Dorit Dor (QBeat Ventures): What cybersecurity’s rise teaches quantum go-to-market

Yuval Boger interviews Dorit Dor, co-founder of QBeat Ventures and former senior executive at Check Point. They discuss lessons quantum startups can draw from the evolution of cybersecurity, including the importance of go-to-market strategy, focus, and adherence to standards. Dorit outlines her fund’s cross-stack investment strategy, compares different quantum modalities, comments on public market dynamics, and highlights the growing Israeli quantum ecosystem and its potential for future impact.

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Yuval: Hello Dorit, and thank you for joining me today.

Dorit: Hi, and thank you for inviting me.

Yuval: So who are you and what do you do?

Dorit: My name is Dorit Dor. I spent 30 years in leadership C-level roles at Check Point, where I managed R&D, delivered product, managed the M&A, and some of the growing business units. Before that, I did deep tech leadership roles in a famous 8200 unit related to the IDF, and I did a PhD in computer science, theoretical computer science, mainly algorithms that are relevant for our story. So I spent my career deep diving into very hard problems and solving hands-on some of them. I then also joined the Technion Council, etc. A few years ago, two years ago actually, I made a deliberate shift and joined my partner, Maya Netzer, who’s an entrepreneur by herself, to found QBeat Ventures. QBeat Ventures is explicitly and exclusively focused on quantum technologies. We wanted to invest in quantum technologies because we saw it as the next frontier and we were so excited about the opportunity of reinventing the computer. So I think it’s really an exciting moment to deep dive into new topics, see how an industry is growing into something real, and looking forward to exercise everything I learned from cyber.