Dorit Dor (QBeat Ventures): What cybersecurity’s rise teaches quantum go-to-market

Yuval Boger interviews Dorit Dor, co-founder of QBeat Ventures and former senior executive at Check Point. They discuss lessons quantum startups can draw from the evolution of cybersecurity, including the importance of go-to-market strategy, focus, and adherence to standards. Dorit outlines her fund’s cross-stack investment strategy, compares different quantum modalities, comments on public market dynamics, and highlights the growing Israeli quantum ecosystem and its potential for future impact. Yuval: Hello Dorit, and thank you for joining me today. Dorit: Hi, and thank you for inviting me. Yuval: So who are you and what do you do? Dorit: My name is Dorit Dor. I spent 30 years in leadership C-level roles at Check Point, where I managed R&D, delivered product, managed the M&A, and some of the growing business units. Before that, I did deep tech leadership roles in a famous 8200 unit related to the IDF, and I did a PhD in computer science, theoretical computer science, mainly algorithms that are relevant for our story. So I spent my career deep diving into very hard problems and solving hands-on some of them. I then also joined the Technion Council, etc. A few years ago, two years ago actually, I made…