Quantcore Raises £2.5m to Expand UK Quantum Hardware Manufacturing
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Quantcore, a University of Glasgow spin-out, has raised £2.5m in seed funding to create a sovereign supply chain for quantum hardware, as the UK races to build domestic capacity in technologies critical to national security and economic competitiveness. The round was co-led by PXN Ventures, Blackfinch Ventures and Scottish Enterprise, with investment also coming […]
IonQ Selected to Support Missile Defense Agency SHIELD IDIQ Contract
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) is pleased to announce it was awarded a contract under the Missile Defense Agency Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract with a ceiling of $151 billion. This contract encompasses a broad range of work areas that allows for the rapid delivery of innovative […]
NQFF and Qolab Collaborate on Wafer-Scale Cryogenic Filters for Quantum Scaling
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Singapore is strengthening its role in the global quantum hardware ecosystem through a new collaboration between researchers at the National Quantum Federated Foundry (NQFF) and Qolab, a quantum computing company co-founded by 2025 Physics Nobel Laureate Professor John M. Martinis. Drawn by Singapore’s strong semiconductor and deep tech ecosystem, Qolab […]
Consortium Led by 4colors Research Awarded NQCC SparQ Grant to Advance Optimisation with Quantum Computing
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — 4colors Research announced today that a consortium led by the company and comprising Airbus, DNV, NQCC, and ORCA Computing has been awarded an NQCC SparQ Grant under the 2025 STFC Cross Cluster Proof of Concept: SparQ Quantum Computing Call. The programme is funded by the National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC) […]
Cloudflare Adds Post-Quantum Encryption Across SASE Platform
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company, today announced it has achieved a major milestone by delivering the world’s first complete Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) to support modern post-quantum (PQ) encryption standards. By integrating advanced post-quantum encryption across all its major network configurations, the Cloudflare One SASE platform now provides […]
Ameritec IPS Launches Quantum-Resistant QAmChain and Biometric Wallet
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Ameritec IPS, the U.S.-based cybersecurity and blockchain company that developed the HEWE (Health and Wealth) digital asset ecosystem and its underlying AmChain blockchain, has announced the upcoming launch of two new products designed to bring post-quantum security to its platform. The first is QAmChain, a quantum-resistant evolution of the company’s […]
Xanadu Nominates Four Experienced Global Business Leaders to its Board of Directors
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc. (“Xanadu”), a leading photonic quantum computing company, and Crane Harbor Acquisition Corp. (“Crane Harbor”) (Nasdaq: CHAC), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, today announced the proposed nomination of: as directors of Xanadu Quantum Technologies Limited (“NewCo”), the post-closing public company, in connection with the previously […]
IQM Set to Go Public Through Merger With Real Asset Acquisition Corp.
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — IQM Finland Oy, a global leader in full-stack superconducting quantum computers (“IQM”, “IQM Quantum Computers” or the “Company”), and Real Asset Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: RAAQ), a special purpose acquisition company (“RAAQ”), today announced they have entered into a definitive business combination agreement, which will result in IQM becoming a public […]
Australia Funds Quantum Technology Demonstration Projects
Insider Brief The Critical Technologies Challenge Program (CTCP) provides up to $36 million in grant funding to test and demonstrate solutions to market-led challenges of national significance using quantum technologies, the Australian Government’s Department of Industry, Science and Resources reported. The program operates in two stages, with stage 1 offering up to $500,000 to fund […]
Tectonic Labs Launches Post-Quantum EVM Wallet and Audit Services
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Tectonic Labs today announced PQ Wallet, a post-quantum ready EVM wallet extension for Ethereum and EVM chains, and the immediate availability of PQ Audits for protocols, wallets, and infrastructure teams. Post-quantum migration has moved from research to execution planning. Wallets and signing flows sit on the critical path for user […]