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D-Wave: first enterprise license — a 2-year, $10M deal — signals shift from ~$500K engagements to larger contracts
“It was our first enterprise license. It was a 2-year $10 million deal... up until that point in time, our engagements were running, you know, in the few hundred thousand to high hundreds of thousands of dollars.”
Why it matters
A step-change in deal size and contract model suggests quantum annealing is moving from pilots to committed enterprise spend, a key validation point for the revenue thesis.
Investment implication
Directly bullish for D-Wave (QBTS); rising average contract value could de-risk lumpy quarterly bookings and accelerate revenue scaling.