Quantum Elements, a Los Angeles‑based quantum software startup, announced it has raised additional funding via a SAFE round, with participation from QDNL Participations, Quantacet, R‑Squared Ventures and Firgun Ventures. The capital will support development of its AI‑driven platform Constellation, which uses digital twins and hardware‑aware simulation to streamline quantum circuit design. The amount was not disclosed.
Tower Semiconductor and quantum‑computing startup Xanadu have broadened their partnership to industrialize a silicon‑photonic quantum stack. Leveraging Tower’s PH18 200 mm silicon photonics platform, the joint effort will transition Xanadu’s low‑loss SiN waveguide and integrated photodiode designs from prototype to high‑volume...
Quantum eMotion Corp. received approval to list its common shares on NYSE American under the ticker QNC, with trading slated to start around February 24, 2026. The move will see the company exit the OTCQB market while retaining listings on the TSX Venture...
Alpine Quantum Technologies and Scaleway have integrated AQT’s IBEX Q1 trapped‑ion quantum processor into Scaleway’s sovereign Quantum‑as‑a‑Service platform. The QPU, featuring all‑to‑all qubit connectivity and high gate fidelity, is accessible via open‑source frameworks without reservation during set time windows. Hosted...
MicroAlign has secured a €2.5 million Accelerator Grant from the European Innovation Council to industrialize its high‑precision quantum fiber arrays. The funding will shift production from pilot‑scale to high‑volume manufacturing, addressing a critical bottleneck in photonic quantum computing supply chains. Its...
IBM Ventures announced strategic investments in two Alchemist Chicago accelerator graduates, SQK and QodeX Quantum, to accelerate quantum software development. SQK is creating hybrid quantum‑classical algorithms for faster, more accurate medical image reconstruction, while QodeX Quantum is building a platform...

The Business Development Board of Palm Beach County secured a $1,031,000 federal grant to coordinate regional quantum technology initiatives and workforce training. Palm Beach State College also received over $2 million to launch a Quantum Innovation Center that will serve as...
SEALSQ Corp announced a follow‑on strategic investment in U.S. quantum hardware company EeroQ, marking its second capital injection after a December 2025 entry. The funding will support EeroQ’s electron‑on‑superfluid‑helium architecture and a joint proof‑of‑concept at SEALSQ’s Quantum Center of Excellence in...
In December 2024 the Campania region launched a €62.1 million tender for a quantum computer at the University of Salerno. After extending the deadline by one week, IBM submitted a late bid and was awarded the contract in September 2025 for...
IBM Ventures announced new investments in early‑stage quantum software startups SQK and QodeX Quantum, supporting SQK's hybrid quantum‑classical algorithms for medical imaging and QodeX's quantum‑native AI platform. The undisclosed funding aims to accelerate the quantum software ecosystem and give the...
MicroAlign announced it has received a €2.5 million accelerator grant and equity investment from the European Innovation Council (EIC) to industrialize high‑precision quantum fiber arrays, moving from pilot‑scale to high‑volume production. The funding will support the company’s roadmap to address bottlenecks...
Pasqal has delivered a 140‑qubit neutral‑atom quantum computer to Italy’s CINECA supercomputing centre, marking the nation’s first on‑site neutral‑atom system. The QPU is tightly coupled with Leonardo, one of the world’s most powerful pre‑exascale supercomputers, creating a hybrid HPC‑quantum architecture....
Kipu Quantum announced the general availability of Rimay, a quantum‑enhanced feature extraction service that plugs into existing classical machine‑learning pipelines. The platform leverages digitized counterdiabatic driving on IBM’s 156‑qubit processors to capture higher‑order data correlations inaccessible to classical algorithms. Early...
Comcast, Classiq, and AMD completed a technical trial that used quantum algorithms to improve global internet routing resilience. The experiment tackled the NP‑hard problem of finding vertex‑disjoint backup paths by applying the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) in a hybrid...

Delta Gold Technologies has entered a three‑year research sponsorship and exclusive licensing deal with Penn State University to develop gold‑nanocluster quantum materials. The collaboration, also involving the University of Toronto, demonstrates tunable spin polarization ranging from 7 % to 40 % and...
C12 and collaborators published a Nature Communications study showing an electrically controlled metal‑insulator transition in ultra‑clean, suspended carbon nanotubes. Using a 15‑gate “keyboard” architecture, they tuned an energy gap from 200 µeV to 30 meV, demonstrating a synthetic charge‑density wave that mimics...

Singapore’s 2026 Budget unveiled a S$37 billion Research, Innovation and Enterprise (RIE) 2030 plan, a 32% increase that keeps R&D spending at roughly 1% of GDP. Prime Minister Lawrence Wong highlighted quantum technology as a strategic growth pillar, announcing the country will...

Nu Quantum has opened a dedicated trapped‑ion networking laboratory in Cambridge, the first industrial R&D facility of its kind in Europe. The lab doubles the company’s research capacity and serves as the primary testbed for its Entanglement Fabric roadmap, moving...

