One of the most interesting funding deals of the fall just happened: the Silicon Valley chip designer NVIDIA invested an undisclosed sum of money in QuEra, a Boston startup that is building quantum computers.

With the announcement last week, NVIDIA joins Google and SoftBank in betting on QuEra — and solidifies QuEra’s spot as the best-capitalized quantum startup in Massachusetts, with more than $275 million raised since it was founded in 2018.

It’s also NVIDIA’s most notable local move since March, when it announced it would set up a new research center in the Boston area, the NVIDIA Accelerated Quantum Computing Research Center. QuEra and NVIDIA plan to collaborate using the new center’s resources, according to a press release last week.

I dropped by QuEra’s offices over the summ

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