Insider Brief
- QNu Labs raised ₹200 crore (about $21 million USD) in a Series A1 round to expand its quantum-safe cybersecurity technology and global operations.
- The round was led by India’s National Quantum Mission and Speciale Invest, with participation from Sony Innovation Fund, Gaja Capital, Artha Ventures and others.
- QNu Labs plans to invest the funding in research, sales, quantum sensing, artificial intelligence and India’s Quantum Secure and Sensing Networks project.
- Image: QNu Lab’s Sunil Gupta, co-founder & CEO, left and Srinivasa Rao Aluri, co-founder & Chairman, right.
PRESS RELEASE — QNu Labs, a leading deep-tech cybersecurity company building quantum-safe solutions, has raised ₹200 crore (about $21 million USD) in Series A1 round led by the National Quantum Mission and Speciale Invest with participation from Sony Innovation Fund, Gaja Capital and Artha Ventures, among other investors. The round takes QNu Labs’ total capital raised to ₹375 crore (about $39.4 million USD), marking a significant milestone in its journey to build and scale India-born quantum-safe cybersecurity technology for global markets.
The investment comes at a pivotal moment for quantum cybersecurity, as enterprises and governments worldwide prepare for the transition to quantum-safe infrastructure, and India’s National Quantum Mission is setting an aggressive timeline of 2029. With quantum computing and AI expected to fundamentally challenge existing encryption systems, organisations are increasingly evaluating migration to cryptographic technologies designed to withstand current and future quantum and AI attacks.
The fresh capital will be deployed to accelerate R&D, deepen QNu Labs’ technology leadership, and scale its sales and go-to-market capabilities across India and global markets. A part of this funding will be used as QNu’s contribution towards the approved project funded under RDI to build the Technology backbone of India’s Quantum Secure and Sensing Networks (IQSN). The investment will enable the company to further extend its quantum-safe technology stack by expanding into quantum sensing and AI, stretching deployments across critical sectors, and building the capabilities required to address the rapidly emerging global demand for quantum-safe migration.
With a decade-long head start in the space, QNu Labs is now positioned to move from pioneering the technology to scaling its adoption globally as enterprises prepare for one of the largest cybersecurity transitions ahead.
Sunil Gupta, Co-founder, QNu Labs said, “India has moved early on in the quantum era. The National Quantum Mission, through its IIT Madras hub, has laid the foundation and with implementation timelines published in 2026 across sectors, quantum-safe technology is shifting from policy to commercial deployment. QNu Labs has spent over a decade building this stack and has already deployed across government, critical infrastructure and BFSI. Investment in indigenous capability now gives India a clear opportunity: secure its expanding digital infrastructure with sovereign technology that meets global standards and competes in global markets.”
He further added, “With approximately 80% of this round came from new investors globally is a strong signal that global conviction in quantum-safe security is building, and QNu is at the centre of it.”
The latest round also reflects the growing confidence in India’s deep-tech ecosystem and its ability to develop globally relevant technologies from within the country. The participation of Sony Innovation Fund, alongside the National Quantum Mission, Speciale Invest, Gaja Capital and Artha Ventures, reflects increasing interest from both global and domestic investors in India’s quantum and cybersecurity capabilities.
Gaja Capital, which recently became the first Indian private equity firm to go public, is among the investors backing this round, underscoring the depth of institutional confidence behind India’s deep-tech sector. Gopal Jain, Co-founder and Managing Partner, Gaja Capital, said: “Quantum-safe security is becoming national infrastructure — as essential to a digital economy as power and transport are to a physical one. QNu Labs has spent a decade building a full stack in India, and is already deployed in the environments where trust matters most: critical infrastructure, government and BFSI. What attracted us is that the science is done and the demand curve is turning — this is now a scaling problem, and that is where we work best.”
Rise of quantum migration is one of the largest technology migrations in history and a strategic imperative for governments and businesses alike. For India, this transition represents not only a cybersecurity challenge but also an opportunity to establish itself as a global hub for quantum-safe technology and innovation. Having made this bet a decade ahead of the curve, QNu Labs aims to build on its early lead to help accelerate this transition, while taking homegrown quantum-safe solutions from India to enterprises and markets worldwide.
Vishesh Rajaram, Managing Partner, Speciale Invest said, “We first backed QNu Labs five years ago, convinced that quantum-safe security would move from the laboratory to the mainstream. That conviction is now playing out at scale, with governments and enterprises worldwide racing to prepare for the quantum era. We are proud to continue backing QNu Labs as it steps into this next phase of growth and global leadership.”
“Sovereignty in the quantum era will rest on the technologies and products a nation can build, secure and trust as its own. QNu Labs’ progress in quantum-safe cybersecurity, and the strong global and domestic investor interest it has attracted, marks a meaningful milestone in the maturation of India’s deep-tech ecosystem. As the National Hub for Quantum Communication under the National Quantum Mission, Samgnya has led the investment round as a step towards strengthening the country’s quantum capabilities at their foundation. QNu Labs’ trajectory will be closely watched as India advances its ambition to build trusted, sovereign and globally competitive quantum technologies and products, and to take its place among the world’s leaders in the quantum age.”- Ravindra Barlingay, CEO, IITM C-DOT Samgnya Technologies Foundation (National Hub for Quantum Communication).
“Sony Innovation Fund is actively investing across the deep-tech sector, with a strong focus on India’s rapidly growing ecosystem. We are excited to back QNu Labs, a pioneer and market leader in India’s quantum-safe cybersecurity sector, and look forward to collaborating with the team as it scales its solutions across global markets.” Yoko Fukata, Director/Head of Sony Ventures India, Sony Innovation Fund.