QuEra Computing released the first part of its 2026 Quantum Readiness Survey, revealing a pronounced "quantum execution gap" between experimentation and production. While 62% of surveyed firms report hitting moderate to critical classical computing limits, only 13% have moved quantum...
The QUICHE project, a UK‑Germany partnership funded by Innovate UK and Germany’s ZIM programme, aims to embed quantum chemistry workflows into the widely used ORCA software. The consortium—Quantum Motion, FACCTs, and Riverlane—will develop automated translation of chemical systems into optimized quantum...
Quantum Motion has opened a European subsidiary in San Sebastian, Spain, occupying a 1,500 m² facility in the nanoGUNE Quantum Tower. The new site will develop silicon‑spin qubits and monolithic quantum‑classical chips using 300 mm CMOS wafer lines, emphasizing cryogenic control electronics to...
Infleqtion, together with the University of Chicago and MIT, has entered Phase 3 of the Wellcome Leap Q4Bio Challenge, securing $2 million for a 12‑month validation of quantum‑enabled biomarker discovery. The effort focuses on using the hybrid HRQAOA algorithm to select predictive...
Quantum‑technology firms announced a wave of leadership changes in early February 2026. IQM moved to a single‑CEO model with co‑founder Jan Goetz taking the helm and added COO Søren Hein to steer global expansion. IonQ bolstered its senior team by hiring Domenico Di Mola...

Quantum Machines has signed an agreement with the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park to launch a flagship R&D hub in Chicago. Operating from a 2,000‑square‑foot on‑ramp lab, the center will deploy the OPX1000 modular control platform to co‑design hardware and...

Silicon Quantum Computing (SQC) unveiled Quantum Twins™, an analogue quantum simulator built on a 15,000‑qubit silicon quantum‑dot array fabricated with 0.13 nm precision. The platform demonstrates controllable on‑site interaction (U) and tunnel coupling (t) across a 100 × 150 lattice, achieving U/t ratios...
QT Sense, a Dutch biotech startup, closed a €4 million seed round led by Cottonwood Technology Fund, supplemented by an ONCO‑Q grant and the Quantum Forward Challenge. The capital will accelerate development of Quantum Nuova, a nanodiamond‑based quantum‑sensing platform that provides real‑time,...
Welinq has launched its first commercial rack‑mounted Entangled Photon Pair Source, delivering the initial unit to a leading European research institution. The device operates at room temperature, fits a standard 19‑inch rack, and emits dual‑wavelength photons—telecom C‑band for low‑loss fiber...
South Carolina has moved its quantum technology agenda from a state‑level coordination model to university‑driven execution, backed by a $15 million legislative appropriation. The University of South Carolina launched the Applied Quantum for Space and Energy Lab to integrate quantum sensing...
Zapata Quantum has secured a worldwide patent for its Quantum Intermediate Representation (QIR) across the United States, Canada, Europe, Israel and Australia. The QIR acts as a hardware‑agnostic translation layer, similar to LLVM, enabling a single quantum program to run...

The European Union has committed €50 million—half from EU funds and half from national agencies—to the SUPREME consortium, led by Finland's VTT, to industrialize superconducting quantum technologies. The three‑and‑a‑half‑year program targets Technology Readiness Level 6 and Manufacturing Readiness Level 6, culminating...
EPB in Chattanooga has launched a Quantum Computing Fellowship backed by a $4 million grant from NIST. The eight‑person inaugural cohort will train on IonQ’s Forte Enterprise system, a 36‑qubit trapped‑ion quantum computer installed at EPB’s downtown Quantum Center. Developed with...

QuEra Computing and Roadrunner Venture Studios have signed a $4 million partnership to build a neutral‑atom quantum testbed in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The effort, part of the state’s $300 million quantum‑economy investment, will create a Photonics and Optics Testing Center and a...

Quobly, the Grenoble‑based silicon quantum processor developer, has launched a subsidiary in Sherbrooke, Quebec to embed itself in the North American quantum ecosystem. The new hub will collaborate with DistriQ, C2MI and the Université de Sherbrooke to accelerate cryogenic electronics,...

Spanish Government, via the Spanish Society for Technological Transformation, is injecting €9.75 million into Nu Quantum as part of its €60 million Series A round, establishing a Madrid subsidiary focused on industrializing quantum networking. The subsidiary will manufacture the Quantum Networking Unit, a...

Stanford physicists Jon Simon and Adam Shaw unveiled a cavity‑array microscope that reads out individual neutral‑atom qubits in parallel. The macro‑scale resonator, equipped with a microlens array, creates over 40 tightly focused optical modes, each strongly coupled to a single...

Numana has commissioned the third Kirq quantum communication testbed site in Quebec City, completing a regional loop that also includes Montreal and Sherbrooke. The facility, hosted at the Centre for Optics, Photonics and Lasers (COPL‑ULaval) and the National Optics Institute...

