softwareQ Inc. is a Kitchener, Canada-based quantum software company founded in 2017 by Dr. Michele Mosca and Dr. Vlad Gheorghiu, spun off from the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo. The company develops quantum simulators, compilers, optimizers, and software for quantum computing, with Vlad Gheorghiu serving as CEO and President. softwareQ’s flagship products include Quantum++, a general-purpose high-performance quantum computing framework significantly faster than competing platforms, and staq, a high-performance modular quantum computing processing toolkit comprising optimizers, translators, and physical mappers for quantum devices. In 2025, softwareQ was awarded up to $419,200 in funding for collaboration with UK quantum networking company Nu Quantum for fault-tolerant quantum computing. Both founders are IQC faculty members, with Michele Mosca as professor in the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo.
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