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 […]
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Back to news homeU.K. 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 […]
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 […]
Turing Award Won by Programmer Who Paved Way for Supercomputers
In the late 1970s, as a young researcher at Argonne National Laboratory outside Chicago, Jack Dongarra helped write computer code called Linpack.Linpack offered a way to run complex mathematics on […]
VCs weigh in on Europe’s future in the critical deep tech market
Writing about Europe is hard today. Russia is invading Ukraine as we write, and global markets are in freefall. This is the continent’s political and military backdrop. Last week, this […]
QuantrolOx uses machine learning to control qubits
QuantrolOx, a new startup that was spun out of Oxford University last year, wants to use machine learning to control qubits inside of quantum computers. The company, which was co-founded […]
Why Is Silicon Valley Still Waiting for the Next Big Thing?
In the fall of 2019, Google told the world it had reached “quantum supremacy.”It was a significant scientific milestone that some compared to the first flight at Kitty Hawk. Harnessing […]
The US government needs a commercialization strategy for quantum
Laura E. Thomas Contributor Laura E. Thomas is the senior director of National Security Solutions at quantum sensing and computing company ColdQuanta. She is a former Central Intelligence Agency case […]
Can Europe compete in the quantum ‘space race’?
Alice Pannier Contributor The TechCrunch Global Affairs Project examines the increasingly intertwined relationship between the tech sector and global politics. Quantum information science has long languished in an academic corner […]
Why quantum ‘utility’ should replace quantum advantage
Mark Mattingley-Scott Contributor Marcus Doherty Contributor As the quantum computing industry continues to push forward, so do the goal posts. A long-sought objective was to attain quantum “supremacy” — demonstrating […]