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A Better GPS Through Quantum Technology
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David Mitlyng • CEO & Board Director
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James Troupe • Chief Quantum Scientist
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Roger Yee • Board Director
Roger's work has been featured in media including the Washington Post, Federal Computing Week, Washington Technology, Government Security News, Washington Business Journal and is a frequent invited panelist at government and industry events. He is a Next Generation Fellow of The American Assembly, Cybersecurity Working Group Chair for Open Source for America, DHS Homeland Open Security Technology (HOST) Council of Peers and a Global CEO Mentor for the Founder Institute.
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the pitch
With Xairos’ global timing service we aim to realize the tech-filled future we all imagine – self-driving cars, delivery drones, flying taxis, 6G terabyte-per-second surfing speeds, and more. This is a future GPS cannot support. Government agencies and network operators worldwide recognize the limitations of GPS and are looking for solutions. Techstars, US Air Force, and NASA believe in the technology and vision being developed by Xairos. Our team and board of advisors are composed of leading quantum, timing, and space experts who can execute on our vision to develop a global timing service that dramatically improves on GPS.
GPS isn’t about maps; it’s about time
Xairos is building a global timing service that represents a disruptive improvement to GPS. Despite its name, GPS isn’t about maps; it’s about time. Most of the world’s networks, financial transactions, and power grids rely on timing from GPS (source). But GPS is a 50-year-old technology that is not nearly accurate or resilient enough for modern networks.
The Problem & Our Solution
GPS is not secure or resilient enough
GPS is currently a single point of failure for networks and power grids (source). Due to its weak radio frequency signal, GPS is highly vulnerable to jamming and spoofing, with hundreds of thousands of local outages reported each year (source). If GPS failed for a sustained period, it is estimated that it would create economic losses per day of $1B in the US and £1B in the UK (source & source).
Security of a timing signal is integral to the infrastructure of the USA and other democracies (source). The quantum properties of the Xairos time signal significantly enhances security and resiliency for governments and critical industries. For example, our highly secure time signal could support Ukraine infrastructure despite Russian interference and consistent efforts to jam GPS over the country.
Importantly, the US Government has recognized this problem and is now in the process of considering options to improve resiliency of national infrastructure and is looking for solutions from the private sector.
GPS is not accurate enough
GPS worked for 4G and even 5G – enabling a multi-trillion industry to take shape (source). However, GPS is limited to an accuracy of 30 nanoseconds and cannot enable future technologies. In contrast, Xairos has picosecond-level accuracy, an over 1,000x improvement.
This enables new technologies that require better timing accuracy than GPS – including for autonomous vehicles, quantum networks, 6G, and more. Once our global timing service is in place, we have the foundation for the future quantum network.
* The US Quantum Satellite is a planned future event, & the Commercial distribution through existing players is a planned future event.
The Market & Our Traction
Xairos is targeting almost a $500B market, including securing contracts from the US government
Since its inception, GPS is estimated to have created over $1.4 trillion in economic benefit and is expected to be almost a $500B market by 2031 (source & source). Timing and synchronization units tied to GPS is already a mature multi-billion dollar market with nearly half a million units sold per year (source).
6G communications, data centers, quantum networks, and self-driving vehicles require more accurate and secure timing in order to be optimized. Xairos can provide a pathway for this technology by allowing companies and governments to synchronize clocks within their networks at a level of accuracy that is >1,000x better than GPS, increasing security and resilience.
We’ve generated market interest
Xairos is ready to build a testbed and start addressing commercial opportunities ahead of launching our first satellite. We’ve identified numerous pilot projects in the United States and Europe for our initial system deployment, and are currently developing material partnerships across the globe.
Our Traction and Achievements
We have already built a proof-of-concept demonstrating that our quantum technology significantly outperforms timing from GPS. Our core technology is covered with two patents and three new provisional patents (and growing). These patents are exclusive and IP is owned or licensed only by Xairos.
Xairos is on pace to continue growing, having closed over $1 million in seed funding, a $250,000 grant from the State of Colorado, and contracts of $500,000 from NASA, US Air Force, and US Navy. Some of our investors include Techstars, Qubits Ventures, Break Off Capital, and Spaced Ventures.
We have strong commercial and research partnerships and are continuing with our technical, commercial, and grant funding partnerships in the US, Europe, and Asia. Our goal is to build, launch and operate America’s first quantum satellite.
Why Invest
Join our mission to enable the next generation of technology
We are on a mission to launch America’s first quantum satellite with our patented technology that will replace GPS and pave the way for future technologies, including 6G, autonomous vehicles, and quantum networks.
