Insider Brief
- Maybell Quantum announced plans to establish operations at New Mexico’s Roadrunner Quantum Lab, adding cryogenic infrastructure and local jobs to the state’s quantum ecosystem.
- The company will deploy four dilution refrigerators at the facility to provide low-temperature testing capabilities for quantum startups and researchers.
- Maybell joins Qunnect and QuEra Computing as quantum companies contributing infrastructure to New Mexico’s $450 million quantum initiative.
Press release – Maybell Quantum today announced it will establish operations at the Roadrunner Quantum Lab Powered by the State of New Mexico. Maybell will expand into the state with new local hires and a fleet of advanced cryogenic systems capable of reaching temperatures near Absolute Zero. The Colorado-based company becomes the third leading quantum company to anchor the state’s quantum initiative, deploying four dilution refrigerators that give entrepreneurs the hardest-to-source infrastructure they need to test, validate, and scale quantum breakthroughs.
“Too many quantum founders burn years — and millions of dollars — assembling the infrastructure they need to prove their technology works,” said Corban Tillemann-Dick, CEO of Maybell Quantum. “New Mexico is taking a different approach by bringing those resources together in one place. By making Maybell’s dilution refrigerators available alongside control electronics, computing, and networking infrastructure, this initiative lowers barriers to entry and helps promising technologies reach the market faster.”
Maybell’s expansion goes beyond hardware. The company will build a team on the ground at the Roadrunner Quantum Lab (RQL) to drive ecosystem development, support customers, and recruit new tenants. Its dilution refrigerator facilities are engineered to run multiple companies at once, with room for five or more teams and 20 to 30 researchers across dedicated lab environments. Maybell’s cryogenic systems provide the ultra-low temperatures required to create and maintain quantum states in certain materials. This is especially critical for superconducting and spin qubit quantum processors, which need to be cooled to millikelvin temperatures to operate.
“We consistently heard from companies that access to infrastructure and testing sites was the main constraint in commercializing their technologies,” said Nora Meyers Sackett, Director of the Technology and Innovation Office at Economic Development New Mexico. “We are solving this problem by making New Mexico a facilities launchpad for quantum startups. We’re building the infrastructure and bringing companies in around it. These commitments show that our strategy is working.”
Maybell, whose cryogenic systems are trusted by innovators in leading research institutions, startups, hyperscalers, and others around the world, is the third leading quantum company to commit infrastructure to New Mexico under the latest initiative. The company joins Qunnect, which launched the nation’s first open-access quantum network in Albuquerque, and QuEra Computing, which committed a $4 million quantum computing testbed to the RQL. The commitments give founders access to the core equipment needed to develop quantum technologies, from quantum sensors to new qubit architectures. The facility is designed to support five or more startup teams with dedicated space for testing, development, and commercialization.
“We made a promise to New Mexico that if we built the infrastructure, the best quantum companies would follow,” said Adam Hammer, CEO and Co-founder of Roadrunner Venture Studios. “Maybell proves that bet was right. Their commitment, and the commitments of our other partners, show that targeted investment can attract world-class partners and build the next generation of quantum technology right here in Albuquerque.”
In August 2025, as part of the state’s $450 million quantum investment, Economic Development New Mexico committed $25 million to a public-private partnership led by Roadrunner Venture Studios. That partnership established a quantum venture studio and the RQL. Since then, Qunnect, QuEra Computing, and now Maybell Quantum have committed infrastructure to the initiative, while startups, universities, and national laboratories including Aliro, Sandia, Los Alamos, and the University of New Mexico have begun utilizing its resources months before groundbreaking.
With the addition of Maybell, the state-backed quantum lab will now offer a full-stack testing environment for early-stage quantum companies, allowing founders to move from concept to validated technology faster and more efficiently than anywhere else in the world. The facility is expected to open to tenants and the public in the fall.
