# UMD Discovery Fund

> UMD Discovery Fund is a VC fund backing Computer, Hardware and Manufacturing. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://innovate.umd.edu/resources/discoveryfund

UMD Discovery Fund is an early-stage investment fund established to promote the growth and establishment of University of Maryland-created or sponsored technology enterprises in Prince George's County, Maryland.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Computer | 1 | 100% |
| Hardware | 1 | 100% |
| Manufacturing | 1 | 100% |
| Quantum Computing | 1 | 100% |
| Industrial Manufacturing | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| QC82 | Co-founders of QC82 have established cluster-state entanglement for CVQC implementations, manufactured quantum photonic circuits with 40 entangled modes, and created low-noise single-photon detectors at telecom wavelengths. To overcome fault tolerance and enable practical QC applications, we are creating room-temperature photonic chips with on-chipphoton number-resolving detectors. | $1.5M | Convertible Note | Dec 30, 2025 | https://www.qc82.tech |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Black Lotus Quantum Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/black-lotus-quantum-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [TEDCO](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maryland-technology-development-corporation) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Qubits Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/qubits-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Tensor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tensor-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Transpose Platform Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ti-platform-management) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does UMD Discovery Fund invest in?

UMD Discovery Fund invests primarily in Computer, Hardware and Manufacturing startups, most often at Convertible Note stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Colombia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did UMD Discovery Fund last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for UMD Discovery Fund closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 1 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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