Neotec Capital Riesgo, a Spanish fund launched by the European Investment Fund (EIF) and the Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI), a Spanish public body under the Ministry of Science & Innovation, which has financial backing from industry.  Neotec was set up to support the creation and development of Spanish technology companies, by investing equity through Spanish or European venture capital firms.

Neotec Capital Riesgo

BIC GIPUZKOA BERRILAN is the Center for Business and Innovation (CEI) of Gipuzkoa that gives you all the support to start a business through advice on processes of creating new companies that challenge innovation.  BIC BERRILAN , acts as a facilitator in the process of creation of new firms innovative and active agent in the process of supporting and promoting the entrepreneurial culture in Gipuzkoa . Since its inception in 1993, has become an important engine of regional development with sufficient capacity to anticipate, adapt and respond to the specific needs of new entrepreneurs and companies of Gipuzkoa, driving innovation, skills and consolidation of business its geographical environment and in close collaboration with technology centers, public and private institutions and universities.

BIC Gipuzkoa Berrilan

Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a no-fee/no-equity organization that delivers an objectives-based mentoring program for massively scalable, pre-seed stage, science- and technology-based companies. Its nine-month program allows founders to learn from experienced entrepreneurs, increasing their likelihood of success. Founded in 2012 by Professor Ajay Agrawal at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, the program has expanded to thirteen sites across seven countries: Seattle, Oxford, Paris, Atlanta, Estonia, Wisconsin, Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, Berlin, Melbourne and Halifax.

Creative Destruction Lab (CDL)

Quantonation is the first VC fund dedicated to Quantum Technologies. Fields such as molecular design, high performance calculation, cybersecurity, drug discovery, or ultra precise sensing are now driven by innovation based on Quantum Technologies. Thanks to its scientific expertise Quantonation aims at supporting the transition of these technologies into commercially available products for industry.

Quantonation

EASO is born from the lack of an investment industry in the Basque Country that supports startups and SMEs. The Private Risk Capture Company has the participation of nearly 100 Basque companies and entrepreneurs who, in addition to providing the investment, offer their knowledge and experience to support invested companies.  Knowing these needs, their differential value lies in the investment in newly created startups and SMEs that want to address growth projects. In Easo Ventures, they are aware that companies with the ambition to grow need complementary financing sources to the traditional ones. That is why the team seeks to respond to this demand by offering an investment program according to the type of project under development,  looking for promotional teams with a clear growth project that requires investment to carry it out. In addition, they provide clear experience and knowledge from a large team of mentors who collaborate with Easo Ventures. From the company they rely on their investors to contrast the value of the analyzed projects and, once the project's potential is validated, they turn to their Investment Committee for the analysis and decision making of the investment. The phases that make up your investment policy are the following: PHASE 0 It is the phase that forms the requirements of those innovators with a clear growth potential, who are in their initial phase of development and have entrepreneurs who are capable of leading the project. Those startups and small companies that comply with the demand will participate in the acceleration program at BerriUp , with an initial investment of € 50,000. PHASE 1 All those companies that, in addition to having a clear growth strategy, also add a proven business model, with a team capable of leading the expansion project, can participate in this phase. For these entrepreneurs Easo Ventures offers an investment ranging from € 100,000 to one million euros, in addition to providing adequate support and advice from the specialized team. Easo Ventures aims to be not only one more investment vehicle for startups, but also a vehicle designed and aimed at SMEs and MicroPYMEs in the Basque Country, rising as a professional investment industry needed today in the territory.

EASO Ventures

Mondragón Corp. is a corporation and federation of worker cooperatives, with important activities in the Financial, Industrial, Retail and knowledge sectors.

Mondragón Corp.

Penja Strategy

Seed Gipuzkoa (SPRI)

JME Venture Capital is an early-stage investment fund based in Madrid and Barcelona. The company was established in 2009 and is based in Madrid, Spain.

JME Ventures

Inveready is a leading alternative asset manager in Spain - investing in early-stage VC, growth VC, venture debt, strategic equity in listed companies, infrastructure and private equity - providing financing solutions to companies throughout their life-cycle.  Founded in 2008, Inveready counts on 177 active companies, 61 exits and more than €1bn of assets under management.  Some of our portfolio companies have been acquired by multinationals such as Intel, Symantec, IBM, and Facebook, whilst others are listed in public markets such as NASDAQ, the Spanish BME Growth, AIM London, and Euronext Growth. (visit www.inveready.com for more information)

Inveready

Clave is an investment management company.

