QuiX Quantum, the Enschede-based photonic quantum computing innovator, in the present day introduced it has secured €15 million in Sequence A funding to ship the world’s first single-photon-based common quantum pc in 2026.
The spherical was co-led by Make investments NL and EIC Fund, with participation from present traders, PhotonVentures, Oost NL, and FORWARD.one. The Sequence A was preceded by the award of the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator programme, an initiative of the European Fee supporting firms that create and disrupt markets with their transformative applied sciences.
“Our Sequence A funding spherical fuels our mission to additional develop the core constructing blocks required for a fault-tolerant common quantum pc” says Dr–Ing. Stefan Hengesbach, CEO of QuiX Quantum. “With our first-generation system in 2026, we are going to display universality by overcoming long-standing challenges in quick feed-forward electronics and single-photon sources. The subsequent-generation system, deliberate for 2027, will concentrate on implementing error correction, a vital step in the direction of fault-tolerant methods able to reworking industries reminiscent of chemical engineering, drug growth, fraud detection, and superior manufacturing.”
Based in 2019, QuiX Quantum is a supplier of photonic quantum computing {hardware}, driving innovation within the growth of its Common Quantum Pc. The primary system, already offered and contracted for supply, underscores the impression of QuiX Quantum’s market-leading {hardware} and famend high quality.
With 5 workplaces throughout Europe, QuiX Quantum has targeted on creating top-of-the-line quantum processors, seeking to turn out to be the provider of alternative throughout Europe.
In 2022, it reportedly turned the primary firm globally to promote each 8-qubit and 64-qubit photonic quantum computer systems to the German Aerospace Middle (DLR QCI). In 2024, QuiX Quantum started providing cloud entry to its quantum methods, making a platform for hybrid computing and bringing near-term quantum computing to real-world functions in industries reminiscent of infrastructure, defence, healthcare and IT.
Liz Duijves, Make investments-NL Deep Tech Funds: “QuiX Quantum is certainly one of Europe’s most promising full-stack quantum computing firms, with a expertise that may reshape essential sectors like healthcare, power and AI. Our funding in QuiX not solely catalyses breakthrough innovation in quantum expertise, but in addition strengthens Europe’s management and reinforces a thriving deep tech ecosystem within the Netherlands.”
With this funding, QuiX Quantum will ship its first-generation common photonic quantum pc, designed to implement a common gate set enabling any quantum operation. This milestone introduces universality, accelerating QuiX Quantum’s towards delivering large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer systems.
QuiX Quantum goals to handle the rising demand from knowledge facilities and end-users for larger computational energy and entry to actual quantum {hardware} for testing algorithms and use circumstances. All QuiX Quantum parts and system designs are optimised from the design stage for high-volume manufacturing, scalability and power effectivity.
Svetoslava Georgieva, Chair of the EIC Fund Board: “We warmly congratulate QuiX Quantum on this vital milestone. Their profitable Sequence A spherical displays not solely the power of their expertise and group, but in addition the rising confidence in Europe’s DeepTech ecosystem. The EIC Fund is proud to help QuiX Quantum as they proceed to push the boundaries of quantum innovation and strengthen Europe’s management on this strategic subject.“
QuiX Quantum’s common photonic quantum pc leverages the ideas of superposition, entanglement, and interference to course of data in basically other ways from classical computer systems – in response to QuiX.
Constructed on silicon-nitride chips designed for high-volume manufacturing, its methods are extremely scalable, function primarily at room temperature, and are totally appropriate with data-center environments. These developments have the potential to unlock new computational capabilities in areas reminiscent of catalyst simulations, molecular dynamics, machine studying, and knowledge evaluation.
Jordy Schaufeli, funding supervisor at Oost NL: “QuiX Quantum is the one firm within the Netherlands creating a quantum pc based mostly on photonic silicon nitride chips – a particular and promising expertise. Quantum computer systems can remedy issues far past in the present day’s supercomputers, enabling breakthroughs in areas like supplies science, power, healthcare, and logistics. Along with Make investments-NL, EIC, PhotonVentures, and FORWARD.one, we’re proud to help QuiX Quantum and strengthens jap Netherlands as a number one area for photonics and quantum expertise.”
