Current Report Filing (8-k)
March 26 2020 - 1:50PM
Edgar (US Regulatory)
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): March
26, 2020
QUANTUM COMPUTING INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its
charter)
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Delaware
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000-56015
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82-4533053
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(State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation)
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(Commission File Number)
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(IRS Employer
Identification No.)
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215 Depot Court SE, Suite 215
Leesburg, VA 20175
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
(703) 436-2161
Registrant’s telephone number, including
area code
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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant
is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (17 CFR §230.405) or Rule 12b-2 of the
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On March 23, 2020, Quantum Computing
Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”) and Splunk, Inc., (NASDAQ: SPLK) (“Splunk”) entered into Technology
Alliance Partnership Agreement (the “TAP Agreement”). Splunk’s technology is designed to investigate, monitor,
analyze and act on data at any scale, from any source over any time period. Splunk turns data into doing with the “Data-to-Everything™”
Platform. The Company plans to partner with Splunk to do both fundamental and applied research and develop analytics that exploit
conventional large-data cybersecurity stores and data-analytics workflows, combined with quantum-ready graph and constrained-optimization
algorithms. These algorithms will initially be developed using the Company’s Mukai software platform, which enables quantum-ready
algorithms to execute on classical hardware and also to run without modification on quantum computer hardware when ready.
Once proofs of concept are completed, the Company
and Splunk intend to develop new analytics with these algorithms in the Splunk data-analytics platform, to evaluate quantum analytics
readiness on real-world data. The Splunk platform/toolkits help customers address challenging analytical problems via neural nets
or custom algorithms, extensible to Deep Learning frameworks through an open source approach that incorporates existing and custom
libraries. The initial research efforts under the Technology Alliance Partnership agreement with Splunk will focus on three key
challenges; network security and dynamic logistics and scheduling.
On March 24, 2020, the Company issued a press
release announcing the entry into the TAP Agreement with Splunk. The press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1.
(d) Exhibits.
* filed herewith
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned
hereunto duly authorized.
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QUANTUM COMPUTING INC.
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Date: March 26, 2020
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By:
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/s/ Christopher Roberts
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Name:
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Christopher Roberts
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Title:
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Chief Financial Officer
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