Clave

Lks offers services that transcend traditional engineering and consulting services.

IKERLAN has been a technology centre dedicated to the innovation of company products, processes and services.

Ikerlan

Ezten Venture Capital Fund primarily operates as an investment firm.

Ezten Venture Capital Fund

Columbus Venture Partners is Spanish independent venture capital. It focuses on investing in early-stage opportunities in the life science industry.  The firm is a team of investment professionals with a scientific, medical, and business development background combined with experience in building and investing in companies to accelerate their commercialization.

Columbus Venture Partners

Redstone is a European venture capital firm following selected investment strategies. Our focused approach with specialized investment teams for each strategy has enabled us to develop strong sector expertise and networks. This combination supercharges our portfolio companies. We’ve spent a decade building the world’s leading proprietary startup analytics and data platform, SOFIA, allowing us to make evidence-based and data-driven investment decisions.

Redstone.VC

The European Innovation Council aims to support top-class innovators, entrepreneurs, small companies, and researchers with bright ideas. The EIC co-invests alongside private investors in early-stage startups that have ESG impacts.

European Innovation Council

QAI Ventures empowers Quantum Technologies’ global transformation with strategic startup investments and collaborative ecosystem building.

QAI Ventures

Indipartners dedicated to supporting business owners who steer technology-driven initiatives to revolutionize the industrial sector. organization, which is based on the Smart Capital concept, collaborates closely with the development team to provide 360º of business experience in order to meet the project's growth and profitability goals.

Indipartners

Multiverse Computing

Multiverse Computing creates quantum computing software that uses probabilistic or nondeterministic technology to solve complicated real-world challenges. The company provides software tailored to the needs of portfolio optimization challenges, risk analysis, and market simulation, giving companies in a variety of industries, including banking, energy, manufacturing, and logistics, the opportunity to benefit from the second quantum revolution.

<div>Spain-based Multiverse Computing focuses on developing quantum and quantum-inspired solutions to tackle intricate challenges across various sectors such as finance, energy, manufacturing, logistics, space, life sciences, healthcare, and defense. The company&rsquo;s flagship platoform,&nbsp; Singularity, is designed to deliver AI and optimization proprietary algorithms, helping professionals without a quantum background use quantum computing for immediate value in their fields. By 2027, it forecasted generating an annual revenue of EUR 100 million (USD 116 million) and aimed to expand its staff to 100.</div>

Quantum information processing is slowly becoming a reality, ushering in a new technological era.

Quantum Computing

Airbus picks Multiverse Computing for quantum-inspired gesture recognition

Bosch

Multiverse Computing collaborated with the Bosch automotive electronics plant in Madrid. The joint effort was aimed at leveraging Dr. Strange’s computing powers in a virtual version or “digital twin” of the factory.

Using real-time data to create dynamic virtual representations of the real world

Digital Twin

Platforms that facilitate digital twin modeling by either collectively or individually offering any combination of data capture and analytics solutions.

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 Spain-based Multiverse Computing focuses on developing quantum and quantum-inspired solutions to tackle intricate challenges across various sectors such as finance, energy, manufacturing, logistics, space, life sciences, healthcare, and defense. The company&rsquo;s flagship platoform,&nbsp; Singularity, is designed to deliver AI and optimization proprietary algorithms, helping professionals without a quantum background use quantum computing for immediate value in their fields. By 2027, it forecasted generating an annual revenue of EUR 100 million (USD 116 million) and aimed to expand its staff to 100.
 
