In 1984, John Gage of Sun Microsystems predicted that "the network is the computer", that computing power wouldn't live in any single box but would be distributed across interconnected systems. That vision shaped client-server architecture, the internet and cloud computing. 

The modern compute landscape is a patchwork of hardware, CPUs, GPUs, and classical HPC clusters. The network may be the computer, but nobody's built the nervous system to make it “think” as one. 

That's why we've led Qoro Quantum's pre-seed round.

We think a lot about what comes after the current AI wave. LLMs are transformative but limited in that they carry training biases and remain prediction engines at their core. The next frontier demands different approaches: reinforcement learning, neurosymbolic AI and hybrid quantum classical methods for problems where LLMs hit a wall.

Qoro is building the layer that finally makes the network behave like one computer.

What does Qoro do?

Qoro builds the infrastructure glue for heterogeneous computing networks. The platform treats CPUs, GPUs, HPC clusters and quantum processors as one logical machine, coordinating workloads in real time, abstracting away complexity, and letting developers build once and execute everywhere. What required 150,000 lines of integration code becomes 20. The company runs a two-tier model: Solo, a self-serve cloud platform for developers, and an enterprise tier for high-value workloads at scale.

Why does Qoro fit the Ada thesis?

The team. Dan Holme (CEO) has 20+ years leading large-scale systems and networks, including at Cisco. Stephen DiAdamo (CTO) holds a PhD in distributed quantum computing, and initiated important protocol design in Cisco's research division. Before their pre-seed, they'd already secured validated enterprise pilots and a working product proving demand in production, not slide decks.

The thesis fit. Qoro sits within our economic empowerment theme. Every computing paradigm shift has produced an infrastructure layer that democratised access. Qoro can do the same for hybrid quantum computing.

Where value accrues. Middleware captures more value than hardware across every computing era. Billions are going into quantum processors, but the software layer that makes them usable barely exists. Qoro is a quantum software company, not a hardware company, and that distinction matters.

Looking forward

As enterprises adopt hybrid quantum classical workflows between 2026 and 2028, orchestration middleware becomes operationally essential. Comparable platforms represent markets in the tens to hundreds of billions. Qoro could be one of the first quantum companies serving real enterprise customers at scale.

Forty years ago, Gage saw that computing was distributed. The hardest part was never connecting the machines — it was making them work together That's what Qoro is building, and we're thrilled to back Dan and Stephen. 

“The AI infrastructure race is white-hot, but raw compute alone isn't enough — you need the orchestration layer that makes it deployable. Anyscale proved this for classical AI: Ray became the connective tissue that let companies run distributed workloads across heterogeneous compute without drowning in infrastructure complexity. Qoro is building the equivalent for quantum. Dan and Stephen came out of Cisco with the networking DNA to see exactly what's missing — a broker layer that makes quantum and hybrid compute actually usable across real-world enterprises. This is the Anyscale moment for quantum, and we wanted to be in early.”  

— Matt Penneycard, Founding Partner, Ada Ventures

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