Michelle McCarthy spent over twenty years in corporate strategy and investments, including more than a decade at Verizon Ventures, where she invested in early-stage technology startups across AI, sensing, robotics, enterprise software, and ad tech, and served on more than a dozen VC- and PE-backed boards. She now advises investor-backed technology companies on capital planning, transaction readiness, and enterprise commercialization strategy.

In her article "Quantum: Exciting, Early, and Investable," Michelle draws on her extensive experience in early-stage technology investing to discuss what venture investors look for in promising startups, and the distinct investment dynamics across quantum hardware, software, and post-quantum security.