 
 
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 In February 2024, Multiverse Computing and 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/26380">
 Single Quantum
 </a>
 secured a materials science R&amp;D contract worth USD 1.4 million from the German Aerospace Center&rsquo;s DLR Quantum Computing Initiative to advance superconducting nanowire single photon detectors for quantum communications. In December 2023, the company partnered with 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/24733">
 Moody&rsquo;s Analytics 
 </a>
 (initially entered in 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/23290">
 October 2023
 </a>
 ) to launch the QFStudio platform, serving as a marketplace for quantum-based solutions.&nbsp;
 
 
 The company also partnered with fellow quantum computing startups 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/12516">
 IQM
 </a>
 (August 2022) to develop application-specific quantum processors as well as 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/8250">
 Xanadu
 </a>
 (February 2022) to deliver quantum finance solutions and 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/6637">
 IonQ
 </a>
 (November 2021) to develop quantum-based finance solutions.&nbsp;
 
 
 
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 In March 2024, Multiverse Computing secured EUR 25 million (USD 27.1million) in an 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/27287">
 oversubscribed Series A
 </a>
 funding round led by Columbus Venture Partners. The funds were earmarked to accelerate the progression of the company&rsquo;s quantum and quantum-inspired algorithms and software, including the flagship products Singularity and CompactifAI.&nbsp;
 
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The UK-based Quantum Motion Technologies is engaged in developing quantum computer architectures based on silicon technology, which are compatible with standard silicon processing (CMOS process). The company believes this approach will enable it to create scalable quantum computers with thousands to millions of qubits. The company is working on a technology platform that is not just a qubit, but a scalable array of qubits based on the ubiquitous silicon technology already used in smartphones and computers.Quantum Motion’s goal is to fast-track the development of true fault-tolerant quantum computers and reach a million qubits and beyond by leveraging existing knowledge in device fabrication within the trillion-dollar silicon industry.Key customers and partnershipsIn February 2024, Quantum Motion entered into a project with the <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/26533">National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC) </a>to build the UK’s first silicon-based quantum processor test bed in its Oxfordshire site. In November 2023, Quantum Motion partnered with the University of Pennsylvania to further develop its silicon quantum computer chip technology.Funding and financialsThe company raised GBP 42 million (USD 50.5 million) in a <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/16504">Series B </a>funding round in February 2023 led by Bosch Ventures (RBVC). The proceeds were allocated for the development of the company’s quantum processors based on silicon technology.

Quantum Motion Technologies

SeeQC is a quantum hardware startup spun out from Hypres, a leading developer of superconductor integrated circuits. SeeQC was developing a digital system-on-a-chip design that integrates classical and quantum circuits into a hybrid system in order to overcome quantum computers’ current challenges. This also reduces noise and interference, maintaining high-fidelity quantum operations at scale. The company owns and operates superconducting flux quantum (SFQ) processors, a chip fabrication facility that enables the creation of multi-chip quantum computing systems and provides foundry services for superconducting devices. It also has facilities in London, UK, and Naples, Italy.Through the hybrid approach, SeeQC believes it can reduce the cost of quantum computers by 1/400th, provide greater control, and reduce energy requirements significantly.Key customers and partnershipsIn September 2023, the company entered into a collaboration with NVIDIA to develop the first all-digital chip-to-chip link between quantum computers and graphics processing units (GPU). SeeQC has also partnered with multinational chemical company <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/16298">BASF </a>in February 2023 to explore quantum computing in simulating chemical reactions.&nbsp;&nbsp;

SeeQC

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 IonQ develops general-purpose quantum computers using trapped-ion technology. Although the company calls itself a full-stack player, its focus has been on developing hardware. In December 2020, it revealed its quantum roadmap that introduced its new metric, &ldquo;algorithmic qubits (AQ),&rdquo; which represents the largest number of qubits that can be deployed while maintaining high performance and considering error correction. Its latest system IonQ Aria achieved 20 AQ, as of May 2023. In terms of physical qubits, IonQ&rsquo;s latest hardware had 32 qubits, which were expected to hold 22 AQs. In 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/23125">
 October 2023
 </a>
 , the company achieved 29 algorithmic qubits (AQ) using barium qubits for the first time.
 
 
 Founded in 2015, IonQ&rsquo;s main competitive advantage stems from its approach to designing qubits that allow computers to be operated at room temperature with lower error rates.&nbsp;
 
 
 IonQ unveiled the industry&rsquo;s first glass-based trapped ion computing chip called the Reconfigurable Multicore Quantum Architecture (RMQA) technology, in August 2021, which the company believes will significantly expand the longevity of qubits and enable at least triple-digit scalability.&nbsp;
 
 
 In 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/31824">
 July 2024
 </a>
 , the company unveiled an accelerated roadmap with expanded 2025 technical milestones, focused on improving native two-qubit gate performance to over 99.9% (three 9s) in 2025, with further gains expected in 2026 from the transition to barium qubits.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 IonQ has entered several strategic partnership including with&nbsp;
 