GPS cannot advance to support the evolution of technology and applications that are driving human activity. There is already US funding allocated for a GPS replacement (source), with calls to incentivize a commercial replacement so the US military has their own dedicated system (source). In the “New Space” paradigm governments are giving way to the private sector for innovative space technologies - including rockets, imagery, space tourism and stations, and lunar bases. This democratization of space has helped advance society while building strong businesses, as witnessed by SpaceX’s record $140 billion valuation. Now it is GPS’ turn…now is the time for Xairos.
Please join us to enable the advancement of future technologies and protect critical national infrastructure.
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PRESS
GPS is Ripe for Disruption
Looking beyond GPS and examining the present and future of position/navigation/timing (PNT) technology, including dual-use space startups developing satellite constellations that can provide more accurate and more secure PNT than GPS. Xairos is developing next-gen PNT via quantum technology.
Global Timing with Quantum Technologies in Space
Hear all about new satellites that will provide the backbone for quantum clock synchronization – and more! Xairos founder David Mitlyng shares some history, other applications, and why microseconds matter for timing! Listen in or read below to find out what this means, how it works, and why it’s imp
Quantum Communications in Space: A Deeper Dive
Quantum technology is a growing field, and its subset, quantum communications, has many applications within the space industry. On a recent episode of Constellations Podcast, David Mitlyng joined John Gilroy to explain the growing field of quantum communications.
ALL UPDATES
07.09.24
Xairos June 2024 Update
Been a busy first half of 2024 highlighted by new contracts (and sharp uptick in revenue), office, team members, partnerships and opportunities. Some highlights:
- Selected for four new contracts, with another three more in development. Major announcements coming soon!
- Completed a Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for one of these projects.
- Setting up at two new office locations.
- Presented "Quantum Time Transfer for Accurate and Resilient PNT" at the European Navigation Conference.
- Joined Colorado Governor Polis on the 2024 Nordic Investment Mission.
- New partnerships with leading quantum and timing and sync companies.
- Presented at the Rocky Mountain Photonics Summit & Expo.
- Attended the Workshop on Synchronization and Timing Systems.
- Expanded the team.
- Advanced the development of critical elements and new IP with a focus on a practical Alternative PNT system.
The Hierarchy of Needs for the Digital World
How good is good enough?
When it comes to GPS, it depends on who is using it – and how it is being used.
For the most people who use it only to get around, it works fine. This feeds the perception it is good enough.
But for the military and civil aviation, it most definitely is not good enough; check out the news section below. These groups are working hard to develop a “GPS independent” positioning system using sensitive sensors, AI-enabled cameras, and even muons.
But that is not where the real value in GPS lies. Humans care about location – our electronics do not. They care about time.
If there's a Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs for the digital world, timing would be at the base layer, like oxygen is for humans. An accurate and reliable timing reference provides the alignment for coordinated signal processing, buffer read/write, and time-stamping of digital events. Think of it like synchronized lights on a busy road - without it digital traffic grinds to a halt.
To keep our electronics humming smoothly lies a complex timing infrastructure consisting of stable clocks that are synchronized (see below).
But at the headwaters of this timing network is GPS, one reference clock to rule them all.
Without GPS, our networks would grind to a halt: credit cards and ATMS would stop working, communications would degrade and fail, and ultimately power grids would cease to function. We would be sitting in the dark waiting for Mad Max to take over.
Fortunately, there are alternatives in development to take the bullseye off GPS.
07.20.23
LAST CALL!!!!
In my early career in the space industry, I worked at the largest company in the world (at the time): Hughes Space and Comm, part of GM. We built big, expensive satellites for large state-owned satellite operators.
Times have changed! Along came SpaceX and the new space era began. Once a novelty that the "big guys" laughed at, they are now the most valuable private company in the US.
The quantum industry is going through a similar revolution. The movie Oppenheimer describes the incredible scale, and success, of the Manhattan Project. The success of the Manhattan Project changed the dynamics of quantum research forever; government funding for practical quantum physics flowed in, resulting in the second quantum revolution and the development (with initial government funding) of the laser, semiconductor, MRI, and atomic clocks. Now we are in the third quantum revolution where we aren't just harnessing quantum properties, we are creating and manipulating them. Entanglement is the foundation for quantum computers, quantum sensors, and our core technology: quantum timing.
Xairos is the beneficiary of the New Space and Quantum Revolutions. Our technology is advanced and ready to deploy. We have a clear market need: a better GPS to enable self-driving vehicles, delivery drones, 6G, more efficient networks, and the quantum internet.
