[ { "slug": "4colors-research", "name": "4colors Research", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-software", "Quantum-optimization", "Quantum-consulting" ], "city": "Cambridge", "region": "East of England", "latitude": 52.2053, "longitude": 0.1218, "founded": "2016", "website": "https://4colors-research.com", "shortSummary": "Optimisation solver company that won the Airbus and BMW quantum challenge and led an NQCC SparQ project on aircraft cargo loading with Airbus and ORCA.", "description": "4colors Research writes optimisation solvers for scheduling, routing, packing and assignment, and treats quantum computers as accelerators for parts of those searches rather than replacements. It took first place in the Airbus and BMW Group Quantum Computing Challenge and reached the semifinals of the XPRIZE quantum applications competition. Through the NQCC's SparQ programme it led a consortium with Airbus, ORCA Computing and the NQCC, with DNV observing, that ran hybrid algorithms for aircraft cargo loading on gate-based and photonic hardware and benchmarked them against classical methods.", "projectsLed": 1, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/4colors-research/" }, { "slug": "aegiq", "name": "Aegiq", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-processors", "Quantum-photonics", "Quantum-communications", "Quantum-software" ], "city": "Sheffield", "region": "Yorkshire and the Humber", "latitude": 53.3811, "longitude": -1.4701, "founded": "2019", "website": "https://aegiq.com", "shortSummary": "Sheffield builder of rack-mounted photonic quantum computers using quantum-dot photon sources, with a testbed running at the NQCC.", "description": "Aegiq builds photonic quantum computers in Sheffield around its own quantum-dot light sources, which emit single photons and entangled pairs at telecom wavelengths and ship in standard racks with only a mild cryogenic module. Founded in 2019 by Scott Dufferwiel, Maksym Sich and Andrii Iamshanov, it won a place in the NQCC's £30m testbed programme and commissioned its system at Harwell in late September 2025. It also led QTA-Foil, a SparQ study with BAE Systems on the quantum resources needed for aerofoil design, and opened a new Sheffield headquarters in May 2026.", "projectsLed": 2, "projectsPartner": 5, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/aegiq/" }, { "slug": "airbus", "name": "Airbus", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [], "city": "Filton", "region": "South West", "latitude": 51.5094, "longitude": -2.5784, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.airbus.com", "shortSummary": "Airbus in UK quantum: end-user partner in NQCC SparQ projects on cargo loading and corrosion, Oxford Ionics fluid dynamics work and the QCi3 hub.", "description": "Airbus takes part in UK quantum work mainly as an aerospace end user testing what quantum computers might do for it. Airbus Operations Ltd partnered in a 4colors-led NQCC SparQ proof of concept with ORCA Computing that ran hybrid algorithms for aircraft cargo loading on gate-based and photonic hardware, and Airbus joined Capgemini's QuantiCo consortium modelling corrosion of aluminium alloys. In December 2024 it teamed with Oxford Ionics and Quanscient on quantum simulation of fluid dynamics, supplying airfoil design use cases. Airbus Group is also a listed partner of QCi3, the Oxford-led national quantum computing hub.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 5, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/airbus/" }, { "slug": "algorithmiq-uk", "name": "Algorithmiq UK", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5227, "longitude": -0.0727, "founded": null, "website": "https://algorithmiq.fi", "shortSummary": "London subsidiary of quantum algorithms firm Algorithmiq; led ADOPT-TEM, an NQCC project using tensor error mitigation for fraud detection.", "description": "Registered in December 2021 with an office address in London's Blossom Yard, Algorithmiq UK Limited is the British subsidiary of Algorithmiq, which writes hybrid quantum-classical algorithms aimed mainly at chemistry and drug discovery. Its main UK project so far is ADOPT-TEM, an NQCC SparQ proof of concept it led with Rigetti UK and the NQCC, with the Financial Conduct Authority as an observer. The team adapted Algorithmiq's tensor error mitigation (TEM) method to run on a Rigetti quantum computer, aiming to make a hybrid fraud-detection model for digital payments more accurate, and tested the setup inside a hybrid quantum and HPC workflow on NQCC infrastructure.", "projectsLed": 1, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/algorithmiq-uk/" }, { "slug": "alter-technology-tuv-nord-uk", "name": "Alter Technology TÜV Nord UK", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [], "city": "Livingston", "region": "Scotland", "latitude": 55.883, "longitude": -3.523, "founded": null, "website": "https://wpo.altertechnology.com", "shortSummary": "Livingston photonics packaging and assembly site, formerly Optocap, working on quantum navigation optics and partner in QT Assemble and Pioneer Gravity.", "description": "Packaging and precision assembly of photonic and optoelectronic devices is the work of Alter Technology TÜV Nord UK at Livingston in West Lothian, the former Optocap, renamed in November 2019. Its quantum projects include QT Assemble, Fraunhofer CAP's consortium on making quantum components smaller and easier to build, and Pioneer Gravity, the ISCF project on a cold-atom gravity sensor. In April 2022 the Alter group opened a Photonics Design Centre at the University of Strathclyde's Technology and Innovation Centre in Glasgow and set out about €6 million over three to five years for it and the Livingston plant, aimed at quantum navigation and satellite optical communications.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 4, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/alter-technology-tuv-nord-uk/" }, { "slug": "altran-uk", "name": "Altran UK", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5072, "longitude": -0.1276, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.capgemini.com", "shortSummary": "Engineering and R&D services company, now part of Capgemini Engineering, that was a partner in the Gravity Pioneer quantum sensing consortium.", "description": null, "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/altran-uk/" }, { "slug": "amadeus-capital-partners", "name": "Amadeus Capital Partners", "shortName": null, "entityType": "investor", "categories": [ "Quantum-investment", "Quantum-hardware", "Quantum-software", "Quantum-research" ], "city": "Cambridge", "region": "East of England", "latitude": 52.2053, "longitude": 0.1218, "founded": "1997", "website": "https://www.amadeuscapital.com", "shortSummary": "Cambridge-founded venture firm backing UK quantum companies Riverlane and Nu Quantum, with Photonic and planqc also in its portfolio.", "description": "Hermann Hauser and Anne Glover's venture firm groups quantum under its Intelligence theme, alongside AI and advanced computing. Amadeus co-led Riverlane's £3.25m seed round with Cambridge Innovation Capital in June 2019 and was still backing the error-correction company in its $75m Series C in August 2024. It is also an investor in Cambridge quantum networking firm Nu Quantum, taking part again in its $60m Series A in December 2025, and lists Photonic and planqc in its portfolio. In April 2024 it brought in Kelly Richdale, formerly head of ID Quantique's quantum-safe security division, as a venture partner.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/amadeus-capital-partners/" }, { "slug": "aws", "name": "Amazon Web Services", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5072, "longitude": -0.1276, "founded": null, "website": "https://aws.amazon.com", "shortSummary": "AWS brought OQC's Lucy processor to Amazon Braket's London region in 2022 and is a project partner in the Integrated Quantum Networks hub.", "description": "For the UK, Amazon Web Services' quantum role is cloud access and networking rather than hardware. When its Amazon Braket service expanded to the London region in February 2022, the first processor it offered there was Lucy, an eight-qubit superconducting device from Oxford Quantum Circuits. In July 2023 HSBC's trial on the BT and Toshiba quantum-secured London network included a connection to AWS edge infrastructure, and AWS is a named project partner in the Integrated Quantum Networks hub led by Heriot-Watt University.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 3, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/aws/" }, { "slug": "amorphiq", "name": "AmorphiQ", "shortName": null, "entityType": "startup", "categories": [ "Quantum-ai", "Quantum-software", "Quantum-applications" ], "city": "Cambridge", "region": "East of England", "latitude": 52.2053, "longitude": 0.1218, "founded": "2025", "website": "https://www.amorphiq.co.uk", "shortSummary": "Cambridge startup applying quantum reservoir computing on superconducting qubits to time-series forecasting, backed by an Innovate UK proof-of-concept grant.", "description": "Quantum reservoir computing is the idea behind AmorphiQ: instead of training a whole quantum circuit, it lets superconducting qubits transform incoming time-series data through their natural dynamics and trains only the classical readout layer. The Cambridge startup, incorporated in July 2025, sells this as a hybrid quantum AI service, pitching it at material degradation modelling and market forecasting. Innovate UK gave it £49,183 for a proof-of-concept running from November 2025 to April 2026, which named trading, fraud detection, grid optimisation and factory anomaly detection as first targets.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/amorphiq/" }, { "slug": "angoka", "name": "Angoka", "shortName": null, "entityType": "startup", "categories": [], "city": "Belfast", "region": "Northern Ireland", "latitude": 54.5675, "longitude": -5.9155, "founded": null, "website": "https://angoka.io", "shortSummary": "Belfast machine-to-machine security start-up that worked on extending quantum key security to mobile devices in BT's AIRQKD trial.", "description": "Angoka, a Belfast start-up, secures communications between machines, offering field-deployable secure mesh networks for drones, ground vehicles and satellite terminals aimed at defence, ports and emergency services. Its quantum work came through AIRQKD, a £7.7m Quantum Technologies Challenge trial led by BT from November 2020, in which Angoka was one of the start-ups developing ways to carry quantum security to mobile devices for 5G and connected cars.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 2, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/angoka/" }, { "slug": "applied-quantum-computing", "name": "Applied Quantum Computing", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-optimization", "Quantum-machine-learning", "Quantum-consulting", "Quantum-software" ], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5074, "longitude": -0.1278, "founded": "2020", "website": "https://aqcquantum.com", "shortSummary": "London firm applying quantum optimisation and machine learning to NHS problems such as theatre scheduling and intensive care risk prediction.", "description": "NHS operating theatres gave Applied Quantum Computing (AQC) its first problem: a pilot with a hospital trust found that booking surgeries in batches improved theatre use and shortened waits. The small firm writes quantum optimisation and quantum machine learning methods, mostly for healthcare and finance, and sells consulting alongside them. Registered in London in December 2020, it went through the NQCC and STFC's QuBIC incubator at Harwell. Through the NQCC's SparQ programme it led a project with UCL, King's College London and Evelina London Children's Hospital on hybrid quantum-classical models that predict risk events in intensive care.", "projectsLed": 1, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/applied-quantum-computing/" }, { "slug": "aquark-technologies", "name": "Aquark Technologies", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-sensing", "Neutral-atom", "Quantum-hardware", "Quantum-components", "Quantum-control" ], "city": "Southampton", "region": "South East", "latitude": 50.9097, "longitude": -1.4044, "founded": "2021", "website": "https://www.aquarktechnologies.com/", "shortSummary": "Southampton spin-out building magnetic-field-free cold-atom clocks and sensors, including AQlock timing trialled with Royal Navy radars.", "description": "Aquark Technologies, a University of Southampton spin-out, makes cold-atom clocks and sensors around a trap that cools atoms without magnetic fields, which it says makes the hardware smaller and easier to deploy. Its AQlock clocks were used in a June 2026 Royal Navy trial aboard XV Patrick Blackett, giving two Saab Giraffe 1X radars a shared time reference without satellite signals, with QinetiQ and Dstl taking part. The NATO Innovation Fund led its €5m seed round in September 2024, and in May 2026 it set up a Danish subsidiary at the Niels Bohr Institute.