Enschede-based QuiX Quantum, the Dutch photonic quantum computing pioneer, has secured €15M in Series A funding co-led by Invest NL and EIC Fund.
Other existing investors, including PhotonVentures, Oost NL, and FORWARD.one, also participated in the round.
The announcement comes over a year after demonstrating the on-chip creation of Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) states using QuiX Quantum technology, which is a crucial component for advancing photonic quantum computing.
The Series A came after receiving the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator program, which supports companies that innovate and change markets with their technologies.
Fund utilisation
With this funding, QuiX Quantum will deliver its first-generation universal photonic quantum computer, designed to implement a universal gate set enabling any quantum operation.
“Our Series A funding round fuels our mission to further develop the core building blocks required for a fault-tolerant universal quantum computer”, says Dr. Ing. Stefan Hengesbach, CEO of QuiX Quantum.
This new round of funding also boosts the European supply chain, strengthening QuiX Quantum’s leadership in developing the continent’s quantum photonic ecosystem.
QuiX Quantum: Igniting a Quantum Revolution
QuiX Quantum was founded in 2019 by Dr. Hans van den Vlekkert, a veteran of the photonics industry and serial entrepreneur, Dr. Jelmer Renema, an expert in quantum photonics, and a team of professors from the University of Twente.
Now led by Dr. Ing. Stefan Hengesbach, QuiX Quantum is a provider of photonic quantum computing hardware.
The Dutch company addresses the growing demand for more computing power and access to real quantum hardware, which is essential for testing algorithms and applications.
All of the company’s components and designs are made for large-scale production, easy scaling, and energy efficiency.
The company’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, its systems are highly scalable, operate primarily at room temperature, and are fully compatible with data-centre environments.
Since its founding in 2019, QuiX Quantum has delivered world-record-breaking quantum processors, becoming the supplier of choice across Europe.
In 2022, it became the first company globally to sell both 8-qubit and 64-qubit photonic quantum computers to the German Aerospace Centre (DLR QCI).
In 2024, QuiX Quantum began offering cloud access to its quantum systems, creating a platform for hybrid computing and bringing near-term quantum computing to real-world applications in industries such as infrastructure, defence, healthcare and IT.
“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,” adds Hengesbach.
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