And we have new contracts and partnerships to announce - so please join our webinar today (Thursday) at 2 pm PT/5 pm ET to learn more. You can join with this link or add to your Google Calendar, Outlook Calendar, or Yahoo Calendar.
Beverage companies come and go, but the Quantum+Space revolution will change the world! So Invest Now to join this revolution before it is too late!
07.19.23
Xairos presentations today and tomorrow!
Have you ever wondered how Xairos' quantum technology works? What separates it from GPS and other GNSS systems? Well then don't miss our Time Appliances Project (TAP) presentation today at 11 am PT = 2 pm ET! TAP is an organization dedicated to providing better timing: "Time is a key element to get the highest efficiency in a distributed system. The performance of a distributed system depends on the synchronization of its elements."
It is available to the public and you can join at this link: https://meet.goto.com/tap, or dial in at +1 877 309 2073 or +1 571 317-3129, Access Code: 565-185-493
And definitely don't miss our Investor Webinar tomorrow (Thursday, July 20) at 5 pm ET, mere hours before we wrap up our StartEngine campaign. You can join directly at this link to join the webinar, but recommend adding to your Google Calendar, Outlook Calendar, or Yahoo Calendar.
This session will cover major and exciting updates about new projects, partnerships, and our fundraising. You do NOT want to miss it!
As we are now hours from leaving the StartEngine platform, we want to thank all of our investors! We have big ambitions so hope you can join us on this journey.
07.18.23
Xairos joins the 400/400 club!
Thank you to all of our investors for hitting a major milestone on StartEngine: over $400K raised from over 400 investors! And we cracked the top 30 "Most Funded" companies on StartEngine, which puts us in pretty impressive company!
Our team is passionate about our mission: to use quantum technology to fundamentally disrupt the 50-year-old GPS. When you consider the life cycle of heritage systems that are prime for disruption, 50 years seems to be a commonplace: some intial (usually government-sponsored) development, then adoption, then it becomes pervasive. People think "oh, it will be around forever" - until something better inevitably comes along. Think radio -> broadcast television -> cable -> streaming. Or, mainframe computers -> PCs -> smartphones. Telegraph -> Telephone -> Cell phone -> Internet. All formerly dominant technologies get a few decades in the sun.
Well, GPS is next. Case in point: the Department of Transportation recently asked for help from industry for "Alternative Means of Navigation Beyond GPS" for Advanced Air Mobility (AAM), stating the obvious "Given that these vehicles are expected to operate in urban, suburban, and remote places, reliable and persistent GPS may not be always available."
Stated another way: if you want that future of flying cars and delivery drones, something new is needed.
Thank you again to our 400+ investors. And if you aren't in that group, there are still a few more days but do not wait - Invest Now!!!!
07.17.23
Join our Investor Webinar today at 5 pm MT!
As our StartEngine campaign winds down we want to give our investors an opportunity to learn about Xairos in a live interactive Zoom webinar. We will give updates on our business, commercialization, technology and fundraising progress and future plans.
We have raised over $2M including $750K from crowdfunding, so it is important that we hold quarterly webinars with the goal of keeping our investors informed. As a warm-up you can check out our previous sessions that covered:
- Q4 2022 Investor Presentation covering:
- Introduction
- What is the Problem?
- Why Timing?
- Isn't GPS Good Enough?
- Isn't GPS Free?
- Surely GPS will Improve?
- So how is Xairos Better?
- What's your Business Model?
- What is the Market?
- What is your Go-to-Market Strategy?
- How many Satellites do you need?
- Why Now?
- Do you have the right Team?
- So What Next?
- What is your Long Term Vision?
- Q1 2023 Investor Presentation covering:
Please click this link to join the webinar today at 4 pm PT = 7 pm ET, or add to your Google Calendar, Outlook Calendar, or Yahoo Calendar. And if you can't make it, there is a make-up session Thursday at 5 pm ET. But don't wait - our campaign ends only a few hours later!
Time is running out to get your own quanta (i.e., minimum piece) of Xairos!
07.14.23
Only 6 Days Left to Invest!
No more extensions! Xairos has raised $750K from over 1000 investors, and is ready to move on to the next stage.
With our initial fundraise we built a successful proof-of-concept - the world's most advanced quantum time transfer device. With this raise we are looking to build towards a future that will use entangled photons to revolutionize GPS in a concept known as SuperGPS. But we don't stop there - a global entanglement network can open doors for a new paradigm in network security, quantum sensors, and even a future Quantum Internet.
