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Sumit Kapur (Zapata Quantum): Rebuilding after a failed SPAC to chase quantum utility

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September 14, 2026
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23:31
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My guest today is Sumit Kapur, CEO of Zapata Quantum. We speak about the company’s remarkable phoenix-from-the-ashes story — surviving a quantum winter and a failed SPAC to rebuild as a focused quantum applications company. We discuss Zapata’s partnerships, their landmark cancer research published on the cover of Nature Biotech, and their work on using agentic AI to accelerate quantum resource estimation. Sumit walks us through the quantum journey for enterprises, from Quantum Application Intelligence to Quantum Application Engineering, shares his view on how the challenges in quantum have shifted, and much more.

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Sumit Kapur (Zapata Quantum): Rebuilding after a failed SPAC to chase quantum utility

September 14, 2026
23:31
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Overview

My guest today is Sumit Kapur, CEO of Zapata Quantum. We speak about the company’s remarkable phoenix-from-the-ashes story — surviving a quantum winter and a failed SPAC to rebuild as a focused quantum applications company. We discuss Zapata’s partnerships, their landmark cancer research published on the cover of Nature Biotech, and their work on using agentic AI to accelerate quantum resource estimation. Sumit walks us through the quantum journey for enterprises, from Quantum Application Intelligence to Quantum Application Engineering, shares his view on how the challenges in quantum have shifted, and much more.

Read the full transcript or listen to the episode here.


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