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/aquark-technologies/" }, { "slug": "arm", "name": "Arm", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [], "city": "Cambridge", "region": "East of England", "latitude": 52.1962, "longitude": 0.176, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.arm.com", "shortSummary": "Cambridge-based processor design company that was a partner in the NISQ.OS quantum operating system consortium.", "description": null, "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/arm/" }, { "slug": "arqit", "name": "Arqit", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Post-quantum-cryptography", "Quantum-cryptography", "Quantum-consulting", "Quantum-software" ], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.4893335, "longitude": -0.1440551, "founded": "2017", "website": "https://arqitgroup.com", "shortSummary": "London-based, Nasdaq-listed developer of quantum-safe symmetric key agreement software for telecoms, government and defence.", "description": "Arqit sells encryption software, not quantum hardware: its Symmetric Key Agreement platform puts lightweight agents on each device to generate and broker shared keys, wrapped with post-quantum algorithms such as NIST's ML-KEM. The London firm was incorporated in 2017 as Omega QKD and led Next Generation Satellite QKD, a £4.5m Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund project (2020 to 2024) with BT, Toshiba, Nu Quantum and STFC among the partners. Now listed on Nasdaq as ARQQ, it showed quantum-safe data transfer with Babcock from Millbrook during DVD 2026 in September 2026.", "projectsLed": 1, "projectsPartner": 4, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-10", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/arqit/" }, { "slug": "astrazeneca", "name": "AstraZeneca", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-pharma", "Quantum-simulation", "Quantum-chemistry", "Quantum-research", "Quantum-algorithms" ], "city": "Cambridge", "region": "East of England", "latitude": 52.2053, "longitude": 0.1218, "founded": "1999", "website": "https://www.astrazeneca.com", "shortSummary": "AstraZeneca tests quantum chemistry for drug discovery, including a 2025 IonQ hybrid reaction simulation, and partners in the UK QCi3 computing hub.", "description": "Cambridge-headquartered AstraZeneca has pointed its quantum effort at drug discovery chemistry. With IonQ, AWS and NVIDIA it reported in June 2025 that a mixed quantum and GPU pipeline running on an IonQ Forte machine cut the simulation time for a Suzuki-Miyaura reaction, a step used in making small-molecule medicines, by a factor of more than 20. Since June 2023 it has been named among the drugmakers working with SandboxAQ's AQBioSim simulation unit. In the UK research system it is a listed partner of QCi3, the Oxford-led national quantum computing hub funded by EPSRC from December 2024.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 2, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/astrazeneca/" }, { "slug": "atlantic-microwave", "name": "Atlantic Microwave", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-components", "Cryogenics" ], "city": "Braintree", "region": "East of England", "latitude": 51.878, "longitude": 0.552, "founded": "1989", "website": "https://www.etlsystems.com", "shortSummary": "Former Essex RF supplier, later part of ETL Systems, that sold cryogenic amplifiers and terminations for quantum cryostats; dissolved in 2022.", "description": "Atlantic Microwave was a Braintree, Essex supplier of RF and microwave components that, by 2021, traded as a division of ETL Systems. Its quantum relevance was a range of parts rated to 4 kelvin and below for the cryostats used in quantum computing, including miniature AOX-series cryogenic amplifiers spanning 1 to 20 GHz and cryogenic SMA terminations. The company was dissolved at Companies House in October 2022 and its web address now redirects to ETL Systems.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/atlantic-microwave/" }, { "slug": "awe", "name": "AWE", "shortName": null, "entityType": "national-lab", "categories": [], "city": "Aldermaston", "region": "South East", "latitude": 51.3683, "longitude": -1.146, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.awe.co.uk", "shortSummary": "AWE, the UK nuclear weapons establishment, is setting up a quantum centre of excellence led by Strathclyde for sensing and materials simulation.", "description": "For AWE, the Aldermaston establishment that underpins the UK nuclear deterrent, quantum technology is a research tool for nuclear security. In November 2025 the government announced that AWE is launching the Quantum Centre for Nuclear Defence and Security (QCNDS), a centre of excellence led by the University of Strathclyde with the universities of Birmingham and Oxford, pairing academics with AWE scientists on work such as quantum sensing to check component condition and quantum computing for materials simulation. It follows AWE's August 2025 decision to make Strathclyde its fifth strategic alliance university, with quantum, sensor and space technologies among the shared themes.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 3, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/awe/" }, { "slug": "bae-systems-quantum", "name": "BAE Systems Quantum", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-sensing", "Quantum-communications", "Qkd", "Quantum-cryptography", "Quantum-research", "Quantum-defense", "Enterprise-adopter" ], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.4893335, "longitude": -0.1440551, "founded": null, "website": "https://baesystems.com", "shortSummary": "BAE Systems' UK quantum activity: navigation flight trials at Boscombe Down, a sensing consortium with Birmingham, and a partner role in the QEPNT hub.", "description": "For BAE Systems, UK quantum work is mostly about sensing and navigation for military aircraft. In May 2024 it joined Infleqtion and QinetiQ in UKRI-funded flight trials of quantum navigation aboard an RJ100 test aircraft at MoD Boscombe Down, and since 2020 it has run an Advanced Sensing Technologies Consortium with the University of Birmingham. Its Advanced Technology Centre is a partner in the QEPNT navigation hub, and the company also worked with Aegiq and the NQCC on QTA-Foil, a SparQ study of what quantum computing could do for aerofoil design.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 5, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/bae-systems-quantum/" }, { "slug": "barclays", "name": "Barclays", "shortName": null, "entityType": "enterprise-adopter", "categories": [ "Quantum-finance", "Post-quantum-cryptography", "Quantum-optimization", "Quantum-consulting" ], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5074, "longitude": -0.1278, "founded": "1690", "website": "https://www.barclays.com", "shortSummary": "Barclays has explored quantum algorithms for securities settlement since 2017, with IBM and later Microsoft's optical computer.", "description": "The British bank's Chief Technology Office has studied quantum computing since 2017, with distinguished engineer Lee Braine in charge of the research. Its first experiment, run on IBM quantum processors and posted in October 2019, adapted variational algorithms to optimise the settlement of batches of securities transactions; Barclays concluded small data sets were manageable but real-world sizes were years off. It later took the same settlement problem to Microsoft Research's optical Analog Iterative Machine, a collaboration reported in June 2023. On security, it sits on Europol's Quantum Safe Financial Forum for moving banks to post-quantum cryptography.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/barclays/" }, { "slug": "bay-photonics", "name": "Bay Photonics", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-components", "Quantum-photonics", "Qkd" ], "city": "Paignton", "region": "South West", "latitude": 50.4377, "longitude": -3.56327, "founded": "2007", "website": "https://bayphotonics.com", "shortSummary": "Devon photonic packaging firm that led the PADME entangled-photon source project and partners on UK QKD work including AIRQKD and MARCONI.", "description": "Bay Photonics packages photonic chips and optoelectronic parts, bonding dies and wires, aligning fibres, sealing packages hermetically and testing them at the Electronics and Photonics Innovation Centre in Paignton, Devon. Its main quantum project was PADME (November 2022 to May 2024), a £384,000 Innovate UK feasibility study with the universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde to package a photonic-chip source of entangled photon pairs. It has also been a partner in UK quantum key distribution projects, including BT's AIRQKD and RedWave Labs' MARCONI receiver consortium, and is a project partner of the Integrated Quantum Networks hub.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 6, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/bay-photonics/" }, { "slug": "bp", "name": "BP", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5077, "longitude": -0.1345, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.bp.com", "shortSummary": "Energy firm using quantum as an end user: IBM Quantum Network partner since 2021 and member of the AQuaSec and quantum data centre consortia.", "description": "BP comes to quantum technology as an energy-sector end user rather than a developer. It joined the IBM Quantum Network as an industry partner in February 2021, naming clay build-up in hydrocarbon wells, wind farm fluid dynamics and robotic inspection as problems to explore. In the UK it was an end-user participant in two Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund consortia: Toshiba's AQuaSec project on quantum-safe communications (2018 to 2021) and ORCA Computing's Quantum Data Centre of the Future (2022 to 2025). In June 2026 it was listed among the members of DSIT's new Quantum Growth Alliance.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 3, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/bp/" }, { "slug": "british-geological-survey", "name": "British Geological Survey", "shortName": null, "entityType": "research", "categories": [], "city": "Keyworth", "region": "East Midlands", "latitude": 52.8722, "longitude": -1.0789, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.bgs.ac.uk", "shortSummary": "BGS uses a new national network of quantum magnetometers to study space weather and partners in the QuSIT quantum sensing hub.", "description": "The British Geological Survey, based in Keyworth, uses quantum magnetometers to watch how geomagnetic storms affect different parts of the UK. Five such sensors, built by the University of Strathclyde and STFC RAL Space, were installed in 2025 at Aberystwyth, Boulby, Blickling, Chilbolton and Thurso, filling gaps between the BGS's three magnetic observatories. BGS is a partner in QuSIT, the national hub for quantum sensing, imaging and timing, as it was in the earlier Sensors and Timing hub that funded the magnetometer work.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 2, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/british-geological-survey/" }, { "slug": "bt-group", "name": "BT Group", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-communications", "Quantum-networking", "Qkd", "Post-quantum-cryptography", "Quantum-cryptography" ], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5074, "longitude": -0.1278, "founded": "1846", "website": "https://www.bt.com", "shortSummary": "BT runs London's quantum-secured metro network trial with Toshiba and led the AIRQKD and QAssure QKD projects from its Adastral Park research campus.", "description": "BT's quantum work is about securing and eventually linking networks, using quantum key distribution (QKD) on its own fibre. With Toshiba supplying the QKD hardware, it began commercial trials of quantum-secured fibre links across London in April 2022, building on work at its Adastral Park labs in Suffolk, with EY as the first customer; Equinix's Slough and Canary Wharf sites joined in September 2024. BT led the Innovate UK-funded AIRQKD and QAssure consortia, the latter worth £2 million and running to March 2026, and is a partner in the Integrated Quantum Networks hub.", "projectsLed": 3, "projectsPartner": 13, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/bt-group/" }, { "slug": "caledonian-photonics", "name": "Caledonian Photonics", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [], "city": "Glasgow", "region": "Scotland", "latitude": 55.8642, "longitude": -4.2518, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.caledonianphotonics.com", "shortSummary": "Scottish maker of compact solid-state lasers for quantum sensing and timing, working with Strathclyde under the Photonics and Quantum Accelerator.", "description": "Caledonian Photonics is a Scottish micro-SME making compact, rugged solid-state lasers, the kind of light source cold-atom sensors and clocks depend on. In December 2024 the Photonics and Quantum Accelerator funded a project in which University of Strathclyde researchers and the company are developing a diode-pumped, narrow-linewidth laser for quantum sensing and timing. It was also part of the consortium behind Infleqtion's May 2024 flight trials of quantum navigation hardware at MoD Boscombe Down, and a partner in the Fraunhofer CAP-led QT Assemble programme.