Ecosystem

OVERVIEW

We believe the most effective venture investors contribute more than capital. Serendipity Capital has built a differentiated platform that combines investment expertise with technical capability, strategic relationships, and operational experience to identify, support, and scale category-defining companies.

Proprietary ecosystem

Every relationship is put to work across four functions:

Networks & market
intelligence

Deal sourcing

Due dilligence

PORTFOLIO VALUE CREATION

Shareholders

c. 130 investors; ~94% owned by Five Eyes nationals across technology, government and financial services.

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Senior Advisors

World class advisors from technical, scientific and commercial backgrounds informing our view.

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Portfolio Companies & Founders

Leaders building and scaling critical technolgies at the fronteir.

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Emergence Quantum

Embedded engineering capability: Our strategic investment partnership give us access to 25+ world-class scientists and engineers

Embedded technical capability
(Emergence Quantum)

Emergence Quantum differentiates Serendipity Capital’s investment platform versus its peers, providing something fundamentally different from a traditional advisor network: embedded technical capability. Through our strategic investment partnership, we have access to a specialist R&D platform working at the heart of quantum hardware, cryogenic computing, semiconductors, and next-generation computing systems.

This capability provides enormous value to both our investors and founders alike, enhancing how we source opportunities, evaluate complex technologies, and support portfolio companies facing critical engineering challenges.

Proprietary Origination

Early visibility into emerging companies, technologies, and opportunities across the quantum and next-generation computing ecosystem.

Technical Diligence

Specialist engineering input to help evaluate complex technologies, technical roadmaps, and execution risk.

Portfolio Support 

Access to deep technical expertise to help portfolio companies address critical engineering challenges as they scale.

Leading market insight

Direct insight into customer requirements and technology roadmaps from work with leading global quantum and technology companies.

National security Ecosystem

World class national security bench

key individuals

Alex Fox

Senior Advisor

Former Managing Director, UK National Security Strategy Investment Fund. Former Deputy Chief of Assessments, Joint Intelligence Organisation.

Alasdair Gordon

Senior Advisor

Former Australian foreign intelligence service, roles within the Organisation included Deputy Head and a period as Acting Head. Currently Group CEO of Ecosse Global.

Laurence Lee

Independent Non-Executive Director

Former Second Permanent Secretary, UK Ministry of Defence. Senior Advisor to the CEO of Palantir.

Gaven Smith

Senior Advisor

Former Director General for Technology and CTO at GCHQ (UK). Chair of the Board of Trustees at National Signals Intelligence and Security Trust.

Tom Sylvester

Senior Advisor

Former Deputy Director for Operations, CIA. Former U.S. Navy SEAL.

Critical technology
ecosystem
(highlights)

Institutional leaders who spent their careers running the businesses that buy solutions that enhance and secure critical technologies;
Founders who build the fronteir tech and solutions that serve them;
Scientific and Engineering experts that solve the impossible and enable innovation at scale.

Emergence Quantum

EQ is a leading quantum infrastructure R&D platform. Our ~22% shareholding and strategic partnership gives us access to 25+ world-class scientists and engineers.

David Reilly

Co-Founder and CEO

Ex-Head of Microsoft's Australian Quantum Hub (2014-2017), leading readout/control programme and development of their cryo-CMOS chip
Co-founded QDevil; acquired by Quantum Machines in 2022
Professor, School of Physics, University of Sydney
PhD in Physics, University of New South Wales; Postdoctoral Fellow,Harvard University

Thomas Ohki

Co-Founder, CTO and CSO

Ex-Quantum Engineering Site Lead, Microsoft Quantum
Previously co-founded and led the Quantum Engineering & Computing Group at Raytheon BBN (2008-2022); deep expertise serving defence and national security customers
PhD in Physics, University of Rochester; Postdoctoral Fellow, Chalmers University of Technology

Leonard Sanderson

Principal Hardware Engineer, Architecture & Logic Design

Previously Principal Hardware Engineer, Microsoft Quantum
35+ years of experience across semiconductors and supercomputing, including 13 years leading teams at Intel and Cray
BSEE, University of Washington, Seattle