With big ambitions comes the need for like-minded partners and a clear path to commercialization. So we will provide insight into this at our Investor Sessions next week:
- Investor Session 1
- Monday, July 17, 2023 at 7 pm ET (4 pm PT)
- Add to your Google Calendar, Outlook Calendar, or Yahoo Calendar
- Investor Session 2
- Thursday, July 20, 2023 at 5 pm ET (2 pm PT)
- Please click this link to join the webinar, or add to: Google Calendar, Outlook Calendar, or Yahoo Calendar
So please join the Quantum Revolution and help us change the world!!
07.13.23
Newsletter: What is Old is New Again
By the end of the 17th century, England had a problem. Their continental rivals were carving up the riches of the new world, and, as a result, held more ships and ports. The English ships couldn’t maneuver around them because they couldn’t figure out their East-West position, which required an accurate knowledge of local time. So they set up the Longitude Act with a cash prize to harness the ingenuity of industry.
Lots of crazy schemes were floated, including a time relay across 600 barges spaced at ten mile intervals. But what if there was fog? What if a pirate took out a barge? The time relay network was too easy to break.
Instead, England developed an network of observatories on coastlines or ports around the world to synchronize marine chronometers on passing ships. It was the world’s first synchronization network, and it propelled their domination of the seas and the rise of the British Empire.
The modern world is even more dependent on accurate time synchronization. All networks, data centers, and power grids rely on a timing signal that starts from global navigation satellite systems (GNSS). But in some ways GNSS suffers from the same problems identified centuries earlier; instead of fog, there are RF jamming devices. Instead of pirate ships, there are anti-satellite missiles.
This has spurred a movement towards resilience through redundancy. Other countries have developed their own GNSS, and the US is now turning to private industry for solutions.
This is the opportunity for Xairos. We can focus on a solution for commercial enterprise users that are already migrating to timing and synchronization units that integrate multiple signals of opportunity. Through this, we also have a system that can be adapted for military and Department of Transportation needs. Not only do we provide resiliency, but our proprietary quantum link provides unprecedented security and accuracy.
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This week's newsletter was inspired by a conversation with a timing and sync partner (hopefully we can announce soon!) that wants to add our signal to their system. They mentioned the 2000 TV movie "Longitude" based on the book of the same name that covers the English government's race to figure out how distribute time for maritime navigation with 1700s technology. This is the same conundrum the US government is in today - they are actively looking for innovative solutions from industry to address the shortfalls of GPS. Other items in the newsletter:
- Our StartEngine campaign is winding down so don't miss your chance to own your own quanta (get it?) of Xairos!
- If you have questions or just a general interest in Xairos please check out one of our upcoming Investor Sessions next week:
07.12.23
Please join our next Investor Session!
We have a lot of exciting updates to share so hope you can join one of our investor sessions next week. These webinars are part of our commitment to keeping our investor community informed of our progress, with two options for flexibility:
- Investor Session 1
- Monday, July 17, 2023 at 7 pm ET (4 pm PT)
- Please click this link to join the webinar, or add to: Google Calendar, Outlook Calendar, or Yahoo Calendar
- Investor Session 2
- Thursday, July 20, 2023 at 5 pm ET (2 pm PT)
- Please click this link to join the webinar, or add to: Google Calendar, Outlook Calendar, or Yahoo Calendar
We will cover our progress over the last quarter, including new projects and partnerships, and a deep dive into our commercialization plans based on an extensive customer discovery.
These sessions are timed (no pun intended!) with the conclusion of our StartEngine campaign, so Invest Now and join the Quantum Revolution to realize a future of self-driving vehicles, delivery drones, 6G networks, and more efficient data centers and power grids!