 
 1) 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/25925">
 Rescale
 </a>
 (January 2024) to combine their cloud computing and quantum computing capabilities
 
 
 2) 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/22265">
 Air Force Research Lab
 </a>
 (September 2023) to deploy two barium-based trapped ion quantum computing systems for quantum networking research and application development in a deal valued at USD 25.5 million
 
 
 3) 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/21158">
 BearingPoint
 </a>
 (August 2023) to offer its quantum systems and related professional services to the European market
 
 
 4) SoftBank Investment Advisers (June 2021) to provide support in deploying the company&rsquo;s quantum systems globally
 
 
 5) Accenture (September 2021) to accelerate the industrial application of IonQ&rsquo;s quantum systems
 
 
 The company offers access to its quantum computer via all major quantum cloud computing platforms including Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud Marketplace (GCM). It is also integrated with major software development kits (SDK) including IBM Qiskit and Google Cirq. In May 2023, IonQ began offering its IonQ Aria system on Amazon Braket.
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 The company went public on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker &ldquo;IONQ,&rdquo; in October 2021 via a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger. The IPO raised more than USD 650 million and made IonQ the first publicly traded pure-play quantum computing company.&nbsp;It earned a revenue of USD 22 million for the year ended December 31, 2023.
 
 
 The company secured Samsung&rsquo;s first-ever quantum computing investment (co-led by a UAE wealth fund) of USD 55 million in 2019. IonQ believes it can tap into Samsung&rsquo;s expertise in miniaturization to shrink quantum computing components.
 
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IonQ

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 Rigetti is an end-to-end provider of general-purpose quantum computers. The company&rsquo;s approach to developing computers is based on superconducting qubit technology, similar to Google and IBM. Since 2017, the company has operated a cloud-based quantum platform that allows developers to either create applications or use Rigetti&rsquo;s virtual machine.&nbsp;
 
 
 Rigetti is well-positioned to compete with incumbents as well as startups because of its advancements in hardware, which is currently used by 14 other companies (mostly other quantum software startups). Rigetti introduced the world&rsquo;s first multi-chip quantum processor, in June 2021, that physically connects multiple chips with their own qubits in a single functional processor, which is expected to improve scalability. It also launched its first commercially available 80-qubit quantum system in February 2022, which exceeds the qubit count of any other startup, but is lower than that of IBM.&nbsp;
 
 
 In June 2022, the company expanded its geographical presence with the launch of its 32-qubit, cloud-based 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/11308">
 Aspen system in the UK
 </a>
 market. It also strengthened its position in the software segment via the acquisition of QxBranch (a Washington-based quantum computing software company) in 2019. In December 2023, the company launched its first 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/24731">
 Quantum Processing Unit (QPU)
 </a>
 , Novera, which is based on its fourth-gen Ankaa-class architecture. The price of the QPU starts from USD 900,000.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 In July 2021, the company partnered with Astex Pharmaceuticals to apply quantum technology to drug discovery. This partnership was a stepping stone for Rigetti to commercially apply quantum computing to the pharmaceutical industry. Additionally, as part of an InnovateUK grant, the company partnered with 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/11334">
 Riverlane
 </a>
 in June 2022 to explore and develop error correction solutions. In October 2023, the company was awarded with a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/22419">
 (DARPA) 
 </a>
 contract as part of the Imagining Practical Applications for a Quantum Tomorrow (IMPAQT) program to advance quantum algorithms for solving combinatorial optimization problems. In January 2024, the company collaborated with 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/25242">
 Moody&rsquo;s Analytics
 </a>
 to enhance machine-learning methods for the financial sector using quantum computing abilities. In February 2024, Rigetti Computing and Riverlane joined a project led by the 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/27062">
 Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
 </a>
 , a part of the US Department of Energy (DOE), to explore the possibility of integrating a quantum computer and high-performance computing (HPC) systems.
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 Rigetti 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/8880">
 went public
 </a>
 on Nasdaq under the ticker &ldquo;RGTI,&rdquo; in March 2022 via a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger. The IPO raised USD 261.8 million and made Rigetti the second publicly traded pure-play quantum computing company, following IonQ. 
 
