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IQM
Europe's largest superconducting startup, selling on-premise systems to research centers and building co-design processors.
Profile
| Modality | Superconducting circuits — Microwave-controlled electrical circuits at millikelvin temperatures |
| Status | private |
| Founded | to verify: not published until checked against primary sources |
| Headquarters | to verify: not published until checked against primary sources |
Public milestones
The modality it bets on
Strengths: Fast gates; Semiconductor-style fabrication; Mature ecosystem. Challenges: Cryogenics; Wiring; Crosstalk; Coherence.
Investor lens: a company profile is not a recommendation. The diligence questions that matter (differentiation, full-stack dependencies, manufacturing path, benchmark transparency) are on Evaluating claims.
Peers on the same modality
IBM · Google Quantum AI · Rigetti Computing · Fujitsu / RIKEN · AWS (Amazon) · Alice & Bob