Photonic Inc.
photonic.com
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$180M
1 round on record
Latest round
$180M
Venture round · Jan 2026 · 9 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Backers
3
Amadeus Capital Partners, Firgun Ventures
The money's age
Fresh money
9 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
35/100
in the news, fresh money
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.39%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
1
best: 1 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Jan 2026 | $180M | Planet First Partners lead | Photonic - |
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Amadeus Capital Partners 
Firgun Ventures 
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Overview
Photonic Inc. is a company building the world's first commercial-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computers. Their technology uses a unique qubit design called T centres combined with photonic connections, which allows for scalable, distributed quantum computing. The company targets advanced AI, secure communications, drug discovery, climate modeling, and other critical areas.
News
OSCP Raises Series A Led By New Science Ventures To Scale Photonic IMUs
OSCP closed a Series A financing led by New Science Ventures to scale production of its ITAR-free photonic gyroscopes and inertial measurement units. Emerging Ventures and 2050 Capital also participated in the round.
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Photonic Quantum Computing Chip Tolerates 4x More Light Loss Than Any Rival
Photonic quantum computing reaches a milestone as Aegiq and the University of Sheffield publish QGATE, an architecture tolerating up to 25.98% photon loss -- four times the prior photonic benchmark
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Tiny Photonic Chip Slices Light to Push Direct-Detection Links Past 200
Researchers have demonstrated a photonic integrated receiver that uses recurrent optical spectrum slicing to enable direct detection of 200-GBaud signals over 75 km of dispersive fibre with low-complexity components.
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Programmable Photonic Chip Tames Modal Dispersion in Record-Breaking Fiber
Researchers at NTT have used a programmable photonic unitary processor, optimized by a differentiable digital twin, to cut modal dispersion and carry high-quality data over 1,300 kilometers of three-mode fiber.
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Volantis raises $88M to to build photonic memory layer for next-gen AI - TFN
Volantis has raised $88 million in Series A funding co-led by Lachy Groom and Abstract Ventures to develop a new photonic architecture for AI inference.
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Photonic devices - Latest research and news
Photonic devices are components for creating, manipulating or detecting light. This can include laser diodes, light-emitting diodes, solar and photovoltaic cells, displays and optical amplifiers. Other examples are devices for modulating a beam of light a
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Photonic Inc. unveils Project VANGUARD, a proposal for a $500M specialized semiconductor manufacturing facility to accelerate commercialization of quantum, AI and defence innovation in Canada
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Sept. 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Photonic Inc. today announced Project VANGUARD, a proposal to establish a Canadi...
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Building Scalable Quantum Computing Systems
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Photonic Inc. over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
10
Postings analysed
1
Stack modernity
66/100
Cloud & platforms
Active Directory
Azure
Linux
Microsoft Entra ID
Windows
Windows Server
Practices & domains
DHCP
DNS
PKI
VPN
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
33/100
Slowing
Open positions
0
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
60 days
faster than 23% of the market
Hiring Dynamics
0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
DevOps
100% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Windows to stack
Sep 2026
Added VPN to stack
Sep 2026
Added PKI to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Added DNS to stack
Sep 2026
Added DHCP to stack
Sep 2026
Added Active Directory to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
Coquitlam
Canada
HQ
Earlier presence
Columbia, United States
Financials
Total raised
$180M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2026 | $180M | Details |