IBM Backs BQP's Physics-Accelerating Platform with $8 Million Investment

IBM Ventures has invested in BQP, a physics acceleration company that's developed a platform called BQPhy. This investment brings BQP's total funding to $8 million and will be used to expand the company's engineering design into operational deployment.

BQP's platform uses AI optimization to resolve full physics within a decision window, utilizing GPU capacity left idle by classical solvers. The platform delivers this through two solvers that share a single SDK, integrated natively into MATLAB as a MathWorks Connections Program partner.

The company has seen significant growth since its 2025 seed round, with contracted and committed revenue increasing eight times, customer base tripling, and platform users growing twenty times. BQP's work is already being used in aerospace and defense, energy, and other industries.