Insider Brief
- EdenBase and Northeastern University London have launched QBase, a new Quantum Applications Hub in the City of London to accelerate commercial adoption of quantum and AI technologies.
- The hub will provide startups and enterprises with capital, compute resources, and specialist expertise while fostering collaboration among investors, policymakers, researchers, and industry leaders.
- QBase will support sectors such as energy, sustainability, food security, and human biology by acting as a base camp for quantum startups, offering membership, mentorship, and real-world pilot opportunities.
PRESS RELEASE — EdenBase, the London-based frontier-technology investment platform and ecosystem, has officially launched QBase, a dedicated Quantum Applications Hub created in partnership with Northeastern University London.
QBase is designed to bridge the gap between research and real-world deployment by providing founders and enterprise teams with capital, compute resources, and specialist expertise, ensuring they are ready to take advantage of the incredible potential of quantum computing. The hub will connect quantum companies with global businesses and London’s finance and industry base, accelerating commercial adoption of quantum and AI applications across sectors such as energy, sustainability, food security, and human biology and beyond.
Opening the hub in the City of London, Howard Dawber, London’s Deputy Mayor for Business & Growth, welcomed QBase into the capital’s fast-growing quantum-AI cluster, declaring it “open for business” and highlighting City Hall’s policy commitment to skills, early-stage funding, and application-driven hubs that de-risk quantum adoption for industry.
QBase has been deliberately designed as an open, collaborative environment, where investors, policymakers, enterprise leaders, students and researchers can come together to pressure-test ideas and run pilots that integrate high-performance classical compute, advanced AI, and emerging quantum devices.
Industry Leaders Endorse Timing
- Wasseem Shiraz, SVP Quantinuum outlined a near-term roadmap where quantum systems augment AI and HPC to unlock new classes of applications.
- Naomi Goulder, Deputy Dean, Northeastern University London, highlighted how the partnership will give students “hands-on relevant experience embedded within live commercial projects,” building skills that industry urgently needs.
- Daniel Doll-Steinberg, EdenBase co-founder and author of Unsupervised, positioned QBase within the wider “cognitive revolution” that demands adaptability from businesses, educators, and society at large.
- All the speakers confirmed that this is the best time to invest but ecosystems like QBase that help drive adoption, skills, and smart investments are crucial at this time.
A Base Camp for Quantum Startups
QBase will act as a base camp for startups and scale-ups, offering memership, mentorship, and access to EdenBase’s investment platform. Northeastern’s experiential learning model provides the connective tissue between academic talent and building ventures, while external partners will contribute compute infrastructure and real-world use cases.
Call to Action
QBase is open for collaboration. Businesses exploring quantum-readiness and how quantum plus AI can transform their industries, investors seeking high-quality pipelines, policymakers seeking to better inform their work, and founders building at the intersection of AI and quantum are invited to engage for briefings, pilots, or residency opportunities via EdenBase.
