Mohamed Abdel-Kareem

Diffraqtion, an MIT and University of Maryland spinout, has announced the closure of a $4.2 million pre-seed funding round to develop and deploy satellite constellations powered by its proprietary quantum camera technology. The round was led by QDNL Participations, with additional investment from milemark•capital, Aether VC, ADIN, and Offline Ventures. The total includes a non-dilutive DARPA SBIR Direct-to-Phase 2 contract valued at approximately $1.5 million, specifically targeted at enhancing space situational awareness (SSA) and detecting small, high-velocity objects in orbit. The company’s core technology is the Galileo 1 quantum camera, which aims to bypass the "diffraction limit"—the physical boundary that dictates [...]

SEALSQ Corp (NASDAQ: LAES) and Kaynes SemiCon have finalized a binding agreement to form SEALKAYNESQ Ltd, a joint venture (JV) dedicated to building India’s first secure semiconductor design and personalization center. The new entity, with SEALSQ holding a 51% stake and Kaynes SemiCon holding 49%, will establish an Outsourced Semiconductor Test & Personalization (OSTP) facility at Kaynes’ manufacturing campus in Sanand, Gujarat. This strategic initiative is designed to move beyond traditional assembly and testing to provide high-assurance, sovereign semiconductor solutions for India's mission-critical sectors, including defense, finance, government, and healthcare. The JV will integrate SEALSQ’s advanced Quantum Shield™ architecture and Post-Quantum [...]

SEALSQ Corp (NASDAQ: LAES) has entered into a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the strategic investment and potential majority acquisition of Quobly SAS, a French pioneer in silicon-based quantum computing. The multi-stage transaction, anchored by SEALSQ’s recently expanded $100 million Quantum Fund, could result in a total investment of approximately $200 million. This move follows a strategic collaboration established in November 2025 and aims to create a vertically integrated platform that combines Quobly’s CMOS-compatible hardware with SEALSQ’s post-quantum "Root-of-Trust" security capabilities. Quobly, a 2022 spin-off from CEA-Leti and CNRS based in Grenoble, specializes in developing quantum processors using standard 300 [...]

Colorado School of Mines is establishing a new Bachelor of Science in Quantum Systems Engineering, marking the first undergraduate degree of its kind in the United States. This program is designed to bridge a critical gap in the quantum workforce by preparing students to transition quantum scientific breakthroughs into deployable commercial technologies. While a significant portion of current quantum industry roles require only a baccalaureate level of training, the majority of existing educational programs have historically focused on master’s and doctoral degrees. By introducing this undergraduate pathway, the university aims to provide the industry with engineers capable of designing, integrating, and [...]

Equal1, an Irish quantum semiconductor company, has raised $60 million in a funding round to accelerate the deployment of its silicon-based quantum computing systems. The investment was led by the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, with participation from Atlantic Bridge, the European Innovation Council Fund, Matterwave Ventures, Enterprise Ireland, Elkstone, and TNO Ventures. This round brings the company’s total funding to over $85 million and is intended to facilitate the global rollout of the Bell-1 quantum server, a hardware platform designed to operate within standard data center racks. The company’s technical strategy relies on its UnityQ processor family, which utilizes a hybrid [...]

Project Eleven has announced a $20 million Series A funding round to accelerate the development of post-quantum cryptographic (PQC) infrastructure for the digital asset industry. The round was led by Castle Island Ventures, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Fin Capital, Variant, Quantonation, Nebular, Formation, Lattice Fund, Satstreet Ventures, Nascent Ventures, and Balaji Srinivasan. The investment follows a $6 million seed round in 2025 and values the company at $120 million. As part of the transaction, Nic Carter, founding partner at Castle Island Ventures, will join Project Eleven’s board of directors. The startup’s mission is to secure trillions of dollars in blockchain-based [...]

PsiQuantum has announced a strategic collaboration with Airbus to develop and evaluate quantum algorithms specifically optimized for fault-tolerant quantum computers. Operating under the Airbus QuLAB project, the partnership aims to address the aerospace industry's most complex computational challenges, primarily in fluid mechanics and computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The two companies have co-authored a technical paper, Simulating Non-Trivial Incompressible Flows With a Quantum Lattice Boltzmann Algorithm, which presents a validated approach for solving incompressible fluid flows under realistic conditions relevant to aircraft aerodynamics. The joint research leverages the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM), a "quantum-native" alternative to traditional Navier-Stokes-based CFD. Unlike classical solvers [...]

Top-down view of the Wonder Lake device. EeroQ has announced a significant breakthrough in quantum hardware scalability by demonstrating a control architecture capable of managing up to one million qubits with fewer than 50 physical control lines. This achievement addresses the "wire problem"—a critical bottleneck in quantum computing where the requirements in other implementations may require thousands of individual cables to address and control the qubits. This creates insurmountable thermal and engineering challenges. A demonstration of this new approach was performed using the company’s Wonder Lake chip, a device manufactured using a 130nm process technology at the SkyWater Technologies semiconductor foundry [...]

Honeywell has announced that Quantinuum LLC, its majority-owned subsidiary, intends to make a confidential submission of a draft registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). This filing serves as the first formal step toward a proposed initial public offering (IPO) of Quantinuum’s common stock. While the number of shares and the price range are yet to be determined, the move marks a significant shift for the industry, as it represents the first traditional IPO for a major quantum computing firm following a period dominated by Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) listings. Quantinuum LLC was established [...]

Welinq has announced the first commercial sale of its QDrive quantum memory system to the Institute of Physics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. The system will be integrated into the Slovak Quantum Communication Infrastructure (skQCI), a national initiative contributing to the broader EuroQCI framework for secure, continent-wide quantum networking. This transaction marks the transition of Welinq’s neutral-atom storage technology from advanced research to a deployable infrastructure component within an operational network. The QDrive system is a fully integrated, rack-mountable unit that operates at room temperature, eliminating the requirement for complex cryogenic cooling. It utilizes laser-cooled clouds of Rubidium-87 atoms to [...]