Erlangen, 3 November 2026. Quint Computing, a German quantum computing startup based in Erlangen, has raised €9.1 million in Germany's largest-ever initial funding round for a quantum computing company. The company has also been awarded a €2.2 million Pathfinder grant by the European Innovation Council (EIC), placing it 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 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.
Quint was founded in October 2025 by Prof. Michael Hartmann, Prof. Christopher Eichler and Dr. Jona Stinner. It emerged from research at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and is part of the Munich Quantum Valley (MQV) ecosystem. Its advisory board includes Prof. Florian Marquardt of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Dr. Reinhard Ploss, former CEO of Infineon Technologies, and Dr. Markus Hoffmann, former partnerships lead at Google Quantum AI.
The company's patented technology uses a superconducting quantum chip architecture that eliminates a significant fraction of errors directly within individual circuit elements, preventing 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.
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."
Quint's founders have already investigated use cases in partnerships with Bosch, BASF and Boehringer Ingelheim. With the new funding, the company will expand its research and engineering team, advance its quantum processor roadmap and pursue initial industrial deployment projects. It is recruiting across quantum chip design, fabrication, quantum error correction and applications, aiming to grow to around 40 people by 2028.
Source: Quint news
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