MIAMI, Dec. 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Just one week after the federal authorities unveiled the Genesis Mission, a sweeping nationwide initiative to speed up science and innovation by way of quantum applied sciences and subsequent technology superior computing, leaders from Florida’s know-how and enterprise sectors at present introduced the formation of Florida Quantum. This new statewide initiative goals to arrange, entice, and speed up quantum innovation throughout Florida. The announcement befell throughout eMerge Americas’ Tech Basel AI Summit Miami, underscoring Florida’s rising position as a hub for rising applied sciences in a second of renewed nationwide concentrate on quantum pushed innovation.
Matt Cimaglia and Tony Jimenez converse throughout the Florida Quantum announcement at eMerge Americas’ Tech Basel occasion in Coral Gables, Fla., Dec. 3, 2025
The Florida Quantum initiative is co-led by Matt Cimaglia, founder & managing accomplice of Quantum Coast Capital, and Tony Jimenez, managing accomplice of Medina Ventures, in collaboration with the Florida Alliance for Quantum Technology (FAQT), eMerge Americas, and with assist from FloridaCommerce. The effort aligns with federal initiatives underneath the White House’s Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP), the U.S. Department of Commerce, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the U.S. Department of Energy, and the CHIPS Research and Development Office (CRDO), and displays quantum know-how’s designation as a precedence inside the Office of the Under Secretary for Research and Engineering’s Critical Technology Areas.
Operating underneath FloridaQuantum.org, this initiative connects non-public {industry}, and authorities to strengthen Florida’s place in the international quantum panorama. Its mission is to encourage quantum firms to construct in Florida, develop a talented workforce for the quantum period, and diversify the state’s know-how funding portfolio inside this quickly rising ecosystem. The launch builds on the momentum of the third Quantum Beach held this previous October, a gathering that convened main quantum firms, buyers, researchers, and policymakers, signaling that Florida’s quantum exercise is evolving from scattered occasions right into a coordinated statewide motion.
“Florida has long been a launchpad for technological revolutions from the early days of computing to the modern aerospace era,” Cimaglia stated. “With quantum, we’re organizing early to ensure Florida doesn’t just participate, we lead. This initiative will serve as a catalyst for collaboration, capital, and talent across the state.”
Bridging innovation with implementation, Florida Quantum goals to join state and federal efforts whereas fostering funding and workforce growth. “Connecting Florida’s universities, investors, and leading quantum companies with federal and private partners, we’re building a sustainable ecosystem that drives research, with a path to commercialization, and long-term job creation in quantum technologies,” Jimenez stated.
Florida Quantum is prioritizing the creation of actual enterprise alternatives as the catalyst for statewide progress, recognizing that profitable firms drive sooner change in academic techniques and workforce pipelines; a dynamic already unfolding in different states round the semiconductor sector. The initiative will coordinate statewide quantum efforts, have interaction accelerator applications, and construct pathways for capital funding into quantum-focused firms and analysis. At the similar time, it would assist workforce growth, together with early Okay–12 publicity to foundational quantum ideas, to put together for long-term demand. Initially privately funded, the group will function as a coalition whereas creating partnerships with universities, enterprise networks, and federal businesses to enact state laws that can entice main quantum firms and increase Florida’s position in the nationwide quantum financial system.
“Florida Quantum represents a bold step by the private sector to expand and strengthen Florida’s quantum ecosystem, working to compliment the recently launched 15-university Florida Alliance for Quantum Technologies (FAQT) mission,” stated Florida Secretary of Commerce J. Alex Kelly. “By uniting public and private partners across education and the quantum industry, this initiative will support the technologies essential to national defense, cybersecurity, health innovations, financial services, data security and the future of transportation and logistics.”
States like Maryland, Illinois, New Mexico, and most just lately Connecticut have established statewide quantum alliances that function central factors of coordination, giving firms a transparent pathway to have interaction with authorities, analysis establishments, and capital networks. Florida Quantum will comply with an identical mannequin, providing firms a spot to plug into an outlined statewide technique quite than navigating fragmented channels. Participation will sign dedication to a forward-looking, business-ready ecosystem, one that’s policy-aware, industry-connected, and aligned with nationwide priorities. For quantum firms, being a part of this collective means gaining visibility, entry to analysis partnerships, and a voice in shaping Florida’s funding and workforce future.
2025 has been designated the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ2025), marking a worldwide recognition of quantum’s transformative potential. As nations start mobilizing round new requirements, infrastructure, and workforce initiatives, Florida Quantum is working to guarantee Florida is not only aligned with nationwide and worldwide efforts, however positioned to lead them.
The founding members of Florida Quantum symbolize a coalition of leaders throughout sectors together with enterprise executives, educational researchers, nationwide safety consultants, former authorities officers, and pioneers shaping the way forward for the quantum {industry}:
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About Quantum Coast Capital
Quantum Coast Capital is concentrated on advancing the subsequent technology of quantum applied sciences and the folks constructing them. The agency identifies rising alternatives in quantum computing, sensing, and associated superior applied sciences, whereas contributing to the growth of a broader innovation ecosystem by way of analysis, collaboration, and strategic engagement. Learn extra at QuantumCoastCapital.com or comply with us on LinkedIn.
About Medina Ventures
Medina Ventures is a Florida based mostly early-stage, dual-use enterprise capital fund targeted on backing “deep tech” startups, together with AI and quantum applied sciences, that strengthen American competitiveness and safety. Led by skilled founders and operators that pioneered the daybreak of the web, cybersecurity, and cloud computing, the agency companions with formidable founders, drawing on deep technical and company-building experience to assist rework breakthrough concepts into enduring companies.
About eMerge Americas
eMerge Americas is a strategic convener and catalyst for innovation, bringing collectively international enterprises, startups, buyers, and authorities leaders to speed up developments in AI, finance, well being, and nationwide safety. Through year-round programming and its annual international tech convention + expo in Miami, eMerge Americas connects capital, expertise, and concepts to drive impactful progress, strengthen industries, and deliver transformative and rising applied sciences to market. Since 2014, the international tech convention + expo has attracted 20,000+ attendees yearly from over 50 nations and catalyzed billions in enterprise funding.
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