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Rigetti Computing

PsiQuantum develops general-purpose quantum computers based on the silicon photonic approach, a relatively new method that is capable of using the existing silicon supply chain of conventional electronics. This will help the company keep production costs low and provide scalability. Its semiconductor roadmap involves interconnecting multiple quantum processor chips with optical fibers and high-performance optical switches to enable teleportation and entanglement of single-photon operations between chips.PsiQuantum's technology uses individual photons, particles of light, as qubits. This approach offers several advantages, including the ability to operate at higher temperatures compared to other qubit technologies, compatibility with fiber-optic networks, and resistance to electromagnetic interference. Additionally, photons can maintain quantum states for relatively long periods, allowing more quantum operations and increased computational power.The company aims to build a fault-tolerant quantum computer with one million physical qubits by the end of 2027, enabling error correction and addressing complex problems across various industries.In <a href="https://www.psiquantum.com/news-import/psiquantum-opens-uk-based-research-facility-to-develop-next-generation-high-power-cryogenic-systems-for-large-scale-quantum-computing">March 2023</a>, PsiQuantum opened an advanced R&amp;D facility at the Daresbury Laboratory in the UK, backed by GBP 9 million from the UK Government's Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology. This facility provides access to one of Europe's largest liquid-helium cryogenic plants, essential for testing PsiQuantum's approach to storing quantum chips at extremely low temperatures.Key customers and partnershipsWorking toward its goal, in May 2021, PsiQuantum entered a partnership with global chip manufacturer <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/2245">GlobalFoundries</a> (GF) to build an integrated, silicon photonics-based quantum system called the “Q1 system” by manufacturing quantum chips in GF’s semiconductor foundry. This partnership also received US federal funding of <a href="https://www.schumer.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/schumer-announces-25-million-for-globalfoundries-and-psiquantum-to-develop-the-next-generation-of-quantum-computers-at-rome-air-force-research-lab-and-malta-campus-fed-funding-will-strengthen-national-security-supercharge-us-technological-competitiveness_ensure-upstate-new-york-continues-to-lead-quantum-technology">USD 25 million</a> in April 2022.&nbsp;In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/13868">October 2022</a>, the company secured a USD 22.5 million contract from the US Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) to co-design advanced quantum photonic chips that will be manufactured by GF. The company partnered with Japanese quantum software company <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/7246">QunaSys</a> in December 2021 to research quantum-based industrial chemistry and material science solutions and partnered with the UK-based Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/22518">Hartree Centre</a> in October 2023 to develop Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing (FTQC) applications in the UK. In January 2024, PsiQuantum and <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/25972">Mitsubishi UFJ </a>Financial Group (MUFG) entered PsiQuantum's Qlimate initiative project with Mitsubishi Chemical to research energy-efficient materials to promote a low-carbon economy.In May 2023, PsiQuantum received a USD 25 million grant from the US Department of Defense, through the Air Force Research Laboratory, for tooling and further development of its photonic quantum computer.Funding and financialsIn <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/29499">April 2024</a>, the company secured AUD 940 million (USD 620 million) from the Australian Commonwealth and Queensland Governments to establish the first utility-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer in Australia. Notably, PsiQuantum is one of the highest privately funded startup in the industry.

PsiQuantum

Hardware manufacturers for quantum computers or quantum-adjacent products.

Developers of quantum algorithms and software programs for specific industries such as pharmaceuticals or finance.

Full-stack companies offering hardware and software quantum computing solutions.


Companies developing quantum computing hardware using either gate-based or annealing technology.

Developers of quantum system software such as firmware, operating systems, compilers, qubit control software, etc.

Companies offering access to quantum hardware through either their own hardware or through a third party via the cloud.

Startups in this space offer solutions for building enterprise-specific applications and automations

<div>
 Multiverse Computing, a quantum software company, has raised EUR 25 million (USD 27.1 million) in an oversubscribed Series A funding round. The leading investor is Columbus Venture Partners, with additional contributions from Quantonation Ventures, European Innovation Council Fund, and other participants.
 The investment will be leveraged to speed up the development of the company's quantum and quantum-inspired software and algorithms. This notably includes their key products, Singularity and CompactifAI. The funding will also facilitate business expansion, with a particular emphasis on penetrating the US market.&nbsp;
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