Long before I became a founder or venture capitalist, I spent a significant part of my academic life in the University of Toronto Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, thinking about signal processing: how do you recover meaningful information from an incredibly weak and noisy signal?

I thought I had left that world behind.

Decades later, through a combination of curiosity, experience, and more than a little serendipity, it brought me back.

One of the biggest bottlenecks in quantum computing isn’t just a physics problem. It’s also one of the hardest signal processing problems ever tackled. That is one of the reasons we at Two Small Fish Ventures are excited to lead Qubic’s seed round.

This investment also feels personal because it brings me back to the engineering problem that launched my career.

Thank you, Professor Elvino Sousa, for inspiring a fascination that, a few decades later, unexpectedly came full circle.

I shared the full story here.