07.10.23
Our Competitive Advantage Part IV
A big part of our strategy is to smartly leverage government opportunities to help us with our commercial development. We have gotten small business innovation research (SBIR) projects with the US Air Force and NASA, with more in the works. As part of this we have prepared a detailed Commercialization Plan for recent proposals, that includes an intense commercial customer discovery that includes:
- Attending and presenting at major timing and sync conferences, including:
- Workshop on Synchronization and Timing Systems - attended 2020, 2021, and 2022, gave keynote in 2023
- International Timing and Sync Forum – attended 2022, presenting 2023
- Time Appliances Project, presenting July 19
- Precise Time and Time Interval Systems and Applications (PTTI), presenting 2024
- National Space-based PNT Advisory Board, presenting in October
- European Navigation Conference
- Membership with the Open PNT Industry Alliance, Open Compute Project Time Appliances Project, and Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation
- Enlisting industry experts to provide advice, like Emil Olbrich and Nino De Falcis
- Lots of research with reference material:
- European Radio Navigation Plan, 2023
- Economic Benefits of the Global Positioning System (GPS), 2019
- EUSPA EO and GNSS Market Report, 2022
- The GPS Playbook, 2021
- EUSPA Time & Synchronisation User Needs and Requirements, 2021
- An Evaluation of Dependencies of Critical Infrastructure Timing Systems on the Global Positioning System (GPS)
- European Union and United States Cooperation on Satellite Navigation with Focus on Service Resilience
- GNSS User Technology Report, 2020
- The Economic Impact on the UK of a Disruption to GNSS, 2017
- STRIKE3, European Commission H2020 Framework Programme, 2017
A summary of our Commercialization Plan will be presented at our next webinar this Tuesday, July 18, with registration details coming soon.
ENDING SOON!!!! Only ten days left to get your piece of Xairos! Invest now and join the Quantum Revolution!!!! ENDING SOON!!!!
07.07.23
Less than Two Weeks Left to Invest in Xairos!
The World Economic Development Forum has declared that we are "heading towards a Quantum Divide" where quantum technology will “exponentially accelerate the Fourth Industrial Revolution.”
Xairos is on the forefront of this revolution with a system ready for commercialization to disrupt GPS.
We already have projects with the US Air Force, NASA, AFRL, and JPL, with more in the works. But we are most excited about our commercial opportunities. We were invited to present at the Workshop on Synchronization and Timing Systems, International Timing and Sync Forum, National Space-based PNT Advisory Board, Time Appliances Project, QED-C Quantum Marketplace, and Precise Time and Time Interval Systems and Applications (PTTI). We also have some exciting commercial partnerships in development that we will announce soon!
Don’t miss your chance to be part of this revolution - Invest in Xairos now!
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Edward Zawacki
2 years ago
Hello David, I’m interested in Xairos and have enjoyed learning about your company. It’s certainly a vote of confidence getting a Phase II from the Air Force so I clicked on your link to the SBIR-STTR page to learn more. I see you were awarded in 2020 and the page says the contract end date was 11-5-2022. Did Xairos receive the full $1,013,633 that was listed? What were the results of the contract ands were you successful? Is this going to leads to a Phase III? Thanks!! :)
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Richard Koch
2 years ago
Hi, In your latest update, you mentioned that Meta and NVIDIA found that a synchronization improvement of 80x made the distributed database run 3x faster. Is that what Xairos offers, the 80x?
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Darnell Tullock
2 years ago
Hello David Will there be anymore raises? If so will non accredited investors be included?
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Elias Phew
2 years ago
Hello David! I was wondering what your thoughts were on MuWNS technology, and where it fits in the competitive landscape - https://www.livescience.com/technology/communications/cosmic-ray-gps-system-that-tracks-underground-movement-could-change-the-way-we-respond-to-disasters
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Elias Phew
2 years ago
Congratulations on being asked to present at the International Timing and Sync Forum! Looking forward to hearing what comes out of it! 🙏
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Parvin Khosravi
2 years ago
Hi, I have a couple of questions. 1) What happens if you decide to sell your company for $2B, but I as an investor don't want to sell, thinking it is too low of a price. I guess this is a general question about investing in startups. 2) Looks like you will raise around $320K - $340K this round of SE. However, building and sending a satellite into space would probably require many millions of dollars. How do you plan on bridging this gap?
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Ajith Potluri
2 years ago
Hello David any update from yesterday's America's Seed Fund Startup Expo! Thank you
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Jeff Park
2 years ago
Hi - Any business development or sales updates in the last two months? Thanks.
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Jeff Park
2 years ago
Hi - Interesting company. A few questions please. 1. What is your current cash position? Someone else asked this question, but I don't think you actually provided a direct answer. What is your current monthly burn? 2. I believe you need to raise $1mm to execute on your roadmap over the next year. What's the backup plan if you don't raise that amount on SE? Do you have VCs coming into the round? If not, why not? 3. Are there any direct competitors that have built or are building an alternative to GPS? Who are they and what is their progress on their respective products? 4. Can you please provide more details on current pilot programs (what stage, progress to date, results, etc.)? Thanks in advance!
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Richard Koch
2 years ago
Are you working with an Air Force GPS Lead Command and something akin to a GPS Product Improvement Working Group? Is there a program office and Program Element Manager for what you're doing? Is there a "no kidding" GPS replacement program that will go through source selection, or are you it?
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