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/caledonian-photonics/" }, { "slug": "cambridge-innovation-capital", "name": "Cambridge Innovation Capital", "shortName": null, "entityType": "investor", "categories": [ "Quantum-investment", "Quantum-software", "Quantum-hardware", "Quantum-research" ], "city": "Cambridge", "region": "East of England", "latitude": 52.2053, "longitude": 0.1218, "founded": "2013", "website": "https://www.cic.vc", "shortSummary": "Cambridge venture investor and long-time Riverlane backer, which hired OQC founder Ilana Wisby as entrepreneur in residence in 2026.", "description": "For Cambridge Innovation Capital, quantum mostly means Riverlane, the Cambridge company building error-correction systems for quantum computers. CIC co-led Riverlane's £3.25m seed round in June 2019, joined its $75m Series C in August 2024, and made it one of the first two investments from its £100m Opportunity Fund, launched in February 2025 with Aviva Investors and British Patient Capital as anchor backers. The University of Cambridge-linked investor also holds photonic computing firm Salience Labs. In July 2026 it hired Ilana Wisby, founding chief executive of Oxford Quantum Circuits, as an entrepreneur in residence to look at practical uses for quantum computing.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/cambridge-innovation-capital/" }, { "slug": "capgemini-uk", "name": "Capgemini UK", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5117, "longitude": -0.0983, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.capgemini.com/gb-en/", "shortSummary": "Capgemini's UK quantum work: its Quantum Lab for chemistry and post-quantum cryptography, and the NQCC QuantiCo corrosion project with Airbus.", "description": "Capgemini's Quantum Lab works on quantum chemistry and materials simulation, quantum algorithms and post-quantum cryptography, with UK expertise including Cambridge Consultants, part of Capgemini Invent. The group operates an IBM Quantum hub and counts King's College London among its research partners. In the UK, Capgemini UK plc headed QuantiCo, an NQCC SparQ proof of concept with Airbus, King's College London and the NQCC that used molecular embedding methods to model oxygen reduction on aluminium alloy surfaces, the chemistry behind corrosion. That cohort of projects ran until the end of March 2025.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/capgemini-uk/" }, { "slug": "cardiff-university", "name": "Cardiff University", "shortName": null, "entityType": "university", "categories": [], "city": "Cardiff", "region": "Wales", "latitude": 51.4866, "longitude": -3.1789, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.cardiff.ac.uk", "shortSummary": "Cardiff brings compound semiconductor expertise to UK quantum, through QFoundry, the Q-BIOMED sensing hub and its joint venture with IQE.", "description": "Compound semiconductors anchor Cardiff University's quantum work. The university co-owns the Compound Semiconductor Centre with IQE, and was a partner in QFoundry, the centre's 2020 to 2024 consortium to set up an open-access foundry for quantum semiconductor components. Cardiff is also one of six universities in Q-BIOMED, the UCL-led national hub for quantum biomedical sensing, and was a partner in the earlier Quantum Computing and Simulation Hub.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 4, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/cardiff-university/" }, { "slug": "cavero-quantum", "name": "Cavero Secure", "shortName": null, "entityType": "startup", "categories": [ "Post-quantum-cryptography", "Quantum-security", "Cybersecurity" ], "city": "Leeds", "region": "Yorkshire and the Humber", "latitude": 53.8008, "longitude": -1.5491, "founded": "2020", "website": "https://caverosecure.com", "shortSummary": "Leeds University spin-out selling software post-quantum key exchange and continuous identity checks for SIMs, IoT devices and AI agents.", "description": "Post-quantum key exchange small enough to run on a SIM card is Cavero Secure's main pitch, sold as the CaveroCore software library with a key-exchange module (CaveroKEX) and a protocol that re-verifies a device's identity at every exchange (CaveroCTX). It is classical cryptography designed to resist quantum attack, born from quantum information research at the University of Leeds by Professor Ben Varcoe and Dr Frey Wilson. Formerly Cavero Quantum, the Leeds company raised a £2.2m seed round led by Foresight in June 2024, joined the GSMA in May 2026 and closed a further $2.5m round in September 2026.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/cavero-quantum/" }, { "slug": "cerca-magnetics", "name": "Cerca Magnetics", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Cryogenics", "Quantum-components", "Quantum-control", "Quantum-electronics", "Quantum-photonics", "Quantum-research", "Quantum-sensing" ], "city": "Nottingham", "region": "East Midlands", "latitude": 52.9548, "longitude": -1.1581, "founded": "2020", "website": "https://cercamagnetics.com", "shortSummary": "Nottingham spin-out building wearable OPM-MEG brain scanners and shielded rooms, with Innovate UK and Ministry of Defence-funded projects.", "description": "Wearable brain scanning is Cerca Magnetics' business: it sells OPM-MEG systems, in which helmets of optically pumped magnetometers read the brain's magnetic fields while the wearer moves, alongside magnetically shielded rooms. The firm was spun out of the University of Nottingham with Magnetic Shields Ltd and is registered at Nottingham Science and Technology Park. In November 2025 it won £1,488,588 from Innovate UK's Quantum Sensing Mission Primer to plan a route to clinical use, and in December 2025 it was building a mobile MEG scanner for a Ministry of Defence study of blast exposure in service personnel. It is also a partner in the QuSIT hub.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 3, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/cerca-magnetics/" }, { "slug": "chase-research-cryogenics", "name": "Chase Research Cryogenics", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Cryogenics", "Quantum-components", "Quantum-infrastructure" ], "city": "Sheffield", "region": "Yorkshire and the Humber", "latitude": 53.3811, "longitude": -1.4701, "founded": "1993", "website": "https://www.chasecryogenics.com", "shortSummary": "Sheffield maker of sealed sub-Kelvin sorption and dilution coolers used in quantum computing, sensing and QKD detector systems.", "description": "Since Simon Chase started the business in 1993, Chase Research Cryogenics has made sub-Kelvin coolers in Sheffield, now from Cool Works on Savile Street: sealed sorption units that reach below 1 K, below 0.3 K using helium-3, and below 0.1 K with a continuous miniature dilution unit. It led IN-QUEST (2020 to 2021), an ISCF project with SeeQC UK to take commercial cryocoolers down to the millikelvin temperatures superconducting quantum computers need, and supplied the 1 K cooling for MARCONI's superconducting-nanowire QKD receiver; it is also a partner in the Integrated Quantum Networks hub.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 4, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/chase-research-cryogenics/" }, { "slug": "citigroup", "name": "Citi", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5049, "longitude": -0.0195, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.citigroup.com", "shortSummary": "Citi's UK quantum activity: partner to OQC in an NQCC SparQ proof of concept on quantum neural networks for derivative pricing.", "description": "Citi's visible UK quantum work is a single NQCC SparQ proof of concept: Quantum Physics Informed Neural Networks for Derivative Pricing, led by Oxford Quantum Circuits with the University of Edinburgh's Quantum Software Lab and the NQCC as partners. The bank supplied financial modelling expertise and real market use cases, while OQC brought its hardware and quantum-AI research, to test whether hybrid quantum-classical neural networks could price derivatives faster and more accurately. The project page reports a proof of concept but no performance figures.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/citigroup/" }, { "slug": "colt-technology-services", "name": "Colt Technology Services", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-communications", "Qkd", "Post-quantum-cryptography", "Quantum-networking", "Telecommunications" ], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5074, "longitude": -0.1278, "founded": "1992", "website": "https://www.colt.net", "shortSummary": "Network operator that trialled QKD and post-quantum encryption from London to Slough and Frankfurt, then ran 800G quantum-safe traffic to New York.", "description": "Colt Technology Services, the global network operator, has been testing quantum-safe encryption on its own live infrastructure. A trial with Toshiba, Nokia, Adtran, Ciena and ID Quantique, completed in 2025, combined quantum key distribution, pre-shared keys and PQC on a 1,361 km route from London to Frankfurt and an 88 km metro span between London and Slough, with QKD running on the metro leg. In June 2026 Colt and Ciena sent live 800 Gb/s traffic over a 6,900 km New York to London path protected by post-quantum algorithms, and Colt now sells PQC, QKD and symmetric key services.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/colt-technology-services/" }, { "slug": "csa-catapult", "name": "Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult", "shortName": null, "entityType": "research", "categories": [], "city": "Newport", "region": "Wales", "latitude": 51.5539, "longitude": -3.0407, "founded": null, "website": "https://sc.catapult.org.uk", "shortSummary": "Newport semiconductor Catapult with quantum photonics capability; partner in the QFoundry quantum components foundry and BT's AIRQKD trial.", "description": "Newport's Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult, which now trades as the Semiconductor Catapult with labs in Newport, Bristol and Glasgow, counts quantum photonics and sensing among the device work its engineering teams take on. Its quantum record is as a consortium partner. It was one of 12 partners in QFoundry, a £4m Compound Semiconductor Centre project (August 2020 to April 2024) to create an open-access UK foundry for quantum components such as single-photon emitters and detectors. It also took part in BT's AIRQKD trial of free-space quantum key distribution, which ran from June 2020 to September 2023.