QuiX Quantum raises €15 million Series A funding
The company plans to deliver a universal photonic quantum computer in 2026, addressing demand from datacentres and end users for greater computational power and access to real quantum hardware for testing algorithms and applications
QuiX Quantum, a Dutch photonic quantum computing company, has announced it has secured €15 million in Series A funding. The company’s goal is to deliver the world’s first single-photon-based universal quantum computer in 2026. The round was co-led by Invest-NL and EIC Fund, with participation from existing investors, PhotonVentures, Oost NL, and FORWARD.one. The Series A was preceded by the award of the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator programme, a key initiative of the European Commission supporting companies that aim to create and disrupt markets with transformative technologies.
Since its founding in 2019, QuiX Quantum says it has delivered world-record-breaking quantum processors, becoming the supplier of choice across Europe, and in 2022 became the first company globally to sell both 8-qubit and 64-qubit photonic quantum computers to the German Aerospace Center. In 2024, QuiX Quantum began offering cloud access to its quantum systems, creating a platform for hybrid computing and aiming to bring near-term quantum computing to real-world applications in industries such as infrastructure, defence, healthcare and IT.
With the new funding, QuiX Quantum plans to deliver its first-generation universal photonic quantum computer, designed to implement a universal gate set enabling any quantum operation. The company says that introducing universality accelerates it toward delivering large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computers. The technology aims to address the growing demand from datacentres and end users for greater computational power and access to real quantum hardware for testing algorithms and use cases.
QuiX Quantum says all its components and system designs are optimised from the design stage for high-volume production, scalability and energy efficiency. According to the company, the financing round also strengthens the European supply chain, reinforcing QuiX Quantum’s role as a leader in developing the continent’s quantum photonic ecosystem.
“Our Series A funding round fuels our mission to further develop the core building blocks required for a fault-tolerant universal quantum computer,” said Stefan Hengesbach, CEO of QuiX Quantum. “With our first-generation system in 2026, we will demonstrate universality by overcoming long-standing challenges in fast feed-forward electronics and single-photon sources. The next-generation system, planned for 2027, will focus on implementing error correction, a crucial step towards fault-tolerant systems capable of transforming industries such as chemical engineering, drug development, fraud detection, and advanced manufacturing.”
QuiX Quantum’s universal photonic quantum computer leverages the principles of superposition, entanglement, and interference to process information in fundamentally different ways from classical computers. Built on silicon nitride chips designed for high-volume manufacturing, the company says its systems are highly scalable, operate primarily at room temperature, and are fully compatible with datacentre environments. These advancements seek to unlock unprecedented computational capabilities in areas such as catalyst simulations, molecular dynamics, machine learning, and data analysis.
