Riverlane secures $20 million in Series A funding

Riverlane has raised $20m in Series A funding to build Deltaflow, its operating system for quantum computers. This new funding follows a £3.25 million seed round completed in June 2019. The round was led by […]

Quantum Personality of the Year 2020

Vote for the Quantum Personality of the Year 2020

The Nominees are : Paulina Mazurek (BEIT), Poland Itamar Sivan (Quantum Machines), Israël Ilyas Khan (Cambridge Quantum Computing – CQC), United Kingdom Daniel Twitchen (E6 – Element Six), United Kingdom John Levy (Seeqc), USA The […]

France announces a 1.8 billion euros Quantum Plan

The French President has just announced that the french research centers, start-ups and industrial groups will have a budget of 1.8 billion euros over five years. France has now a Quantum Plan. The French Quantum […]

India collaborates with Amazon in Quantum Computing

The India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has announced a collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to develop a Quantum Computing Applications Lab in the country. The lab is meant to provide access […]

Pricing financial derivatives with exponential quantum speedup

Pricing financial derivatives with exponential quantum speedup

A team of researchers at University of the Basque Country, Santander Bank and IQM, has presented a digital quantum algorithm to solve Black-Scholes equation on a quantum computer for a wide range of relevant financial parameters by mapping it to the Schrödinger equation

Google and Boehringer Ingelheim partnership

Google’s Quantum AI division is teaming with pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim to develop new types of drugs using Quantum Computing. The idea is to research and develop quantum computing tech to do molecular dynamics simulations, or the […]

Dutch Quantum Computing startups create IMPAQT consortium

Members of the IMPAQT consortium signed an agreement to collaborate on ensuring that different building blocks of Quantum Computing are well-interfaced. In the future, this will allow Quantum Computer manufacturers to easily integrate subsystems. The members of the IMPAQT consortium are: Orange QS – Integrated quantum system provider  […]

IonQ’s roadmap up to 2025

IonQ laid out its five-year roadmap for trapped ion quantum computers and plans to achieve broad quantum advantage by 2025. The company plans to deploy rack-mounted modular quantum computers small enough to be networked together […]

Launch of first Canada’s Quantum Network

Toronto-based Quantum Computing startup Xanadu, in partnership with MaRS and Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), announced the launch of what it claims is Canada’s first quantum network. Canada Quantum Network (CQN) will launch three nodes, quantum […]

Is Quantum Computing pharma’s next big disruptor?

Allie Nawrat talks to the Pistoia Alliance, QED-C and QuPharm about the opportunities Quantum Computing may provide to the pharma industry. In a future-casting 2030 vision report, life sciences membership organisation Pistoia Alliance examined technological opportunities […]

Zapata raises $38 million for Quantum Machine Learning

Zapata Computing has raised $38 million for its quantum computing enterprise software platform, which brings its total funding to over $64 million. Based in Boston, Zapata has one product: its hardware-agnostic Orquestra quantum computing platform. Enterprises […]

Finland selects IQM to build its first quantum computer

VTT and IQM have entered into an agreement to establish a co-innovation partnership and begin building Finland’s first Quantum Computer. The cooperation will bring together top expertise in quantum technologies and enable a leap in […]