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 2, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/csa-catapult/" }, { "slug": "compound-semiconductor-centre", "name": "Compound Semiconductor Centre", "shortName": null, "entityType": "research", "categories": [], "city": "Cardiff", "region": "Wales", "latitude": 51.5309, "longitude": -3.088, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.compoundsemiconductorcentre.com", "shortSummary": "IQE and Cardiff University joint venture that led QFoundry, a £4m consortium for an open-access UK foundry making VCSELs and single-photon devices.", "description": "The Compound Semiconductor Centre is a joint venture between wafer maker IQE and Cardiff University that develops compound semiconductor materials and devices in South Wales. Its quantum role came through QFoundry (August 2020 to April 2024), a £4 million Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund consortium it led to set up an open-access UK foundry for quantum semiconductor parts. The work focused on single-mode VCSEL lasers and on quantum dot and quantum well single-photon emitters and detectors, with partners including Toshiba, IQE, NPL, Bay Photonics, Microchip and the universities of Cambridge, Sheffield and Cardiff.", "projectsLed": 1, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/compound-semiconductor-centre/" }, { "slug": "covesion", "name": "Covesion", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-photonics", "Quantum-components", "Quantum-sensing" ], "city": "Southampton", "region": "South East", "latitude": 50.9097, "longitude": -1.4044, "founded": "2007", "website": "https://covesion.com", "shortSummary": "Southampton maker of PPLN wavelength-conversion crystals and locked lasers for cold-atom sensors, now the components brand of Hawthorn Photonics.", "description": "Covesion makes periodically poled lithium niobate crystals that shift laser light from one wavelength to another, plus locked laser systems built around them, parts that end up inside cold-atom sensors and sources of quantum light. The Southampton company led BLINQ, an Innovate UK project from 2021 to 2023 on integrating blue lasers with networked quantum memories, and was a partner in the Fraunhofer-led QT Assemble programme. Its ruggedised LL2-Rb laser cooled the atoms in CPI TMD Technologies' HARLEQUIN navigation sensor during sea trials on THV Galatea, reported in November 2025. In September 2026 owner Hawthorn Photonics made Covesion its group-wide components brand.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 2, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/covesion/" }, { "slug": "craft-prospect", "name": "Craft Prospect", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-communications", "Qkd", "Quantum-aerospace", "Quantum-cryptography", "Quantum-networking" ], "city": "Glasgow", "region": "Scotland", "latitude": 55.8642, "longitude": -4.2518, "founded": "2017", "website": "https://www.craftprospect.com", "shortSummary": "Glasgow small-satellite engineer selling CubeSat QKD payloads and heading ESA's OPS-SAT VOLT quantum and optical communications mission.", "description": "Satellite quantum key distribution is a core product line at this Glasgow space engineering firm, which sells a BB84 QKD payload sized for a 6U CubeSat and a matching single photon source. Craft Prospect leads OPS-SAT VOLT, a joint ESA ScyLight mission of about €12 million announced in May 2023, which will fly its QKD hardware alongside optical communications and hyperspectral imaging on a 16U satellite. In September 2026 its team passed the first operations qualification test for the mission control centre, running part of a QKD demonstration on a ground emulator. It is a project partner in the Integrated Quantum Networks hub.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/craft-prospect/" }, { "slug": "cranfield-university", "name": "Cranfield University", "shortName": null, "entityType": "university", "categories": [], "city": "Cranfield", "region": "South East", "latitude": 52.074, "longitude": -0.629, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.cranfield.ac.uk", "shortSummary": "Postgraduate university in Bedfordshire that hosts a National Timing Centre Time and Frequency Innovation Node.", "description": null, "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/cranfield-university/" }, { "slug": "cryocoax", "name": "CryoCoax", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-components", "Quantum-hardware", "Cryogenics" ], "city": "Chelmsford", "region": "East of England", "latitude": 51.7356, "longitude": 0.4685, "founded": "2018", "website": "https://www.cryocoax.com", "shortSummary": "Chelmsford supplier of cryogenic coaxial cables and connectors for dilution refrigerators, a division of Intelliconnect, now within Amphenol.", "description": "CryoCoax supplies the wiring that carries microwave signals into dilution refrigerators: cryogenic coaxial cables and assemblies, connectors, adapters and high-density connectors, with quantum computing among the fields it serves. It is a division of Intelliconnect, a Chelmsford maker of RF connectors founded in 2003, which Trexon bought in September 2022 for its cryogenic-capable product lines; Amphenol completed its purchase of Trexon in November 2025. Since June 2020 CryoCoax has also sold Delft Circuits' flexible cryogenic cables in the UK and North America.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/cryocoax/" }, { "slug": "crypta-labs", "name": "Crypta Labs", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-communications", "Quantum-cryptography", "Quantum-hardware", "Quantum-components", "Qrng" ], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5232, "longitude": -0.1015, "founded": "2014", "website": "https://cryptalabs.com", "shortSummary": "London maker of quantum random number generators built from off-the-shelf optics, from a £200 USB device to 10 Gb/s OEM designs; IQN hub partner.", "description": "Crypta Labs makes quantum random number generators from an optics module built with cheap, off-the-shelf discrete parts instead of custom silicon, and licenses the design to hardware makers who want to embed it. Products run from a £200 USB starter device producing about 1,950 random numbers a second to a rack-mounted data-centre appliance with four 2.5 Gb/s Ethernet ports, while custom designs reach 10 Gb/s of entropy. The London company, incorporated in 2014, is a project partner in the Integrated Quantum Networks hub, and in September 2026 it published design guidance for OEMs building entropy sources into FPGA and microcontroller products.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/crypta-labs/" }, { "slug": "crypto-quantique", "name": "Crypto Quantique", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Post-quantum-cryptography", "Quantum-security", "Quantum-components", "Semiconductor" ], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5038, "longitude": -0.1004, "founded": "2016", "website": "https://www.cryptoquantique.com", "shortSummary": "London chip security firm whose QDID circuit derives device identities and keys from quantum tunnelling variations in standard CMOS.", "description": "Random variations in quantum tunnelling current across a chip's transistors give it a unique fingerprint, and Crypto Quantique's QDID circuit turns that into a device identity and keys that never need storing in flash. The London company, incorporated in 2016, licenses QDID as silicon IP verified on standard CMOS from 55 nm down to 12 nm, and sells the QuarkLink platform for provisioning and managing connected devices. In November 2024 it paired QDID with Finnish firm Xiphera's post-quantum cryptography cores, and the following month it added a true random number generator to the block.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/crypto-quantique/" }, { "slug": "csconnected", "name": "CSconnected", "shortName": null, "entityType": "ecosystem", "categories": [], "city": "Cardiff", "region": "Wales", "latitude": 51.5408, "longitude": -3.13, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.csconnected.com", "shortSummary": "South Wales compound semiconductor cluster organisation that was a partner in the QFoundry consortium.", "description": null, "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/csconnected/" }, { "slug": "deloitte", "name": "Deloitte", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-consulting", "Quantum-software", "Quantum-research", "Quantum-finance", "Quantum-optimization" ], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5074, "longitude": -0.1278, "founded": "1845", "website": "https://www.deloitte.com", "shortSummary": "Company in London working on quantum software and finance, founded 1845.", "description": null, "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/deloitte/" }, { "slug": "delta-g", "name": "Delta g", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-sensing", "Quantum-hardware", "Quantum-navigation", "Gravimeters" ], "city": "Birmingham", "region": "West Midlands", "latitude": 52.4538, "longitude": -1.9329, "founded": "2022", "website": "https://www.delta-g.co.uk", "shortSummary": "Birmingham spin-out building field-ready quantum gravity gradiometers from stacked rubidium atom interferometers; raised a £4.6m seed round in 2025.", "description": "Delta g makes quantum gravity gradiometers. In its patented hourglass design, two stacked clouds of laser-cooled rubidium atoms let the sensor compare how strongly gravity pulls at each height, exposing voids, buried structures and old mine workings without emitting a signal that could be jammed. Spun out of the University of Birmingham in 2022 from work at the Sensors and Timing hub, it has developed the sensor under Department for Transport contracts. In September 2025 it closed a £4.6 million seed round led by Serendipity Capital, with NSSIF and existing investor SCVC joining, and in November 2025 it was among 14 winners of Innovate UK sensing missions contracts.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 3, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/delta-g/" }, { "slug": "delta-gold-technologies", "name": "Delta Gold Technologies", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-materials", "Quantum-hardware", "Quantum-research" ], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5074, "longitude": -0.1278, "founded": "2025", "website": "https://www.deltagoldtech.com/", "shortSummary": "Aquis-listed London company funding Penn State and Toronto research into gold nanoclusters as qubits and licensing the resulting patents.", "description": "Delta Gold Technologies does not build quantum hardware; it pays for university research into gold as a qubit material and takes exclusive licences to what comes out. Its two sponsored programmes are at Penn State, where Ken Knappenberger's group studies gold nanoclusters whose electron spins can be set and read out with light, and at the University of Toronto. The London-registered company began trading on Aquis under the ticker DGQ in December 2025, brought three Penn State patent applications into its portfolio in June 2026, and in July 2026 reported about 40% spin-polarised emission from the clusters in Penn State experiments.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/delta-gold-technologies/" }, { "slug": "dsit", "name": "Department for Science, Innovation and Technology", "shortName": null, "entityType": "government", "categories": [], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5033, "longitude": -0.1276, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-science-innovation-and-technology", "shortSummary": "The government department behind the National Quantum Strategy, its five missions and the £2bn quantum package of March 2026, including ProQure.", "description": "UK quantum policy sits with DSIT, which published the National Quantum Strategy in March 2023. Its five missions set targets such as a UK-based quantum computer running a trillion operations by 2035 and quantum navigation systems fitted to aircraft by 2030. On 17 March 2026 the department and the Treasury announced up to £2bn of support, including a £1bn advance commitment to buy large-scale quantum computers built in Britain and £125m for quantum networking. The ProQure programme followed, offering phase 1 contracts of up to £14m each for prototype machines, with projects starting in October 2026.", "projectsLed": 5, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 11, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/dsit/" }, { "slug": "diamond-microwave", "name": "Diamond Microwave", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [], "city": "Leeds", "region": "Yorkshire and the Humber", "latitude": 53.8008, "longitude": -1.5491, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.diamondmicrowave.com", "shortSummary": "West Yorkshire maker of GaN microwave power amplifiers that supplied microwave subsystems to Universal Quantum's error-corrected processor consortium.", "description": "Gallium nitride solid-state power amplifiers for radar, electronic warfare and communications are Diamond Microwave's main line, and TMD Technologies took a stake in the West Yorkshire business in February 2020. Its quantum link is modest but concrete: it joined Universal Quantum's Innovate UK consortium for an error-corrected trapped-ion processor (February 2022 to March 2025) as a microwave subsystem supplier, part of an effort to build a UK quantum computing supply chain. Gateway to Research shows a grant offer of £14,951 against project costs of £21,358.