Funding and beyond: A busy month in Dutch quantum

Let's catch up with some exciting recent announcements from from the Dutch quantum startup ecosystem. There has been quite a lot going on in the past few weeks. Here's a selection of recent announcements...

Funding

- OrangeQS announced a €12 million, oversubscribed Seed round

- QuantWare's recent Series A round was expanded by an additional €4.5 million, bringing the total to €23.3 million‍

Progress

- Q*BIRD collaborated with the BeQCI consortium to deploy a 132km quantum key distribution (QKD) link connecting Belgium and Luxembourg. It is the first cross-border Measurement Device Independent QKD (MDI QKD) quantum communication infrastructure in the Benelux region.

‍- Fermioniq's Ava platform is now available as an emulation backend on Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC)' Cloud, providing a digital twin for OQC’s Toshiko quantum computer.

‍- QphoX has partnered with Rigetti Computing and the UK National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC) to realise optical readout of a fully-fledged superconducting quantum computer.

Congratulations to all, as the Dutch ecosystem keeps pushing forward.