{"id":156117,"date":"2023-01-24T07:24:32","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T13:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/a-dark-horse-in-the-quantum-computing-race-raises-e100-million"},"modified":"2023-01-24T07:24:32","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T13:24:32","slug":"a-dark-horse-in-the-quantum-computing-race-raises-e100-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/a-dark-horse-in-the-quantum-computing-race-raises-e100-million","title":{"rendered":"A \u2018Dark Horse\u2019 In The Quantum Computing Race Raises \u20ac100 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-dark-horse-in-the-quantum-computing-race-raises-e100-million.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paris-based quantum computing startup PASQAL announced today it has raised \u20ac100 million in a Series B funding round, led by a new investor, Singapore-based Temasek. It was joined by the European Innovation Council (EIC) Fund, Wa\u2019ed Ventures and Bpifrance, through its Large Venture Fund and existing investors Quantonation, the Defense Innovation Fund, Daphni and Eni Next. This brings PASQAL\u2019s total funding to date to more than \u20ac140 million.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2019 as a spin-off from Institut d\u2019Optique, PASQAL develops quantum processors based on ordered neutral atoms in 2D and 3D arrays. Physics Today.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>PASQAL\u2019s technology is based on research conducted by the winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, and it plans to deliver major commercial advantages over classical computers by 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris-based quantum computing startup PASQAL announced today it has raised \u20ac100 million in a Series B funding round, led by a new investor, Singapore-based Temasek. It was joined by the European Innovation Council (EIC) Fund, Wa\u2019ed Ventures and Bpifrance, through its Large Venture Fund and existing investors Quantonation, the Defense Innovation Fund, Daphni and Eni [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156117","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\/156117","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}