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BosonQ Psi

Semiconductors / Hardware · Syracuse, NY

BosonQ Psi (now operating as BQP) is a Syracuse, NY-based quantum computing software company whose platform leverages quantum approaches for system optimization, physics simulations, and large-scale AI/ML workloads on high-performance computers. Backed by Armory Square Ventures, BQP was named Upstate Capital's venture deal of the year for 2025.

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About Upstate NY

Upstate New York seeded Silicon Valley more directly than most people realize: IBM started in Endicott, GE's research labs sat in Schenectady, and Kodak and Xerox built deep imaging and photonics expertise in Rochester — engineers and ideas from all three migrated west and helped build what came after. Cornell, RPI, the University of Rochester, and the SUNY system now anchor a semiconductor, photonics, and drone corridor that's a direct descendant of that older industrial-research base, not a recent transplant.

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