Quantonation

Venture Capital
43investments
2exits
$225.3Mraised by its portfolio in 12 months
213open roles in its portfolio

Overview

Quantonation is an early-stage venture capital fund dedicated to quantum technologies and deep physics. It invests in startups building quantum computing, quantum sensing, quantum communication and related hardware and software, backing teams worldwide from seed to Series A. The firm was founded in Paris in 2018 by Christophe Jurczak and Charles Beigbeder and is regarded as one of the first venture funds focused on quantum.

Investor profile

Venture capital
Investments
43
37 of them startups
Hiring now
18
213 open roles
Rounds in 12 months
8
$225.3M raised
Exits
2
Focusshare of its companies
Science & Engineering 51%Hardware 37%Artificial Intelligence 14%Software 9%Manufacturing 9%Telecommunications 9%Biotechnology 9%Cybersecurity 6%
Where its companies are
France 23%United States 14%Germany 9%Canada 7%Switzerland 5%United Kingdom 5%Japan 2%Belgium 2%
Stage of its companies
Series A 60%Pre-seed & seed 20%Series C and later 20%

People

Christophe Jurczak
Directeur Général
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Shared investors1
OVNI CapitalVia a fund
50 portfolio companies: Tranched, Trout Software, Rift and 47 more

News

Press release 3 months ago
From Early Conviction to Nasdaq: Quantonation Celebrates Pasqal's Public Listing
Quantonation led Pasqal's seed round and then its €25 million Series A in 2021, backing neutral-atom quantum computing years before the company reached the public markets at an approximately $2 billion enterprise value Paris/Dallas, Aug. 28, 2026, - Quant
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Blog 3 months ago
Transistor Moment for Light: Why Quantonation Backed PINC
For most of the history of photonics, controlling light has meant working with materials that are, in an important sense, passive. Linear optical materials let light pass through, bend, or reflect, but they can't easily interact with light to switch it, m
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Blog 4 months ago
Agentic AI and the New Pace of Quantum Application Development
New work with Pasqal shows how an AI agent can translate papers, patents and natural-language requests into experiments on real neutral-atom quantum processors-including Pasqal's machine in Saudi Arabia-and why that shifts where value is created in quantu
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Press release 4 months ago
Quantonation leads $25.5 million seed round in ZuriQ to scale groundbreaking 2D quantum architecture
The investment will support the ETH Zürich spin-out as it scales its novel trapped-ion architecture, expands its team and accelerates the development of processors capable of supporting hundreds and ultimately thousands of qubits. Paris/Zürich, 28 July 20
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News ZuriQ 4 months ago
ZuriQ raises $25.5 million to scale new groundbreaking 2D quantum architecture
Zürich, Switzerland, 28 July 2026 - ZuriQ, a Swiss quantum computing company spun out of ETH Zürich, today announced it has raised $25.5 million in seed funding to scale its trapped-ion quantum processors. The round builds on the company's $4.2 million pr
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Press release 4 months ago
Portfolio Company Multiverse Computing Raises $570M Series C to Scale Efficient AI from Edge to Cloud
Quantonation portfolio company reaches $1.7B valuation, a 5-fold increase over its Series B, as sovereign funds and global technology firms back the startup's CompactifAI quantum-inspired compression technology Paris, France -July 27th, 2026: Quantonation
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Blog 4 months ago
How Three Physicists Turned a Fundamental Discovery in Quantum Materials Into an Intrinsically Safe Battery Platform and What it Took to Get There
At Quantonation, we invest at the frontier of quantum technologies. Pioniq is one of our portfolio companies, and its story is also a useful illustration of how we like to work: our partner Christophe was in touch with Brigitte Leridon before Pioniq was e
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Blog 5 months ago
Quantonation Strengthens Platform with Two Global Deep-Tech Industry Executives
New York and Paris, June 11, 2026 - Quantonation, the world's leading venture firm for quantum and physics technologies, today announced the appointment of Magnus Bengtsson and Elizabeth Ruetsch as Venture Partners, strengthening the firm's ability to sup
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Press release 5 months ago
Quobly's €115M Series A Signals Quantum Computing's Shift to Industrial Scale
Dallas/Paris - June 3, 2026 - Quantonation portfolio company Quobly has announced a €115 million Series A financing to accelerate the industrialisation of its silicon-based quantum computing platform and bring its first commercial product to market by the
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Blog 7 months ago
Quantonation Selects Yaqumo as Its First Japanese Investment
TOKYO, JAPAN - April, 9 , 2026 - Yaqumo Inc. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Kazuhiro Nakashoji), a startup developing scalable neutral-atom quantum computers, announced today that it has raised a Seed Extension Round from Quantonation II FPCI ("Qu
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
Paris France
HQ
FAQ
10-50 est. staff
58 rue d'Hauteville, 75010 Paris
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