The thesis
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India has the mission. Maharashtra can build the engine.
The National Quantum Mission gave India ambition. What it did not give India was an engine — the connective tissue that moves a discovery from a lab bench to a procurement order.
That engine is not one accelerator, one fund, or one policy. It is a platform that convenes capital, industry, government and academia at the same table, in the same city, on the same timeline.
QCX is that platform. Mumbai is where it begins.
Chapter 01 · Q Opportunity
The QPU is the headline. The wealth is in the stack.
Most capital is chasing the chip. The real value — $3.5 trillion by 2035 — sits in the ten layers around it: substrates, control electronics, cryogenics, error correction, middleware, applications, talent. Ten strata, one stack.
$3.5T
Market by 2035
10
Layers in the stack
$1B
Ambition into Maharashtra
Chapter 02 · Partners
The room is already half full.
Admirals, central bankers, exchange CEOs, Cleveland Clinic researchers, the founders of Multiverse Computing and Delta.g — the founding circle of QCX is forming around people who have built institutions, not just companies.
Admiral Sir Tony Radakin
Former Chief of the Defence Staff
Dame Julia Hoggett
CEO, London Stock Exchange
Enrique Lizaso
Co-founder & CEO, Multiverse Computing
Chapter 03 · Delivering the ambition
This has been done before.
QCX is not a proposal — it is a delivery model proven in Singapore and across the UK's Department for Business and Trade. Quarterly governance, monthly delivery reviews, an annual public impact report.
$135M+
Raised by alumni of the Singapore anchor programme
60+
UK SMEs landed into Southeast Asia
Chapter 04 · The Launchpad
Mumbai is the founding capital. London is the first runway.
Five execution strands launch out of Mumbai — accelerator, discovery, grand challenges, soft-landing corridor, venture studio. Together they make Maharashtra the first market for the world's most promising quantum startups, and the first runway for India's to scale out.
Maharashtra's Moment
Other states may move first. Maharashtra can move best.
Move first and you make headlines. Move best and you set the standard the rest of India inherits.
Final Call
Build the first quantum city. Then build the network.
QCX begins in Maharashtra. It is designed for the world. Government, industry, investors, universities, founders — the founding circle is open for a finite window.
“Maharashtra: founding capital of QCX and India's global quantum–AI gateway.”