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QuantumWaterloo, ON

Builds quantum software tooling - compilers, circuit optimizers and simulators - plus a quantum-computing-as-a-service platform, and does quantum consulting and training for enterprise clients.

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About

Company site: softwareq.ca

Builds quantum software tooling - compilers, circuit optimizers and simulators - plus a quantum-computing-as-a-service platform, and does quantum consulting and training for enterprise clients.

  • Signed an MOU with ORIENTOM Co. on quantum software toolchains for derivatives pricing, portfolio optimization, risk management and banking machine learning (August 2026). softwareq.ca

  • Awarded a $675,000 contract under the National Research Council's Applied Quantum Computing Challenge Program, with NRC researchers and Riverlane (April 2024). softwareq.ca

  • Won a two-year DARPA award for quantum benchmarking research with Raytheon and Stephen Bartlett's group at the University of Sydney (April 2022). softwareq.ca

  • Awarded $419,200 jointly by NRC and UKRI for networked quantum compilation for distributed quantum computers, with Nu Quantum (April 2024). uwaterloo.ca

Products & Services

Company site: softwareq.ca

Products softwareQ publishes on its own site. Each card links to the page it was taken from.

aqcess

Quantum computing as a service

A quantum-computing-as-a-service platform, presented by the company as "Accessing Quantum Computing: Easy, Smart, Simple".

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Quantum++

Quantum computing library

A high-performance quantum computing library written in C++.

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staq

Quantum compiler toolset

Quantum compiling and optimization tools for quantum circuits.

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Government & Grants

Government support actually received. Unpublished amounts are left out.

  1. NRC Applied Quantum Computing Challenge Program

    C$675.0K2024softwareq.ca
  2. NRC-UKRI Canada-UK Collaborative Quantum Projects, with Nu Quantum

    C$419.2K2024uwaterloo.ca

People

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Vlad Gheorghiu

CEO & President, Co-Founder

Michele Mosca

Director & Head of Quantum Algorithms, Co-Founder

Matthew Amy

Head of Quantum Software

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