ADVR, INC.
Pulsed source of high-purity entangled photons for free-space quantum networking
- Sector
- Quantum
- Headquarters
- Bozeman, MT
- Founded
- 2020
- Latest Form D
- $3.8M, May 2025
- Total capital
- $26.4M
- Federal grants
- $22.7M
- 36 awards · 2015–2026
- Rank in peer group#1 of 19
- Private capital raised
- $3.8M
- 1 Form D · last May 2025
- 17 months since last filing
- Federal contracts
- None on recordNo federal contract awards found.
- Granted patents
- 0
- 1 pending
Capital timeline
Latest events
- Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Topic AF23C-T002 Topic Title: Waveguide-based, High Power, Electro-optic Frequency Comb For Use In Space Environments$1.9M
- Federal grantNASA · Phase I · STTR Phase I Efficient Narrowband Entangled Photon Sources For Interfacing With Quantum Memory$150K
- Private capital raisedForm D · SEC · 1st filing$3.8M
- Federal grantNASA · Phase II · FY25 Phase II STTR - High-repetition-rate Pump Sources Tailored For High-purity Entanglement Generation$850K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase I · 873AUTHORITY$140K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase I · 873AUTHORITY$240K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase II · STTR II: Develop, Waveguide-based, Pulsed Sources Of Entangled Photons Operating In The 780NM Spectral Regime Along With A Density Matrix-based Description Of The Transmitted Quantum State To Allow Estimates Of Source Performance.$1.2M
Show 30 earlier federal awards
- Federal grantDefense · Phase II · STTR II: Develop Fully Packaged Waveguide-based Biphoton Sources With High Brightness And Ultra-high Heralding Efficiency. Refine Waveguide Processing And On-chip Filtering Towards Deployable, High Heralding Efficiency, Low Swap Systems.$1.2M
- Federal grantDefense · Phase I · SBIR Phase I Award Resultant From SBIR Topic #A244-012$250K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase I · F23C-T002-0011: Waveguide-based, High Power, Electro-optic Frequency Comb For Use In Space Environments$200K
- Federal grantNASA · Phase II · SBIR Phase II - Visible Light Phase And Amplitude Modulators For Quantum Sensors And Clocks$850K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase II · SBIR Phase 1 Contract Award$295K
- Federal grantNASA · Phase II · High Brightness, Waveguide-based IR Quantum Light Sources$850K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase II · 873AUTHORITY$900K
- Federal grantNASA · Phase I · Visible light phase and amplitude modulators for quantum sensors and clocks$150K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase I · High Purity Entanglement Generation Using Complex Domain Engineering$150K
- Federal grantNASA · Phase I · High brightness, waveguide-based IR quantum light sources$150K
- Federal grantNASA · Phase II · High-purity, high-rate, photon pair source for space-based entanglement distribution$750K
- Federal grantEnergy · Phase II · Commercial Production of Low-Loss Quantum Frequency Conversion and Electro-Optical Modulation Devices Enabled by Wafer-Level Processing of Reverse-Proton-Exchange Lithium Niobate Waveguides$1.6M
- Federal grantNASA · Phase II · Tunable Narrow-Band Bi-Photon Source in IR Spectral Region for Calibration of High-Performance Transition-Edge Sensors$750K
- Federal grantEnergy · Phase I · Waveguide-based squeezed light sources$250K
- Federal grantEnergy · Phase I · Optimized source of non-Gaussian states for use in hybrid discrete/continuous variable quantum information processing schemes$250K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Integrated Laser for Trapped Ion Quantum Computers$1.4M
- Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Pulsed ultra-bright photon pair source for synchronization and entanglement swapping$1.5M
- Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Wideband Quantum PIC with Integrated Highly Non-Degenerate Photon Source$1.5M
- Federal grantEnergy · Phase I · Commercial Production of Low-Loss Quantum Frequency Conversion and Electro-Optical Modulation Devices Enabled by Wafer-Level Processing of Reverse-Proton-Exchange Lithium Niobate Waveguides$250K
- Federal grantNASA · Phase I · Enabling Optical Components for Yb Trapped Ion Systems$125K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Robust, compact, high brightness entangled photon-pair source for space applications based on periodically poled nonlinear waveguides$111K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Hybridized Silicon Photonics Circuits for Quantum Information Science$140K
- Federal grantEnergy · Phase I · Low Loss, Highly Nonlinear Waveguides for Transparent Optical Quantum Networks$200K
- Federal grantEnergy · Phase I · Single Photon Frequency Convertor with High Quantum Efficiency$225K
- Federal grantNASA · Phase I · Frequency Agile Seed Laser for Orbital Doppler-Shift Compensation$125K
- Federal grantNASA · Phase II · Polarization Entangled Photon Pair Source for Space-Based Quantum Communication$750K
- Federal grantNASA · Phase I · Utilization of the International Space Station to Verify Photonic Devices for Enhanced Space-Based Atmospheric Profiling$125K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase II · High Fidelity Heralded On Demand Single Photon Source$1.3M
- Federal grantNASA · Phase II · Digital Acquisition and Wavelength Control of Seed Laser for Space-Based LIDAR Applications$750K
- Federal grantEnergy · Phase II · Optical Waveguide Cross-Correlator for Attosecond Timing Synchronization$1.0M
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Federal first
122months
from ADVR, INC.’s first federal award to its first private round.
- First federal award · Apr 2015
- Energy · $1.0M
- First Form D · May 2025
- $3.8M · 1st Form D
- Awards before first raise
- 34 awards
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Standing among 19 peers
Line = medianQuantum · Device
- Federal grants#1 · top 5%
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Founders and team
From SEC Form D filings- Hunter Paul StunziExecutive Officer, DirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings
- Josh Paul DiamondDirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings
What it has protected
USPTO · 0 granted of 1- PendingSystems and Methods of Decentralized Geospatial Data GatheringUSPTOApplication 15696082
Related companies, and why
- APEXQUANTUM, INC.Similar federal contract value in Quantum · null in contracts
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- EigenQ IncSimilar federal contract value in Quantum · null in contracts
- Applied Quantum ComputingSimilar federal contract value in Quantum · null in contracts
- Sygaldry Technologies, Inc.Similar federal contract value in Quantum · null in contracts
Regulatory activity · Quantum
- Eliminating Regulations Establishing Fellowships in Laboratory Standardization and Testing for Foreign CitizensNational Institute of Standards and Technology
- Eliminating Obsolete Marking Requirements for Toy, Look-Alike, and Imitation FirearmsNational Institute of Standards and Technology
- Eliminating Obsolete Regulations Related to the Advanced Technology Program and the Technology Innovation ProgramNational Institute of Standards and Technology
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Sources
Federal grants from SBIR/STTR, NIH, NSF and DoD records. Federal contracts from USAspending.gov. Private capital from SEC Form D. Patents from USPTO. Publications from OpenAlex. Regulatory activity from the Federal Register. Press matched on company name.
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