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World View Stratospheric Balloon. Credit: World View World View is a leading global stratospheric exploration company that flies stratospheric balloons at altitudes as high as 100,000 feet for remote sensing, imaging, navigation, and data gathering applications. At the maximum height, a sensor in the balloon has a line of sight extending out on a radius of 388 miles and could cover an area of over 470,000 square miles. Infleqtion is teaming up with World View to understand how Infleqtion's quantum based sensors could be used in such an environment. They will be working together to demonstrate how Infleqtion's cold atom based [...]

Peter Chapman, CEO of IonQ, is interviewed by Yuval Boger. Peter and Yuval discuss IonQ’s plans to scale their computers and deliver business value, the best application-development partners for quantum customers, IonQ’s new quantum manufacturing facility, his hiring philosophy, and much more. Transcript Yuval Boger: Hello, Peter, and thank you for joining me today. Peter Chapman: Hello, Yuval, thanks for having me. Yuval: So, who are you, and what do you do? Peter: My name's Peter Chapman. I'm the president and CEO of IonQ. A little bit, maybe, of my background. I've been in the high-tech business for, I guess, 45 [...]

Several different locations in the United States are vying to be the next "Silicon Valley" where there is a concentration of companies and academic institutions that have a critical mass of expertise in a particular technology. Some of the locations that would like to achieve this in quantum tech include the Virginia/Maryland/DC area, Chicago, Colorado, New York state and others. And now the Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) is making a play to include the Pacific Northwest in the list. The WTIA commissioned a study to look at the competitive situation along with the areas strengths and weaknesses for attracting more [...]

PASQAL, a leading French-based quantum hardware providers developing quantum processors based upon neutral atom technology, raised €100 million in Series B funding to bring the total amount raised so far to about €125 million. The round was led by new investor Temasek, a global investment company headquartered in Singapore with additional participation from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Fund, Wa’ed Ventures and Bpifrance, through its Large Venture Fund, and continuing investors Quantonation, the Defense Innovation Fund, Daphni and Eni Next. This investment is the largest private quantum fund raise that has occurred in Europe so far. The company will be using [...]

Welinq is a Paris, France based startup founded in 2020 that is developing quantum memory technology which would be critical for extending the range of a quantum communications network and could also be used in connecting multiple quantum computers together for scaling up quantum computing. Their product is based upon a  laser-cooled neutral-atom technology which allows them to achieve high qubit fidelities. The funding round was led by Quantonation with additional participation from Luxembourg-based Runa Capital and support from the Paris Region, the French National Quantum Initiative, the French Banque Publique d’Investissement (BPI), and the European Commission. Additional information is available [...]

Michael Biercuk, CEO and founder of Q-CTRL, a company that makes infrastructure software towards making quantum technology useful, is interviewed by Yuval Boger. Michael and Yuval talk about quantum control, a discipline that helps stabilize unstable systems, its application to quantum computers and quantum sensors, Q-CTRL’s educational software, and much more. Transcript Yuval Boger: Hello Michael, and thank you for joining me today. Michael Biercuk: It's a pleasure to be here. Thank you. Yuval: So, who are you, and what do you do? Michael: My name is Mike Biercuk. I'm the CEO and founder of a company called Q-CTRL, and I'm [...]

I was recently talking with the CEO of a major quantum company about personnel recruitment and he said something that was initially quite surprising to me. He indicated that recruiting qualified classical engineers was more of a challenge for their company than recruiting quantum specialists! On further thought, that makes sense to me now. It turns out that an awful lot of the technology that goes into a quantum computer is classically based. These include activities like developing classical control electronics for controlling the qubits, creating graphical user interfaces, data base engineering, integrating a quantum computer with a classical processor for [...]