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SandboxAQ

Large Quantitative Models for the real world
Security 📍 Palo Alto, CA Founded 2022
Current Valuation
$5.1B
as of 2025-Q2
UNICORN

IPO Outlookprivate

Is SandboxAQ going public?
No. SandboxAQ is private and has not filed to go public. There is no S-1 on file.
What is SandboxAQ's valuation in 2026?
SandboxAQ is valued at $5.1B as of 2025-Q2, set by its Series E ($450M, Apr 2025). That is the last confirmed mark, not a live price — private shares do not trade continuously.
Has SandboxAQ filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for SandboxAQ.
Who are SandboxAQ's investors?
SandboxAQ's investors include Alphabet, Google, NVIDIA, T. Rowe Price Associates, Eric Schmidt, Breyer Capital and 17 more.
Answers are derived from the roster record shown on this page — filing status, last round and confirmed marks. Where the record is silent, the answer says so rather than guessing.
SandboxAQ is an enterprise SaaS company that delivers AI and quantum technology solutions at the intersection of artificial intelligence and quantum techniques. Spun out of Alphabet in 2022, the company develops Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) that understand and model the physical world to solve complex challenges across biopharma, cybersecurity, materials science, navigation, and financial services.

Company Profile

CEO
Jack Hidary
Founded
2022
HQ
Palo Alto, CA
Employees
342
Total Raised
$950M
Est. Revenue
$90M (2025-Q2)
Growth
Raised over $950M since spinning out of Alphabet in 2022, including $450M Series E at $5.121B valuation in April 2025
Last Round
Series E — $450M (Apr 2025)
IPO Status
Private

Fundraising Status

Series E · $450M · 1y 4mo ago
PrivateTotal raised $950M

Secondary Market

Implied price / share
$21.35
Last round price / share
$17.21
vs last round
+24.1%
Open interest
5
Last round price vs secondary price
Last round vs current secondary price per share$17.21Last round$21.35Current
Secondary price return by period
Secondary market period returns3-month+14.3%6-month+29.2%1-year+38.8%All-time+968%
Implied per-share price from private secondary transactions, as of Jun 2026. This is a point estimate, not a quote — the feed carries no bid, ask or spread, and a secondary print is evidence of what someone paid on that date rather than a live market. Compare across every tracked name →

Latest Funding Round

RoundAmountDateLead InvestorPost-Money
Series E$450MApr 2025

Vertical Intelligence — Biotech / Gene Therapy

No name-verified sponsor record on ClinicalTrials.gov for SandboxAQ — trials may run under a different legal entity, a partner sponsor, or not yet exist. Absence of a registry match is reported as-is, never guessed around.
Checked clinicaltrials.gov as of 2026-08-19. Re-checked weekly.

Talent Signal

Hiring trend
First snapshot
trend accrues with monthly sweeps
Open roles
31
via ashby
Product-build share
84%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
steady
heavy product build — 84% of open roles are product-building functions (engineering/research/product) — 11 of 31 open roles are engineering.
Actively hiring with no tracked executive churn.
Open roles by month
Open roles by month31Aug '26
Open roles by function
Open roles by functionEngineering11Research9Data & ML4Other3Product2Finance & Strategy1Marketing1
product-building   go-to-market / G&A
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, AI Generation EngineSenior Machine Learning Engineer, AI Generation EngineStaff Forward Deployed Engineer, Life SciencesStaff Machine Learning Engineer, AI Generation EngineStaff Forward Deployed Engineer, Life SciencesStaff Forward Deployed Engineer, AQNav
Counted from SandboxAQ's live job board as of 2026-08-17; role functions classified from posting titles. Open-role counts are an activity signal, not headcount. Refreshed monthly.

Founders & Key People

Jack Hidary

Investors

Alphabet · Google · NVIDIA · T. Rowe Price Associates · Eric Schmidt · Breyer Capital · Ray Dalio · Marc Benioff · Thomas Tull · Yann LeCun · BNP Paribas · Horizon Kinetics · Guggenheim Investments · Alger · Paladin Capital · S32 · TIME Ventures · IQT · US Innovative Technology Fund · First Light Capital Group · Section 32 · Parkway Venture Capital · Leclercq American Capital

Products

  • AQtive Guard
  • AQNav
  • AQChemSim
  • AQBioSim
  • AQAffinity
  • AQMed
  • Large Quantitative Models (LQMs)

Competitors

IBM Quantum · Quantinuum · PsiQuantum · IonQ · QuSecure · Keyfactor
AIQuantum ComputingEnterprise SoftwareSaaSCybersecurityPost-Quantum CryptographyDrug DiscoveryBiopharmaQuantum SensingMaterials ScienceFinancial ServicesNavigationQuantitative AI
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2025-Q2. Refreshed quarterly.