No quantum company named “Doran” checks out — the trail points to Diraq or to Dov Moran’s Quantum Source
Asked:
“Tell me everything you can about Doran the quantum computing company. I wanna know their fundraising and who the investors”
This page draws on 670 live-web extractions of similarly named quantum-computing companies plus one primary profile of Quantum Source. Exact-name searches for “Doran” returned no verifiable company, so no Doran cap table, total raised, valuation or investor roster can responsibly be claimed. Amounts below are US dollars unless noted.
Identity warning: “Doran” is most likely a misspelling or a conflation. The two plausible readings, each with dated, source-linked funding evidence, are shown below. Nothing here is attributed to a company actually named Doran.
Identity decision tree and funding timeline
What the evidence cannot say alone
Diraq’s disclosed equity across the rounds shown totals $55M — a Series A of $20M (2022), a $15M A-2 extension, and a $20M strategic stake from Australia’s National Reconstruction Fund Corporation.
thequantuminsider.comDiraq’s $38M under the CHIPS Act is a letter of intent with the US Department of Commerce — proposed funding, not money received, and excluded from totals.
thequantuminsider.comQuantum Source’s only reported round is a $15M seed co-led by Grove Ventures, Pitango First and Eclipse Ventures; Dov Moran sits on its board — the likeliest source of the “Doran” confusion.
weizmann-usa.orgQuantum Source’s NIS 3M (~$850,000) Israel Innovation Authority award is a two-year government grant, kept separate from equity raised here.
weizmann-usa.org
Which one did you mean? If the company builds silicon spin-qubit machines in Sydney, it is Diraq. If it is the Israeli photonic-processor startup tied to entrepreneur Dov Moran, it is Quantum Source. Confirm and a full deep-dive on that company can follow.
The funding events, row by row
| Candidate | Event | Date | Type | Investors / detail | Source |
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Identity-resolution check built from 670 web extractions of quantum companies with names similar to “Doran” (287 mention Diraq) plus one primary Quantum Source profile dated Jul 2022; duplicated announcements of the same round were collapsed to one event each; amounts are as reported, in US dollars unless noted; rows on other lookalike names (D-Wave, Oratomic and others) were cut as non-matches.