Early investor reacts to IQM’s $1.8bn IPO plans: ‘SPACs are re-emerging as a more refined tool’
25 feb. 2026
12:46
Earlier this week, quantum company IQM announced its plans to go public at a reported $1.8bn valuation via a SPAC merger.
"There was a period when SPACs were extremely trendy, and then their reputation declined. Now, I think we’re seeing them re-emerge as a more refined tool," Daria Saharova, founding partner at World Fund, one of IQM’s earliest backers, tells Impact Loop.
"There was a period when SPACs were extremely trendy, and then their reputation declined. Now, I think we’re seeing them re-emerge as a more refined tool," Daria Saharova, founding partner at World Fund, one of IQM’s earliest backers, tells Impact Loop.
IQM is set to become Europe’s first public quantum computing company – and the first exit for World Fund.
World Fund led IQM’s €128m Series A in 2022 in what was the Berlin-based fund’s first major investment after its launch a year prior.