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/diamond-microwave/" }, { "slug": "digital-catapult", "name": "Digital Catapult", "shortName": null, "entityType": "research", "categories": [], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5274, "longitude": -0.1335, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.digicatapult.org.uk", "shortSummary": "Runs the Quantum Technology Access Programme with the NQCC, giving firms such as NatWest hands-on quantum trials; IQN hub project partner.", "description": "Digital Catapult, the UK's innovation agency for advanced digital technology, helps organisations with no quantum background test whether the technology is worth pursuing. With the National Quantum Computing Centre's SparQ programme it runs the Quantum Technology Access Programme; the third cohort of 11 organisations, including NatWest, the Rail Safety and Standards Board and Pixon Chemie, began in July 2026 and runs to February 2027 with access to ORCA Computing's PT-2 photonic machine. It was also a partner in ORCA's Quantum Data Centre of the Future consortium (2022 to 2025) and is a project partner of the Integrated Quantum Networks hub.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 4, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/digital-catapult/" }, { "slug": "dstl", "name": "Dstl", "shortName": null, "entityType": "research", "categories": [ "Quantum-research", "Quantum-sensing", "Quantum-computing" ], "city": "Porton Down", "region": "South West", "latitude": 51.1298, "longitude": -1.7017, "founded": "2001", "website": "https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/defence-science-and-technology-laboratory", "shortSummary": "MoD science agency at Porton Down testing quantum clocks and navigation for UK forces, aiming for quantum navigation on aircraft by 2030.", "description": "Dstl, the Ministry of Defence's science and technology agency at Porton Down, funds and tests quantum technologies for the armed forces, with navigation and timing that does not depend on GPS as a priority. A trial it reported in February 2026 ran atomic clock components and complete devices unattended for long periods, helping manufacturers such as Far Field Exploits meet military robustness standards. A broader trial is planned for 2027, aiming at quantum navigation systems on an aircraft by 2030. Dstl was a partner in the 2019 to 2024 national hubs for quantum computing and for sensors and timing.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 3, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/dstl/" }, { "slug": "duality-quantum-photonics", "name": "Duality Quantum Photonics", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-photonics", "Quantum-hardware", "Quantum-components", "Quantum-communications" ], "city": "Bristol", "region": "South West", "latitude": 51.4553, "longitude": -2.6058, "founded": "2020", "website": "https://dualityqp.com", "shortSummary": "Bristol designer of thin-film lithium niobate photonic chips for quantum computing and fast signal processing, with NQCC and UKAEA projects.", "description": "Duality Quantum Photonics designs photonic chips in thin-film lithium niobate, aimed at fast signal processing and at photonic quantum computing. With the NQCC the Bristol company ran a proof of concept testing whether lithium niobate circuits could route the laser light that controls calcium ions in trapped-ion quantum computers. A separate UKAEA Fusion Industry Programme contract, announced in December 2023 and called TRONN, puts optical neural networks on its chips to detect hotspots in fusion magnets. It is also a partner in the Integrated Quantum Networks hub, and its directors are Anthony Laing and Alberto Politi.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 3, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/duality-quantum-photonics/" }, { "slug": "durham-university", "name": "Durham University", "shortName": null, "entityType": "university", "categories": [], "city": "Durham", "region": "North East", "latitude": 54.765, "longitude": -1.5782, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.durham.ac.uk", "shortSummary": "Durham's quantum strengths: ultracold-molecule simulators, a £10m EPSRC programme from 2026, two quantum fellowships and the QuSIT hub.", "description": "In March 2026 Durham physicist Simon Cornish won almost £10m from EPSRC for a national programme, with Birmingham, Imperial and King's College London, that arranges ultracold polar molecules in optical tweezers and lattices to build quantum simulators of materials. Quantum networking and photonics get attention too: two Durham researchers, Tobias Franzen and Liam Gallagher, were among the 11 EPSRC Quantum Technology Career Acceleration Fellows named in April 2025, working on ytterbium-ion quantum networking and on devices for entangling photons. The university is a partner in the Birmingham-led QuSIT hub and was in the earlier Quantum Computing and Simulation Hub.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 4, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/durham-university/" }, { "slug": "edwards-vacuum", "name": "Edwards Vacuum", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Cryogenics", "Quantum-components", "Quantum-hardware" ], "city": "Burgess Hill", "region": "South East", "latitude": 50.957, "longitude": -0.1314, "founded": "1919", "website": "https://www.edwardsvacuum.com", "shortSummary": "Burgess Hill vacuum engineering firm, part of Atlas Copco, building extreme high vacuum systems for Universal Quantum's trapped-ion computers.", "description": "Edwards Vacuum, headquartered in Burgess Hill and part of Atlas Copco since 2014, makes vacuum pumps and cryogenic equipment used in chipmaking and research. Its quantum work centres on trapped-ion computing: it joined Universal Quantum's Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund consortium in February 2022, taking charge of designing, building and commissioning the ultra-low-pressure chamber that houses the error-corrected processor. In December 2025 Atlas Copco signed a memorandum with Universal Quantum, carried out through Edwards, Leybold, Gamma and Montana Instruments, to co-develop vacuum systems for modular ion-trap machines and build UK and European supply chains.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/edwards-vacuum/" }, { "slug": "element-six", "name": "Element Six", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Diamond-nv", "Quantum-materials", "Quantum-components", "Quantum-sensing", "Quantum-photonics" ], "city": "Didcot", "region": "South East", "latitude": 51.5661, "longitude": -1.3099, "founded": "1946", "website": "https://e6.com", "shortSummary": "Harwell-based De Beers company making quantum-grade synthetic diamond with NV centres for sensors, masers and quantum networking.", "description": "Element Six grows synthetic diamond by chemical vapour deposition, and for quantum use it sells grades engineered to carry nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centres, the defects behind diamond magnetometers, RF sensors and masers. The De Beers Group company is based on Harwell Campus, where in September 2021 it launched DNV-B14, with more than ten times the NV density of its earlier DNV-B1. Its newer work targets scale and networking: quantum-grade diamond films bonded to silicon with IonQ in September 2025, and a reproducible 3-inch single-crystal wafer process with Orbray in June 2026.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 2, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/element-six/" }, { "slug": "eluxi", "name": "ELUXI", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-components", "Quantum-photonics" ], "city": "Loughborough", "region": "East Midlands", "latitude": 52.7684, "longitude": -1.2085, "founded": "2011", "website": "http://www.eluxi.co.uk", "shortSummary": "Company in Loughborough working on quantum components and photonics, founded 2011.", "description": null, "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/eluxi/" }, { "slug": "epsrc", "name": "Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council", "shortName": null, "entityType": "funder", "categories": [], "city": "Swindon", "region": "South West", "latitude": 51.5679, "longitude": -1.7853, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.ukri.org/councils/epsrc/", "shortSummary": "The UKRI research council behind the UK's five quantum research hubs, the NQCC's founding budget and quantum fellowships and skills.", "description": "Most of the UK's university quantum research is paid for by EPSRC, the UKRI council for engineering and the physical sciences, based in Swindon. It is the main funder of the five national quantum research hubs that started in December 2024 (QCi3, IQN, QuSIT, QEPNT and Q-BIOMED), worth roughly £22m to £24m each, and with STFC it provided the NQCC's initial £93m. People are the other strand: 11 Quantum Technology Career Acceleration Fellowships worth £15m were announced in April 2025, and a single Centre for Quantum Commercialisation Skills, worth up to £11.3m, is due to start in December 2026.", "projectsLed": 2, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 15, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/epsrc/" }, { "slug": "evelina-london-childrens-hospital", "name": "Evelina London Children's Hospital", "shortName": null, "entityType": "government", "categories": [], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.4985, "longitude": -0.1189, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.evelinalondon.nhs.uk", "shortSummary": "Evelina London Children's Hospital is an NHS children's hospital run by Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.", "description": null, "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/evelina-london-childrens-hospital/" }, { "slug": "ey", "name": "EY", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.505, "longitude": -0.081, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.ey.com", "shortSummary": "EY in UK quantum: first commercial user of BT and Toshiba's London QKD network, and author of quantum readiness surveys with the NQCC.", "description": "When BT and Toshiba launched their quantum-secured metro network in London in April 2022, EY signed up as its first commercial customer, using quantum key distribution over Openreach fibre to link its offices in Canary Wharf and near London Bridge. The firm also tracks how British business is preparing for quantum computing through readiness surveys run with the National Quantum Computing Centre. Its June 2026 Quantum Business Readiness Report polled 500 leaders of UK companies with revenues above £150m: 87% expected quantum to disrupt their industry by 2030, yet only 35% had made it a strategic priority.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/ey/" }, { "slug": "filtronic", "name": "Filtronic", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-hardware", "Quantum-components", "Cryogenics", "Quantum-control" ], "city": "Sedgefield", "region": "North East", "latitude": 54.653, "longitude": -1.452, "founded": "1977", "website": "https://filtronic.com", "shortSummary": "County Durham RF maker supplying microwave filters and diplexers for the control racks and dilution refrigerators of superconducting quantum computers.", "description": "Superconducting quantum computers are driven by microwave signals, and Filtronic supplies some of the filters and diplexers that clean those signals up. The County Durham RF specialist, listed on AIM, won a £0.35m order in June 2022 from an unnamed quantum computing firm for parts used both in the room-temperature control rack and inside the dilution refrigerator. Under NPL's Measurement for Quantum programme, its filter modules were tested at temperatures down to 500 millikelvin, giving it validated design rules for cryogenic use. In February 2026 it opened a new 44,000 sq ft site at NETPark, Sedgefield, combining head office and factory, to expand its satellite, space and defence production.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/filtronic/" }, { "slug": "firgun-ventures", "name": "Firgun Ventures", "shortName": null, "entityType": "investor", "categories": [ "Quantum-investment", "Quantum-computing", "Quantum-hardware", "Quantum-software" ], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5074, "longitude": -0.1278, "founded": "2024", "website": "https://firgun.vc/", "shortSummary": "London quantum-only VC fund targeting $250m; invested in Quantum Motion's Series C and co-led Universal Quantum's $100m+ Series A in 2026.", "description": "Firgun Ventures is a London venture fund that invests only in quantum technology. In November 2025 it announced a $70 million first close towards a $250 million fund, anchored by the Qatar Investment Authority with Cambridge Quantum founder Ilyas Khan among its early backers. After backing Photonic Inc and Quantum Elements in North America, it made its first European investment in May 2026 as one of nine investors in Quantum Motion's $160 million Series C. In October 2026 it co-led, with DCVC, Universal Quantum's Series A of more than $100 million, reported as the largest such round for a UK-headquartered quantum computing company.