Following Tar Heel recruiting in 2026 feels like refreshing Crunchbase. New commit, counter-offer, portal flip, repeat. Somewhere Dean Smith is asking for a term sheet.
Congrats to @sygaldry_tech on their $139M raise!
Chad Rigetti founded Rigetti Computing in 2013, took it public in 2022, and is now back—alongside cofounders Idalia Friedson and Michael Keiser—with a new company asking one of AI's biggest questions: how do we power all these data centers?
Sygaldry is building servers that combine quantum hardware and classical chips to run AI workloads faster than GPUs, reducing the cost and energy needed to run increasingly large models.
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