Mohamed Abdel-Kareem

kiutra, a company specializing in cryogenic cooling systems, has secured €13 million ($15.2 million USD) in a financing round, which brings its total private and public funding to over €30 million ($35.2 million USD). The round was co-led by NovaCapital and 55 North, with participation from High-Tech Gründerfonds and existing backers. The funding will support the development of kiutra’s proprietary magnetic cooling technology, which avoids the use of helium-3. The company’s systems use solid-state materials that are magnetized and demagnetized in a controlled way to reach ultra-low temperatures. The reliance of many quantum systems on scarce helium-3 has been flagged by [...]

The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed a €50 million ($58.6 million USD) contract with Thales Alenia Space for the preliminary design phase of the Security And cryptoGrAphic (SAGA) mission. The mission is intended to demonstrate satellite-based quantum key distribution (QKD) to complement existing ground quantum encryption networks, strengthening Europe's digital infrastructure. The SAGA mission, a part of the European Quantum Communication Infrastructure (EuroQCI), aims to provide a sovereign QKD service for European governments. The system will consist of a single Low Earth Orbit (LEO) QKD satellite, an Access Segment with four ground nodes, and a Control Segment. The contract, which [...]

The state of Connecticut has announced an investment of $10 million in QuantumCT, a statewide initiative co-led by UConn and Yale. The funding is part of a larger $50.5 million initiative for the state’s new “Innovation Cluster” in New Haven, and the QuantumCT award is specifically for quantum computing infrastructure and testbed deployment. The QuantumCT initiative is also a finalist in the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Regional Innovations Engines Program competition, which could provide up to $160 million in federal funding. The initiative aims to build a national hub for quantum-related jobs, research, and products, leveraging the expertise of its academic [...]

PINC Technologies, a Caltech spinout company developing advanced integrated nonlinear photonic devices and circuits, has announced the close of its Seed+ funding round, bringing total funds raised to date to $6.8 million. The funding was led by Quantonation, a venture capital fund dedicated to deep physics and quantum technologies, with participation from Wilson Hill Ventures, Freeflow Ventures, Hamamatsu Ventures, Qubits Ventures, Santec, and the Caltech Seed Fund. The company's platform is designed to make nonlinear photonics scalable and practical for real-world applications, including quantum information processing. Its technology, which builds on research from the Caltech Nonlinear Photonics Laboratory, addresses a core [...]

A new venture capital fund, 55 North, has been launched in Denmark, with a target size of €300 million ($352.5 million USD) and an initial close of €134 million ($157.4 million USD). The fund was incubated by the Export and Investment Fund of Denmark (EIFO) and co-anchored by Novo Holdings. The founding partners of the fund include Vsquared Ventures and Cambium Capital. Headquartered in Copenhagen, the fund is the largest pure-play quantum VC fund in the sector and marks a key ambition in Denmark’s National Strategy for Quantum Technology. The fund's investment strategy targets the entire quantum value chain, with a [...]

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has approved the creation of a new Technical Committee on Quantum Technologies (TC QT). The committee's primary objective is to develop specifications that address quantum communications and quantum networks across multiple sectors, with a goal of establishing standards for secure global communications networks. The TC QT will focus on several key areas of activity, including quantum communications, quantum networking, quantum sensing, and satellite quantum communications. The committee will also work on standardization for Quantum Random Number Generators (QRNGs) and will establish methodologies to assess hardware vulnerabilities and side-channel attack risks for quantum security. The group [...]

The Technology Innovation Institute (TII), the applied research arm of Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), has announced the launch of Manarat, a new custom-developed control electronics platform for quantum computing. The platform is intended to provide precise control over the quantum bits (qubits) that form the heart of these machines. The Manarat platform is engineered to synchronize multiple electronic boards with an accuracy of better than 100 picoseconds, a capability considered essential for complex quantum operations. The system has demonstrated the ability to control 10 qubits with high accuracy and is said to be at least five times more [...]

Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech, a Barcelona-based quantum computing company, has announced that it is now an integration partner of IMPAQT UA, a Delft-based cooperative consortium of quantum technology companies. This partnership strengthens European collaboration in building interoperable, scalable, and standards-driven quantum systems. Qilimanjaro is the first analog quantum computing company to join the group, contributing its expertise in integrating the full stack across analog, digital quantum, and classical platforms. The company's technology is based on fluxonium analog qubits, an architecture that bypasses the need for error correction. Qilimanjaro provides a SpeQtrum QaaS platform, which offers remote access to hybrid quantum data centers, [...]

Quantum Brilliance, CyberSeQ, and LuxProvide have announced a letter of intent to collaborate on quantum-secure encryption methods aligned with Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC). The partnership will focus on algorithms that use certified true random numbers to resist attacks from quantum-capable adversaries. The collaboration aims to develop a framework for PQC implementation, integration, and validation at scale. The collaboration will use Quantum Brilliance's virtual quantum processing unit, which generates true random numbers from quantum-physical measurement. CyberSeQ will then integrate these numbers into specialized PQC algorithms and assess their statistical quality, entropy, and certifiability. The validation will run on LuxProvide's MeluXina supercomputer. Quantum Brilliance's [...]

QuantWare, a provider of quantum processors, has delivered its 64-qubit Tenor QPU to the University of Naples Federico II (Unina), powering Italy's largest quantum computer. The Tenor is a product of the Quantum Open Architecture (QOA) model, which aims to lower the time and capital required for organizations to build quantum computers. QuantWare’s goal with the QOA model is to enable the ecosystem to innovate by allowing companies to build systems with components from various suppliers. The Tenor QPU is powered by the company's VIO platform and is the first in a broader rollout by QuantWare to its early-access partners. The [...]