Arnaud Bousquet

Principal Hardware Engineer, Semiconductor Device
Characterization

Previously Semiconductor Device Modelling Engineer at Microsoft
20+ years of experience working in silicon foundries
MS in Applied Physics, University of Montpellier

Alireza Moini

Principal Hardware Engineer, CryoCMOS ASIC Design

Previously Principal Quantum Hardware Engineer, Microsoft Quantum
20+ years leading semiconductor R&D and ASIC engineering across holography, advanced sensing, and quantum control/readout
Granted 200+ patents; Author of Vision Chips
PhD, University of Adelaide

Shareholders

Gabriela Styf Sjöman

MD, Research & Commercialisation, BT Group

30+ year global executive experience in the ICT industry
Previously Group Chief CSO, Nokia; VP, COO, Head of Group Networks, Telia; VP of Engineering Telecom Italia; VP of Product at Ericsson
MBA, Durham University; MA, King's College

Gaven Smith

Senior Advisor, Serendipity Capital

30+ years of technology leadership and national security experience across the UK Civil Service
Previously Director General for Technology and CTO at UK GCHQ, where he led the research, development, and investments into a broad range of UK national security related technologies and capabilities
Professor of Cyber Security, University of Manchester; Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering

Andrew Farmer

Founder and CEO, Ikigai Digital

25+ years leading digital and technology strategy across global organisations
Previously CIO, Mox Bank; Executive GM & CIO, IFS, at CBA; VP at BP
BSc, University of Manchester

Andrew Briggs

Chair of Nanomaterials, University of Oxford

24+ years of leadership and research across quantum technologies and nano scale thermodynamics at the University of Oxford
Previously Director of the UK Interdisciplinary ResearchCollaboration in Quantum Information Processing (2002-2009)
Executive Chair and Co-Founder, QuantrolOx
PhD, University of Cambridge

Douglas Paul

Chair, Royal Academy of Engineering in Emerging Technologies, University of Glasgow

18+ years of leadership and research across quantum, semiconductors, and nanofabrication at the University of Glasgow
Principal Investigator at the UK Hub for Quantum Enabled Position Navigation and Timing; Partner, Integrated Quantum Network Hub
PhD, University of Cambridge

Portfolio Founders

Timothy Day

Founder, Chairman and CEO, Monarch Quantum

Pioneer in the field of photonics with 35+ years across engineering, product development, and operations
Previously co-founded Daylight Solutions, specialising in ruggedised photonics for defence and aerospace; subsequently acquired by Leonardo DRS, where he served as SVP and GM at DRS Daylight
Ex-Board Member, Infleqtion
PhD, Stanford University

Scott Edington

Founder and CEO, Deep Labs

Pioneer in World Model AI architectures and Large Signal Models, with applications dominating national security and mission-critical environments
Previously Global Head of R&D at Visa, where he founded and led Visa Labs; Ex-Head of Technology Injection Programs at Booz Allen, where he deployed advanced signals intelligence at scale
MS, Johns Hopkins University

Ilyas Khan

Founder, Vice Chairman, and CPO at Quantinuum

Leader in the quantum computing field; founded Cambridge Quantum Computing in 2014; merged with Honeywell Quantum Solutions to form Quantinuum in 2021
Previously Chairman and Trustee of the Stephen Hawking Foundation
Ex-Fellow and Leader in Residence at the University of CambridgeJudge Business School; Ex-Fellow at the University of Cambridge, St Edmund's College
BA, University of London SOAS

Andre Luiten

Co-Founder and CEO, QuantX Labs

Leader in precision timing and quantum sensing technologies, with 25+ years spent across industry and academia
Chief Innovator at the Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing
PhD, University of Western Australia

Boudewijn Wijnands

Founder and CEO, Fortaegis

Leader in the ultra-secure semiconductor field; second-time founder with 10+ years of building and scaling mission-critical technology for governments, defence, and critical infrastructure operators
Member of DenkWerk, a leading independent Dutch think tank
MS, University of Oxford

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Shareholders

Senior Advisors

Portfolio Companies & Founders

Emergence Quantum