About Alchemist Accelerator: Influencer Series Fireside Chat
The Influencer Series Fireside Chat, hosted by Alchemist Accelerator Founder & CEO Ravi Belani, offers intimate, high-energy conversations with influential leaders. Prominent VCs, startup founders, corporate executives, and academics come together for authentic, unscripted "dinner table" dialogues. After a decade connecting 4,000+ leaders and sparking 15,000+ influential relationships, the Influencer series now invites you to join the conversation.
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Commercial Quantum Use Cases Are Closer Than You Think: What Happens When Quantum Enters the Real World
Quantum computing has been promising to change everything for decades. BlueQubit might be the company that finally makes that promise real.
Hayk Tepanyan is the Co-Founder and CTO of BlueQubit, an Alchemist company built by Stanford computer scientists who left Google to solve one of the hardest problems in deep tech. Their mission is simple to say and incredibly hard to do: make quantum computing genuinely useful.
In this episode, Ravi Belani, Founder and Chairman of Alchemist, sits down with Hayk to unpack a breakthrough that happened just months ago and what it actually means for the future of the technology.
They get into:
What BlueQubit's "scientific quantum advantage" actually is, and why it matters that it uses real world inputs rather than problems pre-designed for quantum
How BlueQubit solved in 2 hours a problem that would take the world's largest supercomputer years to crack
The two-stage roadmap from scientific quantum advantage to commercial quantum advantage, and why Hayk believes commercial is only 2 to 3 years away
Why the quantum version of the ChatGPT moment will look completely different from what happened with AI
How quantum will affect billions of people indirectly, through new drugs, new materials, and better batteries, before most people even know it's happening
Why quantum teleportation is already happening, just not at human scale yet
What laser focus actually means as a founder, and why having ideas you choose not to pursue is a sign of discipline not distraction
Why scientists are the worst people to ask about 50-year predictions
This is one of the most grounded and genuinely exciting quantum conversations we have had on this show. No hype, just a builder who is deep in the work and quietly changing what is possible.
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21 May 2026
Why Cheap Energy Is the Foundation of Human Prosperity
What do synthetic neurobiology, an alcohol company sold out of a car, the Department of Energy, and a pesticide-killing RNA startup have in common? They're all stops on Nico Enriquez's path to becoming one of the most interesting VCs in deep tech.
As a Principal at Future Ventures, the fund behind SpaceX, Tesla, and Commonwealth Fusion Systems, Nico backs founders solving the world's biggest problems with genuine technological breakthroughs. In this conversation with Ravi Belani, Chairman and Founder of Alchemist, he shares what that actually looks like in practice, why cheap energy is the foundation of everything, and why the most inspiring founder he knows spent 17 years building something nobody thought was possible.
If you care about where the world is headed and who's funding the people trying to fix it, this one is for you.
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7 May 2026
The Quantum Moment Is Coming: Here's What Founders Need to Know Before It Does.
Everyone is talking about quantum computing. Almost nobody actually understands it. Tommaso Demarie is going to change that.
Tommaso is the Co-Founder and CEO of Entropica Labs, a company building the error correction infrastructure that sits at the very heart of making quantum computing actually work. He has a PhD in quantum information systems, nearly two decades in the field, and the rare ability to explain one of the most complex technologies in the world in a way that clicks.
In this episode, Ravi Belani, Chairman and Founder of Alchemist (formerly CEO), sits down with Tommaso for a conversation that starts with the basics and ends somewhere you didn't expect.
They get into:
- What quantum computing actually is, explained in a way that finally makes sense.
- Why some of the world's top researchers still don't believe it will ever be useful.
- The 1940s computer parallel: why the killer app for quantum hasn't shown up yet, and why that's completely normal.
- Whether quantum has its own version of Moore's Law (it does, and it's moving faster).
- Why quantum error correction is the single biggest roadblock between where we are and where we need to be.
- The "fault-tolerant chasm": what it is, why it matters, and what Entropica is doing to cross it.
- Where the real opportunities are for founders building in quantum right now.
- Why governments are still the primary buyers, and what that tells us about where the market is headed.
- Why Tommaso is an optimist even when people push back on the dystopian case.
Rigetti Computing went through Alchemist over a decade ago. It's now a multibillion dollar public company. Entropica might be next. This conversation is worth paying attention to.
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