{"id":130791,"date":"2021-11-18T05:22:35","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T13:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/a-new-quantum-computer-startup-from-harvard-mit-raises-17m"},"modified":"2021-11-18T05:22:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T13:22:35","slug":"a-new-quantum-computer-startup-from-harvard-mit-raises-17m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/a-new-quantum-computer-startup-from-harvard-mit-raises-17m","title":{"rendered":"A new quantum computer startup from Harvard, MIT raises $17M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-quantum-computer-startup-from-harvard-mit-raises-17m2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OAKLAND, Calif. Nov 17 (Reuters) \u2014 A new quantum computer startup born from researchers at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) called QuEra Computing said on Wednesday it raised $17 million from investors, including Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten Inc <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/companies\/4755.T\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">(4755.T)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the latest quantum computer hardware maker to come out of the lab at a time when funding for the nascent technology is booming. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/quantum-computer-maker-rigetti-go-public-via-15-bln-spac-deal-2021-10-06\/\" class=\"\"> read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While there are various technologies for creating so-called quantum bits or qubits where the computations happen, QuEra\u2019s qubits use neutral atoms in a vacuum chamber and use lasers to cool and control them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OAKLAND, Calif. Nov 17 (Reuters) \u2014 A new quantum computer startup born from researchers at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) called QuEra Computing said on Wednesday it raised $17 million from investors, including Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten Inc (4755.T). It\u2019s the latest quantum computer hardware maker to come out of the lab [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}