FORWARD.one and Oost NL invest in QuiX and Its Photonic Quantum Computing Technology
Although terms of the deal have not been release, QuiX, a company that is developing photonic systems for quantum computing, announced that it has received investments from FORWARD.one and Oost NL. The company did not reveal the amount of the investment. Hans van den Vlekkert, CEO of QuiX said, “This investment by FORWARD and OostNL […]
German Non-Profit Initiative Hopes to Push QC to New Heights
For quantum technologies to be the de rigueur technological modality, communities must evolve to educate the masses https://unsplash.com/@timmossholder Bastions Universities and higher-education establishments are still the bastions of dissemination on the quantum information sciences. They work tirelessly, both in an academic and promotional sense, to raise awareness of what qubits can do for our future. Institutes, […]
Is this Danish Company the Most Promising Quantum Computing Startup in The World?
Carlsberg and its ubiquitous branding have done a lot for ‘Danmark’, the country with the oldest flag. But the peninsula is more than that. A startup with QC pharma first in thought Photo by Altin Ferreira on Unsplash But Science, As Life Faster drug discovery: nothing sounds sweeter to the plethora of CEOs at every pharmaceutical company […]
The Quantum Weekly: A Quarter to Remember
The Quantum Daily reviews quantum tech’s second quarter, Uruguay’s first QC startup, the first quantum IPO and more in this edition of The Quantum Weekly. Spotlight Story: The Quantum Daily’s Quarterly Report Reviews Quantum Tech’s Historic Second Quarter “The quarterly report also offers a look at how those second quarter investments were split among the […]
The Convergence of Emerging Technology
Photo by Tim Marshall on Unsplash Pivot & Go To gain traction, to compete with those around us, is a calling card for today’s startups. With so many competing technologies, it’s so important to have as many fingers in the pie as possible — this isn’t a bad thing. The ability to pivot and go where the technology and […]
The Quantum Daily’s Quarterly Report Reviews Quantum Tech’s Historic Second Quarter
The Quantum Daily has issued its quarterly report reviewing the second quarter for 2020. The report’s highlights that the quantum industry has attracted approximately $300 million in investment dollars from nearly 40 investors. “While it’s still very early to determine the impact that the coronavirus pandemic has had in funding quantum technologies, this robust level […]
JP Morgan Chase Unleashes Honeywell’s Quantum Computer on Tough Fintech Problems
JPMorgan Chase (ticker: JPM) ran Honeywell‘s quantum computer through its paces, publishing data last week about one of its quantum-computing experiments that could help the financial industry protect accounts and make better investment choices, according to Barron’s. The authors posted their findings on arXiv, an open-source site for researchers. Papers on arXiv typically are awaiting […]
Quantum South: Uruguay’s First QC Startup
The lush pampas of the Southern Cone are more than just cattle and gauchos. Quantum has arrived. Enjoy Photo by Guilherme Roveda Hellwinkel on Unsplash Risk Aversion My interest in South America, by that its history, culture and business landscape, has lasted more than two decades. Whenever I hear a startup — particularly in the field of quantum computing […]
QuantumCTek to be China’s first Quantum IPO
The first quantum technology to list as an initial public offering in China will likely be a quantum communication firm, QuantumCTek, according to Yicai Global. The online Chinese publication recently announced that Shanghai’s Star Market, the Shanghai Stock Exchange approved the public listing of QuantumCTek. The Star Market is the eastern city’s new Nasdaq-style tech […]
The Quantum Gold Rush updated: 2020 biggest year yet for investment
The Quantum gold rush Last October, Nature released a fascinating article called Quantum gold rush: the private funding pouring into quantum start-ups. In short, this showed the increasing interest in venture capital getting involved in the space. We wanted to push this further and decided to build our own dataset of funding rounds, updated for […]