Infleqtion Brand Guidelines: ColdQuanta’s 2022 Rename, Neutral Atoms & a 2026 NYSE Listing

Cold atoms out of a Boulder laboratory.

Infleqtion began in 2007 in Boulder, Colorado, under the name ColdQuanta. The company says it was founded that year; Venture Partners at CU Boulder, the University of Colorado Boulder’s commercialisation office, wrote in September 2025 that it “spun out of CU Boulder as ColdQuanta.” Its founder is the physicist Dr Dana Anderson, a fellow of JILA, the joint research institute in Boulder, and a professor of physics at the university, who remains with the company as founder and chief science officer.

The university traces the company to a turn in Anderson’s research. “I started to do atoms instead of photons,” he told Venture Partners, describing a shift from work with light to work with atoms. Infleqtion’s own account describes the company growing from research in ultracold-atom technology into a commercial quantum business.

Anderson’s background is in academic physics. The company says his work over four decades ran from early involvement in the LIGO gravitational-wave project to optical neural networks, ultracold-atom systems and precision measurement, and that he is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of both Optica and the American Physical Society. Venture Partners counts Infleqtion as the University of Colorado Boulder’s tenth “unicorn” spin-out, a group that also includes Amgen, Ball Aerospace & Technologies, Solid Power and SomaLogic.

For most of its first fifteen years the company worked under that name. In 2022 it added software: English Wikipedia records that Super.tech, a quantum software company co-founded in 2020 by the computer scientist Frederic Chong, was acquired that year by the company, then still known as ColdQuanta. Super.tech’s co-founder Pranav Gokhale is now Infleqtion’s chief technology officer, according to the company.

Neutral atoms for computing and sensing.

Infleqtion works with neutral atoms and, the company says, uses the same base technology for two kinds of product. Its quantum computers use atoms as qubits; its sensors use the same atomic properties for timing, navigation and radio-frequency measurement.

The company names its ranges. Sqale is its full-stack neutral-atom quantum computer. Infleqtion says an operational Sqale system with 100 physical qubits is installed at the UK’s National Quantum Computing Centre, and that a further system is planned for 2027 in Illinois. Superstaq, the software platform that grew from Super.tech, optimises circuits for its hardware through Cirq and Qiskit workflows, the company says. The company says current Sqale systems pair more than 100 physical qubits with all-to-all connectivity and individual gate addressing. Tiqker is an optical atomic clock, and the company also sells RF receivers under the Quantum Spectrum name, inertial and gravity sensors, and “quantum cores” for research.

On 30 October 2026, Infleqtion said it had run a Tiqker clock continuously for two weeks aboard the US Navy support vessel RV Merlin off Southern California, during the Maritime Big Play Pacific exercise, as a test of timing independent of satellite navigation. The company lists the US Department of War, NASA and the UK government among users of its systems, and describes several collaborations with NVIDIA.

The company has spread well beyond Boulder. It says its headquarters is now in Louisville, Colorado, with further US operations in Boulder, Chicago and Madison, a UK quantum innovation centre in Oxford and a location in Melbourne, Australia.

Quantum hardware and identity.

Quantum computing companies sell machines that few customers will ever see, so their pictures carry much of the explaining. The most familiar image is the dilution refrigerator: a tiered, gold-coloured structure of plates and cables that looks a little like a chandelier when its outer casings are removed. Rigetti’s website, for one, walks visitors through such a refrigerator, naming the gold-plated copper plates that separate its temperature stages.

Each hardware approach has its own pictures. Companies that trap ions or neutral atoms tend to show vacuum chambers, laser tables and optical benches, often lit so that the beams and windows glow; makers of superconducting and silicon devices show chip close-ups and wafers, frequently under blue or violet light. Photonic companies show the optical chips and fibres that carry their qubits. Alongside the hardware come people: physicists and engineers at racks of control electronics, oscilloscopes and laptops.

Because qubits themselves cannot be photographed in any ordinary sense, the sector also leans on abstraction. Renderings of glowing spheres, lattices, interference patterns and waves stand in for superposition and entanglement, and dark backgrounds with points of coloured light are common across websites, investor presentations and conference stands.

Those conferences are part of the visual record too. IEEE Quantum Week, whose 2026 edition its organisers set in Toronto, gathers researchers and engineers around technical papers and workshops, while Q2B, which lists 2026 meetings in Tokyo, Copenhagen and Chicago, presents itself as a place to connect quantum technology with business. This guide sets out what can be checked about each company — who founded it, who owns it and where its machines are built — and marks clearly what rests only on the company’s own word.

A new name in 2022, a listing in 2026.

The name changed on 30 November 2022. In a press release from Boulder, reprinted by The Quantum Insider the next day, ColdQuanta announced it was launching a new corporate brand and name, Infleqtion, to reflect a focus on commercial quantum products. The release said the brand was “built on 15 years of pioneering quantum research” and that Infleqtion would be the parent brand to both ColdQuanta and Super.tech. The company describes the change today as reflecting its move from a cold-atom foundation into quantum computing, sensing and software.

The company then went public through a special purpose acquisition company. In September 2025, Infleqtion and Churchill Capital Corp X, a Nasdaq-listed SPAC, announced a definitive business combination agreement, Venture Partners at CU Boulder reported. The merger closed in February 2026: The Quantum Insider reported on 17 February 2026 that the combination was complete, that Churchill X had delisted from Nasdaq, and that Infleqtion’s shares and warrants would begin trading that day on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbols INFQ and INFQ WS. Infleqtion described itself at the time as the first publicly listed neutral-atom quantum technology company.

Leadership has changed along the way. The 2022 rename was announced under chief executive Scott Faris; the company says Matthew Kinsella, a board member since 2018 and previously a venture investor, has been chief executive since April 2024. The ColdQuanta name has given way to Infleqtion across the business, and the company’s website is infleqtion.com.

For a design guide, Infleqtion shows how a research spin-out can rename itself to present several product lines under one parent brand. Compare Pasqal, another neutral-atom quantum company, and Nvidia, a collaborator on its quantum computing work. For this guide we use a cold indigo, a pale frost and a soft teal with a technical grotesque sans, an unofficial interpretation; no product or logo is reproduced.

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