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Funding and backers

Total raised
$207.3M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$189M
Venture round · Jan 2026 · 8 mo ago
Backers
1
TCV
The money's age
Fresh money
8 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
20/100
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1 mo ago
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Jan 23 Raised a round Venture round $189M · TNW Investors-funding Jun 9, 2021 Raised a round Venture round $18.3M · YahooFinance 2018 Founded
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Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Jan 2026 $189M — TNW Investors-funding
Venture round Jun 2021 $18.3M — YahooFinance
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Overview

PennyLane (Xanadu) is an open-source, cross-platform software library designed for quantum machine learning (QML), quantum chemistry, and hybrid quantum-classical computing, developed by Toronto-based quantum photonics company Xanadu. Introduced in 2018, PennyLane integrates quantum computing hardware (such as photonic, superconducting, and trapped-ion processors) with classical machine learning frameworks like PyTorch, TensorFlow, and JAX.

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News TNW Investors-funding 9 months ago
French fintech Pennylane raises €175M
Paris fintech Pennylane raises €175M, to expand AI products and scale its financial platform across Europe at a €3.6bn valuation.
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News pennylane.ai 10 months ago
Introducing lattice surgery PennyLane Demos
Learn about lattice surgery for fault tolerant quantum computing with topological codes such as the surface code.
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News CNBC 1 year ago
French fintech Pennylane doubles valuation to $2.2 billion as Alphabet's venture capital arm takes stake
Accounting software startup Pennylane has raised 75 million euros ($83 million) in a new funding round led by Sequoia Capital.
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News NBC 6 South Florida 1 year ago
French fintech Pennylane doubles valuation to $2.2 billion as Alphabet's venture capital arm takes stake
Accounting software startup Pennylane has raised 75 million euros ($83 million) in a new funding round led by Sequoia Capital.
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News pennylane.ai 1 year ago
Material discovery reborn: Applications of quantum computing in quantum dynamics PennyLane Blog
Learn how quantum computing can revolutionize material discovery by enabling simulations of quantum dynamics. This blog post explores a novel quantum algorithm for vibronic dynamics with a case study on designing more efficient solar cells based on single
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News YahooFinance 2 years ago
Accounting software startup Pennylane becomes France's latest unicorn
Just like clockwork, Pennylane is raising another €40 million ($43 million at today's exchange rate). This new funding round comes after the accounting startup raised €4 million in 2020, €15 million in 2021, another €15 million in 2021 again, €50 million
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News Business Insider 2 years ago
Sequoia-backed fintech Pennylane just became a unicorn. Check out the 15-slide pitch deck it used to raise $43 million.
The French startup, founded in 2020, works with SMEs to help simplify and digitize their accounting processes.
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News TechCrunch 2 years ago
Accounting software startup Pennylane becomes France's latest unicorn
Pennylane, an accounting software startup based in France, just raised another €40 million. Over 120,000 SMEs use Pennylane in France.
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News pennylane.ai 3 years ago
Coding Challenges - PennyLane
Get hands-on experience with quantum computing in PennyLane - from quantum chemistry to quantum machine learning - using our exclusive coding challenges
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News pennylane.ai 3 years ago
PennyLane v0.32 released PennyLane Blog
PennyLane v0.32 is out, with features including interactive datasets, block-encoding operations, detailed logging functionality, qubit resetting, and more.
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Countries
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Toronto Canada
HQ

Financials

Total raised
$207.3M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
2
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2026 $189M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2021 $18.3M Details