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C12, a French quantum computing startup founded by twin brothers, raises $19.4M
C12 is announcing that it recently raised an €18 million funding round ($19.4 million at today’s exchange rate). Originally founded in 2020 as a spinoff from the Physics Laboratory of the École Normale Supérieure, the company has been working on a unique process to create quantum computers based on carbon…
Microsoft and Quantinuum say they’ve ushered in the next era of quantum computing
Microsoft and Quantinuum today announced a major breakthrough in quantum error correction. Using Quantinuum’s ion-trap hardware and Microsoft’s new qubit-virtualization system, the team was able to run more than 14,000…
Multiverse raises $27M for quantum software targeting LLM leviathans
We’re still years away from seeing physical quantum computers break into the market with any scale and reliability, but don’t give up on deep tech just yet. The market for…
Quantum Machines’ next-gen quantum control solution that can scale beyond 1,000 qubits
Tel Aviv-based Quantum Machines today announced the OPX1000, the latest iteration of its quantum controller. Built for large-scale quantum computers, the OPX1000 can control 1,000 qubits and more, well beyond…
Microsoft expects to build a quantum supercomputer within 10 years
Microsoft today announced its roadmap for building its own quantum supercomputer, using the topological qubits the company’s researchers have been working on for quite a few years now. There are…
Tencent backs Singapore’s Horizon Quantum Computing in $18M round
Horizon Quantum Computing’s tools can automatically construct quantum algorithms based on programs written in classical programming languages.
Nvidia teams up with Quantum Machines to combine classical and quantum machines
Nvidia and Quantum Machines, the Israeli startup offering an orchestration platform to controlling and operating quantum processors, today announced the launch of Nvidia DGX Quantum, which combines Nvidia’s Grace Hopper…
UK Spring Budget: Chancellor plans £1M annual AI prize, quantum investments and a new £900M ‘exascale’ computer
The U.K.’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt’s spring budget — delivered on the same day that teachers, transportation workers, civil servants and others were on strike across the country…
QuantWare, the Dutch startup that builds quantum processors for research and commercial usage, today announced that it has raised a €6 million seed round (that’s about $6.33 million) led by…
UK quantum computing startup Quantum Motion raises $50.5M
U.K. quantum computing company Quantum Motion has raised £42 million ($50.5 million) in an equity round of funding led by Bosch Ventures (RBVC), with participation from Porsche, the U.K. government’s…
Two quantum-adjacent technologies — quantum sensing (QS) and quantum communication (Qcomm) — are as important as quantum computing hardware itself since they help make quantum computers function more accurately. A…
Pasqal raises €100M to build a neutral atom-based quantum computer
Pasqal, a Paris-based quantum computing startup, today announced that it has raised a €100 million Series B funding round let by Singapore’s Temasek. In addition to Temasek, existing investors Quantonation,…
Quantum Machines continues to grow in spite of economic uncertainity
Conventional wisdom suggests that a Series B company should be hunkering down right now, cutting costs, weathering the storm, but Israeli startup Quantum Machines is defying this approach as it…
IonQ acquires quantum networking specialist Entangled Networks
IonQ, the trapped ion quantum computing company that went public via a SPAC in late 2021, today announced that it has acquired Entangled Networks, a Toronto-based startup that helps industrial…
IBM wants to scale up its quantum computers to over 4,000 qubits by 2025 — but we’re not quite there yet. For now, we have to make do with significantly…
Liquid Instruments hooks up with $28.5M to upend the engineering testing market with software-defined instrumentation
Engineering innovations are a critical cornerstone in the evolution of technology, but ironically there haven’t been as many innovations in engineers’ tooling itself. Now, a startup called Liquid Instruments that’s…
It’s still early days for quantum computing, but we’re currently seeing rapid improvements in the underlying hardware and software foundations for this new computing paradigm. Just like during the early…
Google’s ‘quantum supremacy’ usurped by researchers using ordinary supercomputer
Back in 2019, Google proudly announced they had achieved what quantum computing researchers had sought for years: proof that the esoteric technique could outperform traditional ones. But this demonstration of…
World Fund joins $128M bet that quantum can deliver climate breakthroughs
World Fund, a newcomer in climate-VC land, is taking the lead in a $128 million round for IQM, with hopes the Finnish quantum computing company will one day deliver carbon…
IBM hopes a new error mitigation technique will help it get to quantum advantage
It felt like for a long time, the quantum computing industry avoided talking about “quantum advantage” or “quantum supremacy,” the point where quantum computers can solve problems that would simply…
UK’s Oxford Quantum Circuits snaps up $47M Series A for ‘QaaS’
Quantum computing has been making quantum leaps of progress in the last several years — going from theoretical concept to multiple testing environments, to help organizations prep for a time…
Paris-based Breega closes €250M fund, opens Barcelona office to back Iberian startups
Paris-originated VC Breega wasn’t enormously well known in the VC world (it only closed its first fund in 2015) until, perhaps, it started attracting attention with its second €110 million…
Amazon extends its quantum efforts with a focus on networking
Amazon today announced a new effort in bringing quantum computing to its cloud — at least in the long term. The company today launched the AWS Center for Quantum Networking,…
D-Wave launches a first prototype of its next-gen annealing quantum computer
D-Wave made a name for itself with its early annealing quantum computers and even though the company recently announced its efforts to also build a superconducting gate-model quantum computer, it’s…
Classiq raises additional funding for its quantum algorithm design tools
Tel Aviv-based Classiq, a startup that wants to make it easier for developers to build quantum algorithms and applications, today announced that it has raised additional funding for its service…
The problem with waiting for quantum computing to bring in the next wave of AI is that it’s likely to arrive a lot slower than people would like. The next…
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IBM’s CEO wants to chart quantum-fueled, AI-powered path to the future
When Arvind Krishna took over as CEO at IBM in April 2020, the world was immersed in the initial throes of the COVID pandemic and his company was struggling. It had spent the better part of a decade reporting declining revenue and it desperately needed a change in direction. Whatever…
How to get into Y Combinator, according to YC’s Dalton Caldwell
At TechCrunch Early Stage, Y Combinator’s Dalton Caldwell shared insights on the application process — what works on an application, what doesn’t, and the right ways to stand out.
Quantum Machines acquires QDevil to build out its full-stack quantum orchestration platform
Quantum Machines, the well-funded Israeli startup that specializes in building control systems for quantum computers, today announced that it has acquired QDevil, a well-known Danish company that specializes in building…
Maybell Quantum’s Icebox is a small fridge for large quantum computers
Maybell Quantum, a Denver-based startup that plans to build hardware for the budding quantum computing ecosystem, is coming out of stealth today and launching Icebox. As the name implies, Icebox…
