Selected for IVS2026 Startup Market and named a SPIKES PITCH finalist

QVillager was selected for the practice track of Startup Market at IVS2026, one of Japan's largest startup conferences, where 300 companies exhibit. We were also named one of twelve finalists in SPIKES PITCH, the pitch contest held within IVS.

At the booth and on stage we presented the same question: how do you judge what someone in quantum can actually do, and how does that judgement connect them to work and opportunity? The field collects credentials such as degrees and affiliations, but offers little that makes hands-on ability comparable. That gap is where QVArena starts.

Across the conference we traded views directly with investors and startup people, among them overseas VCs and CVCs focused on deep tech. What they told us about the market, about how the business should unfold, and about the product itself now shapes QVArena's evaluation design and the order in which we are building the MVP.