The Spanish Government, via the Spanish Society for Technological Transformation (SETT), has invested €9.75 million ($11.6 million) in quantum networking startup Nu Quantum as part of its $60 million Series A funding round. The funding will support a new Madrid subsidiary focused on industrializing...

Qunova Computing has released its HI‑VQE chemistry algorithm on the AWS Marketplace, integrating it with Amazon Braket. The hardware‑agnostic solution runs on trapped‑ion, superconducting and neutral‑atom processors from providers such as IonQ, IQM, QuEra, AQT and Rigetti. HI‑VQE’s “handover” iteration...

QMill announced a 48‑qubit NISQ algorithm that reaches verifiable quantum advantage at 99.94% gate fidelity, far below the 200‑qubit, 99.99% benchmark traditionally required. Numerical simulations show the implementation outpaces the El Capitan exascale supercomputer, delivering a six‑fold error‑tolerance improvement. The algorithm’s...

ZenaTech announced progress on its proprietary quantum computing hardware, targeting a five‑qubit prototype for U.S. defense and government use by late 2026. The platform will process high‑volume data from ZenaDrone swarms, delivering real‑time decision support for ISR missions. Integration with...

Arqit Quantum has launched Encryption Intelligence (EI), an automated SaaS platform that inventories an organization’s cryptographic assets across cloud, OT and legacy systems. The tool identifies obsolete algorithms and protocols, providing real‑time visibility to accelerate post‑quantum cryptography (PQC) migration and...

Chicago State University has introduced Illinois’ first public‑university quantum and semiconductor credentials, offering a Minor and Certificate in Quantum Information Science & Engineering and a Certificate in Semiconductor Technology and Manufacturing. The programs, approved by the Illinois Board of Higher...

Microsoft announced the 2026 Quantum Pioneers Program, a competitive research grant aimed at advancing measurement‑based quantum computing (MBQC). Up to five academic proposals will receive up to $200,000 each for a 12‑month project starting August 2026. The program focuses on...

IBM has launched Qiskit SDK version 2.3, emphasizing tighter integration with high‑performance computing and fault‑tolerant compilation pipelines. The update expands the C API with new QkDag and QkTarget objects, allowing custom transpiler passes in C, and introduces Rust‑driven performance gains...
Microsoft unveiled an updated, open‑source Quantum Development Kit that integrates with VS Code, GitHub Copilot, and supports Q#, OpenQASM, Qiskit, and Cirq, enabling seamless movement from local simulation to Azure cloud execution. The release highlights two new domain libraries: QDK for Chemistry,...
Montana State University’s Quantum Collaborative Research and Education (QCORE) facility secured a $31.5 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory to expand quantum infrastructure, including test beds for superconducting and photonic quantum computers, cryogenic labs, and secure network systems. The...
Nexus unveiled a global platform, built with Global Quantum Intelligence, to connect quantum and deep‑tech startups with verified investors, adding a technical verification layer that audits claims and benchmarks performance. The service, already hosting over 45 companies and $350 million in...
SpinQ Technology announced a Series C round that raised hundreds of millions of RMB, earmarked for scaling its superconducting quantum chip line and advancing error‑correction, measurement, and control hardware toward a 100‑qubit processor. The funding supports a dual‑track strategy: exporting portable,...
Europe has launched the €50 million Photonics for Quantum (P4Q) pilot line, a joint EU and national effort coordinated by the University of Twente to industrialize quantum photonic chips for computing, sensing, and secure communications. The consortium of 29 partners will...
The episode explains how King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) has launched Saudi Arabia’s first shared‑access quantum foundry, a dedicated clean‑room facility for reproducible, commercial‑grade quantum hardware. It highlights the use of Process Design Kits to standardize design...
Ability Engineering Technology (AET) has become a corporate partner of the Chicago Quantum Exchange to provide high‑precision cryogenic, vacuum, and pressure‑vessel hardware essential for scaling superconducting and silicon quantum processors. The partnership aims to eliminate engineering bottlenecks in moving quantum...
Alice & Bob unveiled “Elevator Codes,” a quantum error‑correction architecture that leverages the noise bias of cat qubits to dramatically cut hardware overhead while achieving a 10,000‑fold reduction in logical error rates. By nesting a 1D repetition code for phase‑flip protection...

In January 2026 bipartisan Senators introduced S‑11, the National Quantum Initiative Reauthorization Act, extending the 2018 quantum program to 2034. The bill replaces the term "science" with "engineering" and "technology," signaling a shift from research to commercial quantum manufacturing and...
Coherent Corp. and Quside have demonstrated a mass‑manufacturable quantum entropy source using Coherent’s 6‑inch VCSEL line combined with Quside’s QRNG technology. The system generates true, verifiable randomness by measuring VCSEL phase fluctuations and includes real‑time entropy monitoring to detect tampering....