Landon Downs, CFA
Co-founder and Managing Partner
Landon focuses on deal sourcing and diligence, and assisting portfolio companies on business strategy. He is also co-founder and President of 1QBit, a global leader in the development of hardware-agnostic software solutions across quantum, quantum-inspired, and classical computing hardware platforms, including CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, ASICs, quantum annealers, and gate-model quantum computers. He was also Founding Partner at Agentis Capital, a boutique finance firm that has advised on more than C$25 billion in transactions and provides asset management services to over C$6B of assets. Landon’s accomplishments span a diverse range of leadership roles, from venture investing to co-founding startups, negotiating mergers and acquisitions to advising on some of the largest public-private-partnership infrastructure transactions in Canada. Throughout his career he has advised on the deployment of over C$6 billion of capital. Prior to 1QBit and Agentis, Landon worked at the Macquarie Group in the investment banking division. Landon received a Bachelor of Commerce with distinction from the University of Victoria, is a CFA Charterholder and completed Singularity University’s Executive Program. He participated in the formation of the UN’s AI and Robotics Centre and is a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer. He currently serves as the President and a Director of Acumen Canada (the Canadian arm of Acumen Fund) and the Chair of the board of the Quantum Algorithm Institute in British Columbia.
Peter Ort
General Partner and COO
Pete focuses on fund operations, deal sourcing and diligence, and has invested in dozens of companies and funds over the course of his career. He previously co-founded CurAlea Associates, an award winning firm providing customized software and advisory solutions to asset managers and investors. Previously, Pete was a Managing Director at Karsch Capital and Goldman Sachs, where he was co-head of the Hedge Fund Strategies Group and also worked in private equity and investment banking. Pete received a Bachelor of Arts from Duke University and JD/MBA degrees from New York University. He is a member of the New York and New Jersey State Bars and was a Fulbright Scholar at Nagoya University in Japan.
David Moehring, PhD
Co-founder and General Partner
David focuses on deal sourcing and diligence, and assisting portfolio companies on business and technical strategy. Prior to Cambium, David was the founding CEO of IonQ (NYSE: IONQ), where he led the development of its general-purpose quantum computers. Before IonQ, David was a Senior Program Manager at the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) where he managed a multinational research portfolio, and represented IARPA on the US National Strategic Computing Initiative. Prior to IARPA, David was a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories and an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics. David received his Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Physics from Purdue University and his Masters and PhD in Physics from the University of Michigan. President Barack Obama awarded David with the 2014 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers.
Bill Leszinske
General Partner
Bill focuses on diligence and helping Portfolio Companies grow. He works with founders and their teams on strategy, building organizations, developing product roadmaps and go to market plans. Bill previously spent two years at Cambium portfolio company Groq as VP of Product, Marketing and Software Engineering. Bill also spent ~30 years at Intel where he was a Corporate VP focused on creating new business opportunities and driving business growth. In his last role at Intel, Bill was responsible for strategic and product planning and business development for the Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group and directed Intel’s memory and storage investments. Bill’s other roles at Intel spanned multiple business units including Sales, Client Chipsets, Digital Home, Set Top Boxes, and Atom System on Chip Development, where he helped scale business lines from low hundreds of millions to billions of dollars of revenue. Finally, Bill spent three years at McKinsey as Senior Advisor, working on strategic semiconductor engagements. He received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University. Bill is an avid cyclist and snowboarder.