Filed by D-Wave Quantum Inc.
Pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act of 1933
and deemed filed pursuant to Rule 14a-6
under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Form S-4 File No. 333-263573
Subject
Company: DPCM Capital, Inc.
(Commission File No. 001-39638)
D-Wave Expands Global 2000 Customer Base
New Use Cases Accelerate Commercial Customer Acquisition & Adoption
PALO ALTO, Calif. & BURNABY, B.C. (July 28, 2022) D-Wave Systems Inc. (D-Wave), a leader in quantum computing systems, software, and services, and the only company building both quantum annealing and gate-based quantum computers, announced that it has added a number of
customers, including Forbes Global 2000 customers, to its portfolio and increased diversity in its commercial use cases.
New customers working
with D-Wave on quantum hybrid use cases include Deloitte, Koç Holding, CaixaBank, CoSyne Therapeutics, and Qcenter/SKK University.
In addition to a growing customer base, new use cases are being explored across manufacturing, logistics, financial services, autonomous driving, and life
sciences utilizing quantum hybrid technologies. Applications include 3D bin packing of shipping containers, vessel logistics optimization, optimum pricing, employee scheduling in airports, dynamic body-shop scheduling, minimizing investment while
keeping risk consistent in hedge funds, portfolio optimization, supply chain optimization, autonomous driving simulation, and simulation of therapeutics for cancer treatment.
We are at an interesting inflection point in the evolution of quantum computing. Increasingly, were seeing large enterprises, and ground-breaking start-ups, begin to explore and embrace the power of quantum computing for their most complex use cases, said Mark Snedeker, senior vice president, Growth, at D-Wave.
We are honored to work with such leading-edge brands and are excited to work with them to move their ideas into action by helping them build in-production quantum applications.
Enterprises that are ready to get started building in-production quantum hybrid applications can sign up for the D-Wave Launch program, a quantum jump-start program for businesses. Bringing together a team of applications experts and a robust partner community, the D-Wave Launch program provides support to help identify the best applications and to translate businesses problems into hybrid quantum applications. The extra support helps customers accelerate designing,
building, and running their most important and complex applications, while delivering quantum acceleration and performance.
About D-Wave Systems Inc.
D-Wave is a leader in the development and delivery of
quantum computing systems, software, and services, and is the worlds first commercial supplier of quantum computersand the only company building both annealing quantum computers and gate-model quantum computers. Our mission is to unlock
the power of quantum computing today to benefit business and society. We do this by delivering customer value with practical quantum applications for problems as diverse as logistics, artificial intelligence, materials sciences, drug discovery,
scheduling, cybersecurity, fault detection, and financial modeling. D-Waves systems are being used by some of the worlds most advanced organizations, including NEC Corporation, Volkswagen, DENSO,
Lockheed Martin, Forschungszentrum Jülich, University of Southern California, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. With headquarters and the Quantum Engineering Center of Excellence based near Vancouver, Canada,
D-Waves U.S. operations are based in Palo Alto, Calif. D-Wave has a blue-chip investor base that includes PSP Investments, Goldman Sachs, BDC Capital, NEC Corp.,
Aegis Group Partners, and In-Q-Tel.
Important Information About the
Proposed Transaction between D-Wave and DPCM Capital, Inc. (DPCM Capital) and Where to Find It:
A
full description of the terms of the transaction between D-Wave and DPCM Capital is provided in a registration statement on Form S-4, as amended, filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) by D-Wave Quantum Inc., a newly formed company that will be the parent company of D-Wave and DPCM Capital, that
includes a prospectus with respect to the combined companys securities, to be issued in connection with the transaction and a proxy statement with respect to the stockholder meeting of DPCM Capital to vote on the transaction. D-Wave Quantum Inc. and DPCM Capital urge investors,