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-10", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/firgun-ventures/" }, { "slug": "fraunhofer-cap", "name": "Fraunhofer Centre for Applied Photonics", "shortName": null, "entityType": "research", "categories": [], "city": "Glasgow", "region": "Scotland", "latitude": 55.8617, "longitude": -4.237, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.fraunhofer.co.uk", "shortSummary": "Glasgow's Fraunhofer centre for applied photonics, which led the QT Assemble consortium on compact quantum components and won £8m from DSIT in 2025.", "description": "Fraunhofer CAP, the first Fraunhofer research centre in the UK, opened in Glasgow in 2012 and builds laser and optical systems for industry, including the light sources, detectors and cold-atom parts that quantum devices rely on. It led QT Assemble, a Quantum Technologies Challenge consortium of 13 partners, among them Aegiq, Covesion and INEX Microtechnology, that worked on shrinking and integrating those components. In December 2025 DSIT committed £8 million over four years to the centre, which sits in Strathclyde's Technology and Innovation Centre and also receives core funding from the Scottish Government and Scottish Enterprise.", "projectsLed": 2, "projectsPartner": 9, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/fraunhofer-cap/" }, { "slug": "frazer-nash-consultancy", "name": "Frazer-Nash Consultancy", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [], "city": "Leatherhead", "region": "South East", "latitude": 51.2967, "longitude": -0.3317, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.fnc.co.uk", "shortSummary": "KBR-owned Leatherhead consultancy that ran offshore wind farm optimisation on ORCA photonic hardware with The Crown Estate under NQCC SparQ.", "description": "Offshore wind planning is where this Leatherhead engineering consultancy, owned by KBR since 2021, has tested quantum computing. Under the NQCC's SparQ programme it worked with ORCA Computing, The Crown Estate and the NQCC on two optimisation problems: choosing locations for new offshore wind farms and arranging turbines within a farm. Both were run on ORCA's PT Series photonic hardware, and the NQCC's 2025 use case compendium notes that this was among the larger problems solved on that type of machine, while benchmarking against classical methods was left for later feasibility work.", "projectsLed": 1, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/frazer-nash-consultancy/" }, { "slug": "geomatrix-earth-science", "name": "Geomatrix Earth Science", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [], "city": "Leighton Buzzard", "region": "East of England", "latitude": 51.9089, "longitude": -0.6545, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.geomatrix.co.uk", "shortSummary": "UK supplier of geophysical survey instruments that was a partner in the Gravity Pioneer consortium.", "description": null, "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/geomatrix-earth-science/" }, { "slug": "gooch-and-housego", "name": "Gooch & Housego", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [], "city": "Ilminster", "region": "South West", "latitude": 50.927, "longitude": -2.911, "founded": null, "website": "https://gandh.com", "shortSummary": "Somerset photonics maker whose acousto-optic deflectors and fibre modulators steer the lasers in neutral-atom quantum computers.", "description": "Gooch & Housego's main quantum products are acousto-optic deflectors and fibre-coupled modulators, sold for neutral-atom quantum computing, sensing and atomic clocks. The company says its AODF 4085 deflectors were cited in Nature papers on systems of 3,000 and 6,100 qubits, and it makes them in its Photonics division, which has UK sites in Torquay and Ashford. In 2020 it joined QT Assemble, a £10m Quantum Technologies Challenge consortium led by Fraunhofer CAP in Glasgow, to develop fibre-coupled acousto-optic and waveguide parts for compact quantum laser systems. It exhibited its quantum range at Optica Quantum 2.0 in Glasgow in June 2026.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 3, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/gooch-and-housego/" }, { "slug": "gchq", "name": "Government Communications Headquarters", "shortName": null, "entityType": "government", "categories": [], "city": "Cheltenham", "region": "South West", "latitude": 51.8994, "longitude": -2.1243, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.gchq.gov.uk", "shortSummary": "UK intelligence and cyber agency, a founding partner of the National Quantum Technologies Programme, whose NCSC sets the UK's post-quantum migration dates.", "description": "GCHQ, the Cheltenham intelligence, security and cyber agency, was one of the government bodies that set up the National Quantum Technologies Programme in 2014. Its main quantum concern is defensive: keeping UK cryptography safe once large quantum computers arrive. Its National Cyber Security Centre, the UK authority on quantum-safe cryptography, has published advice on quantum key distribution since November 2016 and has set post-quantum migration targets, with the highest-priority systems to move by 2031 and all systems by 2035. In a 2019 speech its technology director general also offered GCHQ's real problems and data as a proving ground for new quantum computing devices.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/gchq/" }, { "slug": "gp-bullhound", "name": "GP Bullhound", "shortName": null, "entityType": "investor", "categories": [ "Quantum-investment", "Quantum-software", "Quantum-computing" ], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5074, "longitude": -0.1278, "founded": "1999", "website": "https://www.gpbullhound.com", "shortSummary": "London tech investment bank whose Bullhound Capital led Oxford Quantum Circuits' £260m Series C and Q-CTRL's $113m Series B.", "description": "GP Bullhound, a London technology investment bank founded in 1999, backs quantum companies through its investment arm Bullhound Capital. It led the $113m Series B of the quantum control software firm Q-CTRL in October 2024, with co-founder Per Roman joining the Q-CTRL board. Oxford Quantum Circuits' oversubscribed £260m Series C in June 2026 was also a Bullhound Capital lead, described as Europe's largest private quantum computing round, alongside the British Business Bank and others.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/gp-bullhound/" }, { "slug": "gsk-quantum", "name": "GSK", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-pharma", "Quantum-optimization", "Quantum-machine-learning", "Post-quantum-cryptography" ], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.4893335, "longitude": -0.1440551, "founded": "2020", "website": "https://www.gsk.com", "shortSummary": "GSK's UK quantum work: an NQCC drug-reactivity proof of concept with Capgemini, a QCS hub partnership, and post-quantum cryptography planning.", "description": "The British drugmaker's most concrete UK quantum computing work is an NQCC proof of concept led by Capgemini UK, which used Hamiltonian simulation to build a \"quantum fingerprint\" for predicting how reactive the warheads of targeted covalent drugs are, tested so far mostly on simulators. GSK was also a project partner in the Oxford-led Quantum Computing and Simulation Hub (2019 to 2024). Its public quantum messaging has since shifted to defence: chief information security officer Michael Elmore argued in May 2026 that crypto-agility is needed now because encrypted data is already being harvested for later decryption.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/gsk-quantum/" }, { "slug": "hashberg", "name": "Hashberg", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-software", "Quantum-algorithms" ], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5145, "longitude": -0.1252, "founded": "2019", "website": "https://hashberg.io", "shortSummary": "London deep-tech foundry whose quantum arm, run by Oxford's Stefano Gogioso, builds quantum programming tools including the pauliopt circuit library.", "description": "Hashberg's quantum work is software, led by co-founder Stefano Gogioso, an Oxford computer science lecturer who heads its effort on high-level quantum programming tools. What the public can see is pauliopt, an AGPL-3.0 Python library for simplifying circuits built from phase and Pauli gadgets, still described by its authors as pre-alpha. The London firm, registered in 2019, calls itself a deep-tech foundry spanning quantum, AI, finance, Web3 and gaming, and lists Spooqy as its public quantum venture.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/hashberg/" }, { "slug": "heriot-watt-university", "name": "Heriot-Watt University", "shortName": null, "entityType": "university", "categories": [], "city": "Edinburgh", "region": "Scotland", "latitude": 55.9097, "longitude": -3.3203, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.hw.ac.uk", "shortSummary": "Edinburgh university at the head of the £21.9m Integrated Quantum Networks Hub and the SPOQC quantum key distribution CubeSat launched in March 2026.", "description": "Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh leads the Integrated Quantum Networks (IQN) Hub, a £21.9m EPSRC grant running from December 2024 to November 2029 under director Gerald Buller, which develops quantum networks from local fibre links to satellites. The hub's SPOQC mission, a 12U CubeSat carrying a single-photon source and a continuous-variable source, launched on 30 March 2026 to exchange keys with an optical ground station on the Edinburgh campus. Heriot-Watt is also a partner in three other national hubs: Q-BIOMED, QuSIT and QEPNT.", "projectsLed": 2, "projectsPartner": 8, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/heriot-watt-university/" }, { "slug": "hitachi-europe", "name": "Hitachi Europe", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [], "city": "Stoke Poges", "region": "South East", "latitude": 51.5466, "longitude": -0.5833, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.hitachi.eu", "shortSummary": "Hitachi Europe's Cambridge lab researches silicon spin qubits with the Cavendish Laboratory and was a hardware partner in Riverlane's NISQ.OS project.", "description": "Hitachi's UK quantum work runs through the Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory, part of Hitachi Europe, which studies qubits made from the spins of single electrons in silicon transistors cooled to very low temperatures. The lab has worked with the University of Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory for three decades, and a partnership renewed in November 2019 set a practical quantum computer as the shared goal. Hitachi Europe was also a hardware partner in Riverlane's NISQ.OS consortium (2020 to 2023), developing processor firmware to connect with the Deltaflow.OS operating system, with a grant offer of £116,628.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/hitachi-europe/" }, { "slug": "hsbc", "name": "HSBC", "shortName": null, "entityType": "investor", "categories": [ "Quantum-finance", "Quantum-algorithms", "Quantum-simulation", "Quantum-optimization", "Post-quantum-cryptography" ], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5074, "longitude": -0.1278, "founded": "1865", "website": "https://www.hsbc.com", "shortSummary": "HSBC trials quantum key distribution on London's quantum-secured metro network and quantum algorithms for bond trading with IBM.", "description": "HSBC tests quantum computing on trading and pricing problems and quantum key distribution on its own networks. It was the first bank on the BT and Toshiba quantum-secured metro network in London, and in December 2023 used it to protect a €30m euro-dollar trade on its AI Markets terminal over 63km of fibre to its Slough data centre. With IBM it reported in September 2025 that a hybrid quantum-classical model improved bond fill-rate predictions by up to 34% in back-tests on Heron processors. It is also a partner in the BT-led QAssure project.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 2, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/hsbc/" }, { "slug": "iceoxford", "name": "ICEoxford", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Cryogenics", "Quantum-components", "Quantum-infrastructure" ], "city": "Witney", "region": "South East", "latitude": 51.78388, "longitude": -1.48529, "founded": "2004", "website": "https://iceoxford.com", "shortSummary": "Witney cryogenics firm building cryostats for quantum labs and running ColdCycle, a server-rack cryostat to control silicon qubits at scale.", "description": "Cryostats are the whole business at ICEoxford in Witney, Oxfordshire: wet and dry systems from 77K down to dilution temperatures, with magnets and low-vibration designs. Quantum labs are a stated market, from ion traps and silicon qubits to superconducting nanowire photon detectors. With Photonic Inc it worked on a high-reliability cryogenic platform for quantum computing (Innovate UK, December 2023 to October 2025), and it is now in charge of ColdCycle, a £367,034 project to March 2027 for a compact cryostat that fits a server rack and houses the control electronics for silicon qubits at scale.