planqc
planqc.eu
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High-Performance Computing
Quantum Science & Computing
Quantum Computing Hardware
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$54M
3 rounds on record
Latest round
$54M
Series A · Jul 2024 · 2 yr ago
Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
15
open roles
Grants
$435k
2 grants · CORDIS
Backers
7
Start-up Inc, Amadeus Capital Partners
The money's age
Long since its last round
27 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
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
Apr 1
Won a grant $273k · CORDIS
Jul 7, 2024
Raised a round Series A $54M
Nov 1, 2022
Won a grant $162k · CORDIS
2022
Founded
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Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grant | Apr 2026 | $273k | — | CORDIS |
| Series A | Jul 2024 | $54M | — | datacenterdynamics.com |
| Grant | Nov 2022 | $162k | — | CORDIS |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | HRB 276022 PlanQC Austria GmbH | its site |
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Start-up Inc 
Amadeus Capital Partners 
APEX Ventures 
Bayern Kapital 
DeepTech & Climate Fonds 
Speedinvest 
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How planqc hires
Truth index
D 52/100
Ghost roles
80%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
planqc scores D on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 15 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 80% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
planqc is a deep-tech quantum computing hardware enterprise headquartered in Garching (near Munich), Germany. Founded in 2022 by Dr. Alexander Glätzle, Dr. Sebastian Blatt, Dr. Johannes Zeiher, and Lukas Reichsöllner as the first commercial spin-off from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) and LMU Munich within the Munich Quantum Valley initiative, the venture has raised over €80 million in total funding and major government contracts from investors including CATRON Holding, DeepTech & Climate Fonds (DTCF), UVC Partners, Speedinvest, and Amadeus Capital.
News
German Entrepreneur Award 2025 for planqc
The spin-off from the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics wins The German Entrepreneur Award in the StartUp category with its approach to a powerful and reliable quantum computer.
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PlanQC GmbH
The Nature Index tracks the affiliations of scientific articles from high-quality publications. The research profile for PlanQC GmbH reflects the research output of authors from PlanQC GmbH who published articles in the 145 journals included in the Nature
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Munich startup planqc secures €50M for 'Made in Germany' quantum computers
German quantum computing startup planqc yesterday announced a Series A raise of €50mn for its digital atom-based technology.
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planqc awarded EUR 29 million contract from the DLR to build and install scalable neutral-atom quantum computer
GARCHING, Germany and MUNICH, May 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- planqc has been selected by the German Aerospace...
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at planqc over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
30
Postings analysed
5
Stack modernity
92/100AI adopter
Languages
Python
C++
TypeScript
Java
Frameworks & libraries
Django
Flask
React.js
Vue.js
Databases
InfluxDB
MySQL
Cloud & platforms
Anthropic
Grafana
Kubernetes
Linux
AI & ML
Claude
LLM
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30 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Growth
Hiring Momentum
59/100
Growing
Open positions
15
0 opened / 4 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
54 days
faster than 26% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~1 days
10/15/2026
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
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.
Hardware
29% ▲
Support
14% ▼
Administrative
14% ▼
Management
14% ▼
Quantum
14% ▼
Early Careers
14% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added MATLAB to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Added OpenAI Codex to stack
Sep 2026
Added LLM to stack
Sep 2026
Added Anthropic to stack
Sep 2026
New location: Ulm
Sep 2026
Added Scrum to stack
Sep 2026
Added Agile to stack
Sep 2026
Added SolidWorks to stack
Sep 2026
Added OpenAI to stack
Sep 2026
Added Claude to stack
Sep 2026
Added ChatGPT to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Garching bei München
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Garching bei München
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Garching Headquarters
17 open roles 7 posted in 90 days 59% engineering 200-500 est. staff
hires for Hardware, Backend, Management
85748 Garching b. München
Ulm
Germany
Regional office
Ulm
10-50 est. staff
Wilhelm-Runge-Straße 10 , 89081 Ulm
Munich
Germany
Regional office
Legal addresses
85748 Garching b. München
Jobs
≈ $61k – $180k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • Garching bei München
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≈ $65k – $129k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • Garching bei München
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≈ $61k – $180k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • Garching bei München
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≈ $59k – $139k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Garching bei München
Python
JavaScript
Java
Rust
TypeScript
SQL
C++
Flask
Django
AI/ML
Copilot
Claude Code
AI Agents
Frontend
Vue.js
React.js
DevOps
CI/CD
Git
Docker
Kubernetes
Quantum
Qiskit
Cirq
PennyLane
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≈ $59k – $137k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Garching bei München
Linux
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≈ $87k – $176k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Garching bei München
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≈ $68k – $118k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Garching bei München
Agile
Scrum
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