QuiX Quantum, a Dutch company in photonic quantum computing, has secured €15 million ($17.5 million USD) in Series A funding. The round was co-led by Invest-NL and EIC Fund, with participation from PhotonVentures, Oost NL, and FORWARD.one. This funding follows a previous award from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator program. The capital is intended to support QuiX Quantum’s delivery of a first-generation universal photonic quantum computer in 2026.
The upcoming universal photonic quantum computer is designed to implement a universal gate set, enabling various quantum operations. This system will focus on addressing challenges in fast feed-forward electronics and single-photon sources. A subsequent next-generation system, planned for 2027, will emphasize implementing error correction as a step towards fault-tolerant quantum computers. QuiX Quantum’s systems are built on silicon-nitride chips, optimized from the design stage for high-volume production, scalability, and energy efficiency. They operate primarily at room temperature and are compatible with data-center environments.
Since its founding in 2019, QuiX Quantum has delivered quantum processors, including 8-qubit and 64-qubit photonic quantum computers, to entities such as the German Aerospace Center (DLR QCI) in 2022. In 2024, QuiX Quantum began offering cloud access to its quantum systems, establishing a platform for hybrid computing. The company aims to address the demand for computational power and access to quantum hardware for testing algorithms in industries such as infrastructure, defense, healthcare, and IT, supporting computational capabilities in areas including catalyst simulations, molecular dynamics, machine learning, and data analysis.
This financing round is intended to strengthen the European supply chain for quantum technologies and reinforce QuiX Quantum’s role in developing Europe’s quantum photonic ecosystem. The EIC Accelerator program is a European Commission initiative supporting companies with transformative technologies. The broader objective is to advance the development of core building blocks for fault-tolerant universal quantum computers and bring practical quantum computing to real-world applications.
Read the full announcement here.
July 10, 2025
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