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/iceoxford/" }, { "slug": "imperial-college-london", "name": "Imperial College London", "shortName": null, "entityType": "university", "categories": [ "Quantum-research", "Quantum-education", "Quantum-photonics", "Quantum-materials", "Quantum-control" ], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.4988, "longitude": -0.1749, "founded": "1907", "website": "https://www.imperial.ac.uk", "shortSummary": "Imperial's quantum work spans ship-borne cold-atom navigation, the AION atom interferometry project and three UK quantum research hubs.", "description": "Imperial's Centre for Cold Matter built Aphrodite, a transportable accelerometer that uses matter-wave interference to navigate ships without satellite signals, and the Royal Navy trialled it at sea on the XV Patrick Blackett. The college also leads AION, a UK atom interferometry collaboration hunting gravitational waves and dark matter; in June 2026 the team reported in Nature that comparing two strontium interferometers cancels shared noise. Imperial is a partner in the IQN, QuSIT and QEPNT research hubs, and its QuEST centre links quantum groups across departments.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 9, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/imperial-college-london/" }, { "slug": "inex-microtechnology", "name": "INEX Microtechnology", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [], "city": "Newcastle upon Tyne", "region": "North East", "latitude": 54.9783, "longitude": -1.6178, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.inex.co.uk", "shortSummary": "Newcastle compound semiconductor and MEMS fab that led the Q-Cell project on wafer vapour cells for atomic clocks and sensors; QT Assemble partner.", "description": "INEX Microtechnology runs a compound semiconductor and MEMS fabrication plant in Newcastle upon Tyne, making gallium nitride, indium antimonide and silicon carbide devices for defence, communications and power electronics. Its quantum work centres on the vapour cells inside atomic sensors: it led Q-Cell (December 2021 to May 2023), a £392,000 feasibility study with NPL and the University of Birmingham to build silicon wafer cells with temperature and magnetic field control built in, for miniature atomic clocks, magnetometers and inertial sensors. It was also one of 13 partners in the Fraunhofer-led QT Assemble programme on compact quantum components.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 2, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/inex-microtechnology/" }, { "slug": "infleqtion-uk", "name": "Infleqtion UK (ColdQuanta UK Ltd)", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [], "city": "Oxford", "region": "South East", "latitude": 51.829, "longitude": -1.307, "founded": null, "website": "https://infleqtion.com", "shortSummary": "Oxford arm of neutral-atom firm Infleqtion: builder of an NQCC testbed, deliverer of a 100-qubit system to Harwell in 2026, and expanding at Oxford Tech Park.", "description": "Infleqtion UK, registered as ColdQuanta UK Ltd, is the British arm of the US neutral-atom company Infleqtion, which traps arrays of cold atoms with lasers for both computing and sensing and has worked in Oxford since 2014. It built a neutral-atom testbed for the National Quantum Computing Centre's 2024 testbed programme and in May 2026 delivered a 100-physical-qubit system to the centre at Harwell. It also won one of 14 Innovate UK sensing and navigation contracts in November 2025, and in September 2026 expanded its Oxford Technology Park site to house a Quantum Innovation Centre for research, production and systems integration.", "projectsLed": 1, "projectsPartner": 7, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/infleqtion-uk/" }, { "slug": "innovate-uk", "name": "Innovate UK", "shortName": null, "entityType": "funder", "categories": [], "city": "Swindon", "region": "South West", "latitude": 51.5664, "longitude": -1.785, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.ukri.org/councils/innovate-uk/", "shortSummary": "UKRI's business funder for quantum, behind the Commercialising Quantum Technologies Challenge, the Quantum Missions pilot and ProQure.", "description": "Innovate UK runs the business-facing side of UK quantum funding, turning DSIT and UKRI money into grants and contracts for companies. It delivered the Commercialising Quantum Technologies Challenge (2018 to 2025, £174 million of public money), the 2025 Quantum Missions pilot and a £14 million round of quantum sensing and navigation contracts. Its biggest live call is phase 1 of ProQure: up to 10 contracts worth up to £14 million each to build and validate prototype quantum computers, with projects due to start in October 2026.", "projectsLed": 7, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 26, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/innovate-uk/" }, { "slug": "ip-group", "name": "IP Group", "shortName": null, "entityType": "investor", "categories": [ "Quantum-investment", "Quantum-research", "Quantum-hardware", "Quantum-computing" ], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5074, "longitude": -0.1278, "founded": "2001", "website": "https://www.ipgroupplc.com", "shortSummary": "London-listed university commercialisation firm that ran a £12m UKRI-backed quantum investment partnership and backed Quantum Motion and OQC.", "description": "IP Group, the London-listed company that builds businesses from university research, had already invested in quantum hardware companies including Quantum Motion and Oxford Quantum Circuits when UKRI selected it in August 2020 to run its Investment Partnership in Quantum Technology, a £12 million scheme. Funded through the Commercialising Quantum Technologies Challenge, the scheme paired up to £6 million of grants with at least matching equity, and was open to existing start-ups and to academics yet to form a company. Its fund management arm, Parkwalk Advisors, co-led Phasecraft's £750,000 pre-seed round in 2019.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/ip-group/" }, { "slug": "iqe", "name": "IQE", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [], "city": "Cardiff", "region": "Wales", "latitude": 51.5309, "longitude": -3.088, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.iqep.com", "shortSummary": "Cardiff compound semiconductor wafer maker whose quantum work came through the AQuaSeC and QFoundry consortia.", "description": "IQE grows compound semiconductor epitaxial wafers in gallium arsenide, indium phosphide, gallium nitride and gallium antimonide, and quantum is a small corner of a business driven mainly by data centre and communications photonics. From its Cardiff headquarters it took part in two Innovate UK quantum consortia: Toshiba's AQuaSeC project on quantum-safe communications, and QFoundry, which from September 2020 worked towards an open-access UK foundry for VCSELs, single-photon emitters and detectors. IQE belongs to the CSconnected semiconductor cluster in South Wales, and in September 2026 it reported 43% half-year revenue growth and plans to move from AIM to the London Stock Exchange's Main Market.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 4, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/iqe/" }, { "slug": "isispace", "name": "ISISPACE", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [], "city": "Delft", "region": null, "latitude": 52.0116, "longitude": 4.3571, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.isispace.nl", "shortSummary": "Dutch small-satellite maker that built and supports SPOQC, the UK quantum key distribution CubeSat launched in March 2026.", "description": "ISISPACE, a small-satellite manufacturer in Delft, supplied the spacecraft for the UK's first quantum key distribution CubeSat. The UK Quantum Communications Hub awarded it the SPOQC mission in November 2022, and the 12U satellite, carrying a quantum transmitter built by the University of Bristol, launched on a SpaceX Transporter-16 rocket on 30 March 2026. The Heriot-Watt-led IQN Hub now runs the mission, sending quantum signals to an optical ground station in Edinburgh.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/isispace/" }, { "slug": "johnson-matthey", "name": "Johnson Matthey", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5167, "longitude": -0.1045, "founded": null, "website": "https://matthey.com", "shortSummary": "Johnson Matthey's quantum work: catalyst simulation algorithms with Riverlane, an NQCC fuel cell catalyst project with Q-CTRL, and Phasecraft's ARPA-E award.", "description": "Johnson Matthey wants quantum computers to help it design catalysts. With Cambridge software firm Riverlane it published quantum algorithms in Physical Review Research in March 2023 for simulating catalyst materials such as nickel oxide and palladium oxide on future error-corrected machines. Its technology centres then partnered Q-CTRL and the NQCC on a SparQ proof of concept that ran Q-CTRL's Fire Opal software on IBM hardware to find where nitrogen atoms should sit in graphene, a candidate replacement for costly platinum-group fuel cell catalysts. In June 2026 Phasecraft named it a partner on a roughly $4.5m ARPA-E award for quantum algorithms in catalyst discovery.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 2, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/johnson-matthey/" }, { "slug": "kelvin-nanotechnology", "name": "Kelvin Nanotechnology", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-components", "Quantum-photonics", "Quantum-hardware", "Quantum-sensing" ], "city": "Glasgow", "region": "Scotland", "latitude": 55.8721, "longitude": -4.2889, "founded": "1997", "website": "https://kntnano.com", "shortSummary": "University of Glasgow nanofabrication arm making grating MOT chips, ion traps, MEMS gravimeters and lasers for quantum sensing and computing.", "description": "Chip-scale parts for cold-atom and trapped-ion systems come out of Kelvin Nanotechnology (KNT), which sells the services of the University of Glasgow's James Watt Nanofabrication Centre to industry. Its catalogue includes grating magneto-optical trap chips that laser-cool rubidium atoms with a single beam, 3D ion traps, MEMS gravimeters and DFB lasers, built on electron beam lithography. KNT was one of five industry partners in DISCOVERY, the M Squared-led programme launched in November 2020 on photonics for scaling quantum computers, and is a partner in the Glasgow-led QEPNT navigation hub. In July 2025 the university reported KNT had served more than 170 clients in 23 countries over three years.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 3, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/kelvin-nanotechnology/" }, { "slug": "kets-quantum-security", "name": "KETS Quantum Security", "shortName": "KETS", "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-communications", "Qkd", "Post-quantum-cryptography", "Quantum-components", "Qrng" ], "city": "Bristol", "region": "South West", "latitude": 51.4545, "longitude": -2.5879, "founded": "2016", "website": "https://kets-quantum.com", "shortSummary": "Bristol maker of chip-based quantum key distribution and random number generators, now integrated with Nokia and Cisco network equipment.", "description": "KETS Quantum Security, a University of Bristol spin-out based in Kingswood, makes chip-based quantum key distribution (QKD) systems and quantum random number generators. BT has trialled its server-sized QKD v2.0 unit. In April 2026 Nokia added the unit to the travelling quantum-safe demonstration kit it shows to operators and governments, and in September 2026 KETS showed it exchanging keys with Cisco routers running IOS XR. UK projects include the BT-led QAssure work on QKD assurance and the IQN quantum networks hub.