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Quantum error correction firm Quint Computing raises €9.1mn

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November 3, 2026 by Ivy Delaney

Erlangen-based quantum computing firm Quint Computing has secured €9.1 million in its first funding round, the largest initial investment to date for a German quantum computing company. Led by Vsquared Ventures, the funding will enable Quint to expand its team to approximately 40 people by 2028 and accelerate development of its superconducting chip architecture for quantum error correction, Quint Computing says.

The company, a spin-off from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, aims to reduce hardware overhead, complexity, and energy consumption by a factor of 100. Bavarian State Minister for Science and the Arts, Markus Blume, congratulated the team, stating, “Bavaria is a quantum pioneer, from research all the way to application!”

Quint Computing Secures €9.1 Million in Initial Funding

Vsquared Ventures spearheaded the funding, with participation from Quantonation, Nucleus Capital, Faber, Vanagon Ventures and ZOHO VC, alongside quantum industry experts including Prof. Mikko Möttönen, founder of QMill. Complementing this private investment, the company also secured a €2.2 million Pathfinder grant from the European Innovation Council (EIC), bolstering its financial resources for development, according to Quint Computing. Founded in October 2025, Quint Computing originated as a spin-off from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and operates within the Munich Quantum Valley ecosystem.

The company focuses on quantum error correction, a critical challenge hindering the scalability of quantum computers. Quint’s patented superconducting chip architecture distinguishes itself by suppressing errors directly at the hardware level, a departure from conventional methods that rely on complex post-processing algorithms.

Bavarian State Minister for Science and the Arts, Markus Blume, congratulated the team and emphasized the importance of translating excellent science into industrial practice. He expressed confidence in quantum computing’s potential as a historic turning point. Quint’s advisory board includes Prof. Florian Marquardt ( for the Science of Light), Dr. Reinhard Ploss (former CEO of Infineon Technologies) and Dr. Markus Hoffmann (formerly). Munich Quantum Valley also extended its congratulations to the Quint team on reaching this milestone, signaling broad support for the company’s advancements in quantum technology., the company says.

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Ivy Delaney has been working with neural networks and machine learning since the mid-nineties, back when a couple of hidden layers and a long afternoon of training counted as ambitious. She has watched the field go from academic curiosity to the thing quietly running underneath everything, and she brings that long view to quantum computing. For Quantum Zeitgeist she covers the ground where the two fields meet. That means quantum machine learning and the variational algorithms it leans on, and it also means the less glamorous but more interesting story of classical machine learning already doing real work inside quantum machines, decoding error-correcting codes, calibrating noisy hardware and learning the error models that simulators depend on. She writes about the hardware those algorithms have to run on too, and about the post-quantum cryptography scramble that the same hardware has set off. Her stories typically start with the paper, whether that is peer-reviewed work, conference proceedings or an arXiv preprint, with the source linked so you can hold a claim up against the research it came from. She is unimpressed by benchmarks that will not say what they beat, and by demonstrations that only work in the press release.

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