Quint Computing Secures €9.1 Million in Record First Funding Round for German Quantum Computing to Enable the Commercial Scaling of Quantum Computing
- Quint Computing has closed €9.1 million in its first funding round, the biggest first round for a quantum computing company in Germany. The round was led by Vsquared Ventures with backing from Quantonation, Nucleus Capital, Faber, Vanagon Ventures, ZOHO.VC and Prof. Mikko Möttönen, IQM and QMill founder.
- Quint tackles quantum computing's biggest bottleneck, error correction, with a novel chip architecture that reduces hardware requirements and costs while maintaining high computational speed.
- Founded by two world-leading quantum physics professors, Quint's advisory board includes Max Planck Director Prof. Florian Marquardt, former Infineon CEO Dr. Reinhard Ploss, and former Google Quantum AI partnerships lead Dr. Markus Hoffmann.
ERLANGEN, Germany, 03 November 2026 – Quint Computing, a German quantum computing startup developing a novel architecture for fault-tolerant quantum computers, has raised €9.1 million in Germany's largest-ever initial funding round for a quantum computing company. Quint has further been awarded a €2.2 million Pathfinder grant by the European Innovation Council (EIC), reaching a position among the top 0.1% of all applicants. The round was led by Vsquared with participation from Quantonation, Nucleus Capital, Faber, Vanagon Ventures and ZOHO.VC, alongside established industry experts including Prof. Mikko Möttönen, founder of IQM and QMill. The funding will support the expansion of Quint's team, accelerate its technology development and advance its first industrial deployment projects.
Founded in October 2025 by leading quantum physicists Prof. Michael Hartmann and Prof. Christopher Eichler and economist Dr. Jona Stinner, Quint emerged from research at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and is part of the Munich Quantum Valley (MQV) ecosystem. Its advisory board brings together leading scientific and industrial expertise, including Prof. Florian Marquardt, Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Dr. Reinhard Ploss, former CEO of semiconductor manufacturer Infineon Technologies, and Dr. Markus Hoffmann, former partnerships lead at Google Quantum AI.
Quantum computing has the potential to solve problems that even the most powerful supercomputers cannot handle, from simulating complex molecules to optimizing industrial processes. Yet one fundamental challenge continues to hold the industry back: no quantum computer today operates with sufficiently low error rates to enable broad industrial applications. Quantum computers are extremely sensitive to disturbances, making it difficult to perform the billions of operations required for commercially useful applications. Correcting these errors is essential, but existing approaches require vast amounts of additional hardware, slow down the computations or require not yet developed technology, making quantum computers increasingly complex, expensive and difficult to scale.
To overcome this, Quint’s patented technology offers a novel superconducting quantum chip architecture that eliminates a significant fraction of errors directly within the individual circuit elements. Instead of relying on complex algorithms, this approach prevents most errors at the hardware level.
Once fully implemented it is expected to reduce complexity, hardware overhead, and energy consumption by a factor 100 while maintaining high computational speed, bringing quantum computing within reach for industrial application.
Prof. Christopher Eichler, Co-Founder and CEO of Quint Computing, says: "The race to build commercially viable quantum computers is gaining momentum. Quint has a clear roadmap to accelerate the development of the required technology. Our unique processor architecture reduces complexity while maintaining high clock speed. The result is more computing power, lower operational costs and a shorter path to commercialization."
Prof. Michael Hartmann, Co-Founder and CTO of Quint Computing, adds: "Beyond improving error correction efficiency, we maintain high computational speed to enable fault-tolerant quantum solutions for a broad range of applications, from chemicals and pharmaceuticals to logistics and manufacturing."
Dr. Michael Jobst, Investment Partner at Vsquared, says: “While major industry players including Google, AWS, Microsoft and IBM are investing heavily and the industry has made significant progress in developing quantum computers, achieving fault tolerance at scale remains the decisive challenge. Quint is tackling exactly this central bottleneck and therefore enabling commercial scalability. The team behind this is what makes this breakthrough possible. Seeing two of Europe’s leading quantum scientists turn academic excellence into industrial innovation to create economic impact is exactly the ambition Europe needs.”
Once fault-tolerant quantum computers become available at scale, they could transform industries where conventional computing reaches its limits. In pharmaceutical research, quantum computers could simulate complex molecular interactions that are currently impossible to model accurately, helping accelerate drug development and reduce costly experimental trials, such as the simulation of liver enzymes responsible for metabolizing the majority of medicines. Better understanding these processes could help researchers develop more effective drugs with fewer side effects. These are exactly the kind of use cases Quint’s founders have already investigated in partnerships with Bosch, BASF and Boehringer Ingelheim, who are gearing up to be ready to utilize the new technologies when they become available. The commercial opportunity is substantial. Leading industry studies estimate that quantum computing could generate up to USD 2.7 trillion in economic value by 2035, provided fault-tolerant systems can be developed and scaled successfully.
With the new funding, Quint will expand its research and engineering team, advance its quantum processor roadmap and pursue initial industrial deployment projects. The company is actively recruiting engineers and researchers across quantum chip design, fabrication, quantum error correction and applications, looking to grow the team to around 40 people by 2028.
About Quint
Quint Computing, a German quantum computing start-up based in Erlangen, develops superconducting quantum computers with a radically efficient approach for error correction. Its novel architecture suppresses errors right at the source, reducing the overhead required for fault-tolerance by orders of magnitude while keeping computation fast. With this key step, Quint aims to advance scalable quantum computing systems and bring the technology closer to broad industrial applications. As a spin-off from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), the company builds on world-class research in quantum technologies and is backed by leading European venture capital funds. www.quint-computing.com
About Vsquared
Vsquared Ventures backs bold entrepreneurs engineering groundbreaking technologies addressing some of the world’s most pressing challenges to become global leaders. Investing in deep tech companies, Vsquared Ventures focuses on new space, energy transition, robotics and manufacturing, new computing and sensing, AI and next-gen software and tech-bio. Vsquared Ventures has built one of Europe’s strongest deep tech portfolios, including industry disruptors Isar Aerospace, IQM Quantum Computing, Zama.ai, Neura Robotics, Cylib and The Exploration Company. www.vsquared.vc