ZuriQ, the company building a quantum computer with scalability at its heart, is announcing the completion of a seed funding round, having raised $4.2 million. The funding round—which was led by Founderful with participation from SquareOne, First Momentum Ventures, OnSight Ventures, and QAI Ventures—will help commercialize ZuriQ’s revolutionary new architecture designed to disrupt quantum computing’s scaling limits.
Trapped ions are a powerful strategy for quantum computing architectures, capable of incredible performance, long coherence times, and long-range connectivity. Yet, despite its performance boons, this approach is difficult to scale, noted the company.
To rectify this challenge, ZuriQ is transforming how ions are trapped—moving from sole electric fields to both electric and magnetic fields. This approach enables the ions to move in all spatial directions, instead of along a straight line. By reengineering the fundamental computational building block, ZuriQ has enabled the possibility for quantum computing to achieve more scale, and in turn, more power.
For quantum computing’s power to be applied to industry use cases, it must be able to scale appropriately. ZuriQ’s re-design not only moves the world closer to this reality but maintains compatibility with proven control techniques. This milestone reflects ZuriQ’s mission to become the flagship provider of quantum computing globally, delivering both direct system sales and cloud access, according to the company.
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