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 5, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/kets-quantum-security/" }, { "slug": "kings-college-london", "name": "King's College London", "shortName": null, "entityType": "university", "categories": [], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5115, "longitude": -0.116, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.kcl.ac.uk", "shortSummary": "King's College London's quantum work: the King's Quantum centre, NQCC SparQ projects on corrosion and ICU care, and Willow processor access.", "description": "King's Quantum, launched in April 2024 and directed by physicist James Millen, gathers the Strand university's quantum researchers around applications in healthcare, life sciences, security and industry. Much of its project work is applied computing through the NQCC: King's partnered with Capgemini and Airbus on QuantiCo, which modelled corrosion on aluminium alloys, and with Applied Quantum Computing on hybrid models for predicting risk in intensive care. In May 2026 a team led by Eleanor Crane won time on Google Quantum AI's Willow processor, through an NQCC scheme, to study quantum analogues of neurons. King's is also a partner in BT's QAssure project on testing quantum key distribution.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 4, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/kings-college-london/" }, { "slug": "kuano", "name": "Kuano", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-software", "Quantum-algorithms", "Quantum-simulation", "Quantum-chemistry", "Quantum-pharma" ], "city": "Cambridge", "region": "East of England", "latitude": 52.2053, "longitude": 0.1218, "founded": "2020", "website": "https://kuano.ai", "shortSummary": "Cambridge drug discovery company using quantum-mechanical simulation in its Quantum Lens platform to design covalent drugs and enzyme inhibitors.", "description": "Kuano uses quantum-mechanical simulation of molecules, rather than quantum computers, to guide drug design. Its Quantum Lens platform analyses electronic structure to help design covalent drugs and inhibitors for hard-to-drug enzymes and shallow binding pockets. The company works from Mill SciTech Park at Hauxton near Cambridge, and in 2021 it completed the quantum stream of the Creative Destruction Lab in Toronto with simulation software for enzyme inhibitors in pharmaceuticals and herbicides.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/kuano/" }, { "slug": "loughborough-university", "name": "Loughborough University", "shortName": null, "entityType": "university", "categories": [], "city": "Loughborough", "region": "East Midlands", "latitude": 52.765, "longitude": -1.2321, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.lboro.ac.uk", "shortSummary": "Loughborough develops microcomb lasers for portable atomic clocks in the QEPNT hub and partnered in BT's QAssure project on QKD assurance.", "description": "Loughborough's main quantum contribution is to timing. Within the £21.9 million QEPNT navigation hub, Alessia Pasquazi's Emergent Photonics Research Centre is developing microcombs, chip-scale lasers that could act as the counting element in portable optical atomic clocks. On the communications side, the university was a partner in BT's Innovate UK-funded QAssure project on assuring QKD systems (April 2024 to March 2026). In July 2026 its researchers, working with Lancaster University, described a model-based framework for building digital twins of quantum networks using the SysML v2 engineering language.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 2, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/loughborough-university/" }, { "slug": "lumino-technologies", "name": "Lumino Technologies", "shortName": null, "entityType": "startup", "categories": [ "Quantum-communications", "Qkd", "Quantum-networking", "Quantum-photonics" ], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5074, "longitude": -0.1278, "founded": "2024", "website": "https://lumino-tech.co.uk/", "shortSummary": "London start-up building entangled photon sources and quantum optical ground receivers for satellite links, including the ESA-funded FALQON receiver.", "description": "Lumino Technologies builds hardware for sending quantum signals through open air and via satellites, from entangled photon sources to optical ground receivers. The London firm, incorporated in March 2024, led QNET-EPS, an Innovate UK project worth £1.1 million, with Alter, RedWave Labs, Vodafone and Heriot-Watt University that turned a benchtop entangled photon source into an industrial prototype within a year; it finished in June 2026. A month later Lumino started FALQON, a European Space Agency ARTES 4.0 contract for a compact quantum receiver that will be tested at Heriot-Watt's optical ground station against the OPS-SAT VOLT spacecraft.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 2, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/lumino-technologies/" }, { "slug": "m-squared-lasers", "name": "M Squared Lasers", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-sensing", "Quantum-control", "Neutral-atom", "Quantum-hardware", "Quantum-components", "Photonic" ], "city": "Glasgow", "region": "Scotland", "latitude": 55.8642, "longitude": -4.2518, "founded": "2006", "website": null, "shortSummary": "Former Glasgow laser maker behind the SolsTiS platform and the Maxwell neutral-atom prototype; in administration since August 2025, assets sold to Novacene.", "description": "M Squared Lasers made precision lasers in Glasgow, and its SolsTiS tunable platform became a common tool in cold-atom quantum labs. It led DISCOVERY, a £7.2m Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund consortium (2020 to 2024) with Oxford Ionics, ORCA, NPL and others, working on the lasers, vacuum hardware and electronics needed to scale atom and ion quantum computers. In November 2022 it showed Maxwell, a neutral-atom prototype built with the University of Strathclyde. The company went into administration in August 2025 with 28 jobs lost, and by November 2025 Interpath had sold its intellectual property and other assets to Novacene Photonics.", "projectsLed": 1, "projectsPartner": 4, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/m-squared-lasers/" }, { "slug": "magnetic-shields", "name": "Magnetic Shields", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-components", "Quantum-sensing", "Magnetometers" ], "city": "Staplehurst", "region": "South East", "latitude": 51.16366, "longitude": 0.55621, "founded": "1957", "website": "https://magneticshields.co.uk", "shortSummary": "Kent manufacturer of magnetically shielded rooms and enclosures for quantum sensors, including wearable OPM-MEG brain scanners, trading since 1957.", "description": "Shielding equipment against stray magnetic fields has been the business of Magnetic Shields Limited in Staplehurst, Kent, since its incorporation in 1957. For quantum work it supplies MuRoom shielded rooms and enclosures, including the shielding used with Cerca's wearable OPM-MEG brain scanner. Innovate UK funded it to lead QT-Shield (March 2017 to May 2018), on compact shielding for portable quantum systems, and then a £3.75m ISCF consortium from July 2020 to May 2024 that applied quantum magnetometers to testing lithium battery cells, alongside the universities of Sussex and Strathclyde.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 2, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/magnetic-shields/" }, { "slug": "medicines-discovery-catapult", "name": "Medicines Discovery Catapult", "shortName": null, "entityType": "research", "categories": [], "city": "Alderley Park", "region": "North West", "latitude": 53.2776, "longitude": -2.2301, "founded": null, "website": "https://md.catapult.org.uk", "shortSummary": "Alderley Park drug discovery Catapult that mapped where quantum computers could help medicines research in the SEEQC-led QuPharma project.", "description": "Quantum computing work at the Alderley Park drug discovery Catapult centres on QuPharma, a SEEQC-led Innovate UK project that ran from March 2022 to March 2025. The consortium paired a SEEQC quantum computer with a classical supercomputer to model drug properties, and the Catapult's job, alongside Merck and the University of Oxford, was to find the stages of drug discovery where a quantum computer could actually help. Gateway to Research shows it received a full grant of £243,588.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/medicines-discovery-catapult/" }, { "slug": "merck", "name": "Merck", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [], "city": "Darmstadt", "region": null, "latitude": 49.8728, "longitude": 8.6512, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.merckgroup.com", "shortSummary": "German science group that backed SEEQC through M Ventures and was the pharmaceutical end user in the UK QuPharma quantum computing consortium.", "description": "Merck KGaA, the Darmstadt science and technology group, approaches quantum computing as a future user in drug and materials research and as an investor. Its venture arm, M Ventures, put $5 million into superconducting quantum computing company SEEQC in April 2020, when Merck was also named a strategic partner. That link reached the UK through QuPharma (March 2022 to March 2025), a £5 million SEEQC UK-led consortium with Riverlane, STFC, Oxford and the Medicines Discovery Catapult, in which Merck helped choose drug discovery problems to run on a quantum computer working alongside an STFC supercomputer.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/merck/" }, { "slug": "microchip-technology-caldicot", "name": "Microchip Technology Caldicot", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [], "city": "Caldicot", "region": "Wales", "latitude": 51.591, "longitude": -2.752, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.microchip.com", "shortSummary": "Welsh semiconductor site of Microchip Technology that took part in the QFoundry consortium.", "description": null, "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/microchip-technology-caldicot/" }, { "slug": "mind-foundry", "name": "Mind Foundry", "shortName": null, "entityType": "startup", "categories": [], "city": "Oxford", "region": "South East", "latitude": 51.7319, "longitude": -1.2047, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.mindfoundry.ai", "shortSummary": "Oxford machine learning firm that worked on automated qubit tuning in the Riverlane-led AutoQT project and a 2026 Nature Electronics paper.", "description": "Mind Foundry, an Oxford machine learning firm now focused on defence and national security, has applied its Bayesian optimisation work to the slow job of tuning qubits. It was a partner in AutoQT, a £5.3m Riverlane-led consortium that ran from March 2022 to March 2025 to automate the calibration of hundreds of qubits, with a grant offer of about £698,000. Mind Foundry researchers co-authored a Nature Electronics paper, published in March 2026 with the University of Oxford and the University of Basel, reporting fully autonomous tuning of a germanium-silicon nanowire spin qubit from a grounded device to Rabi oscillations.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/mind-foundry/" }, { "slug": "ministry-of-defence", "name": "Ministry of Defence", "shortName": null, "entityType": "government", "categories": [], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.504, "longitude": -0.125, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-defence", "shortSummary": "The MoD trials quantum navigation and timing at sea through Dstl and the Royal Navy, from cold-atom accelerometers to radar-linked quantum clocks.", "description": "Defence interest in quantum centres on navigation and timing that keep working when satellite signals are jammed or spoofed. In a 2024 trial run by the Ministry of Defence's Office of the Chief Technology Officer, a cold-atom quantum accelerometer built with the University of Birmingham and Dstl went to sea on the ship Hurst Point. In August 2026 the Royal Navy's Disruptive Capabilities and Technologies Office reported synchronising Saab Giraffe 1X radars with Aquark Technologies' AQlock quantum clocks aboard XV Patrick Blackett. The MoD is a partner in the UK National Quantum Technologies Programme, and Dstl is its main quantum research arm.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 1, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/ministry-of-defence/" }, { "slug": "mode-labs", "name": "Mode Labs", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-photonics", "Quantum-applications" ], "city": "Oxford", "region": "South East", "latitude": 51.752, "longitude": -1.2577, "founded": "2023", "website": "https://modelabs.tech", "shortSummary": "Oxford spin-out using quantum-computing microcavities to make low-power river sensors for phosphorus and ammonia; Ofwat Water Discovery Challenge finalist.", "description": "Optical microcavities first built for quantum computing research at Oxford sit at the heart of Mode Labs' chemical sensors, which target water quality. Its first products monitor total phosphorus and ammonia in rivers, a market shaped by the Environment Act 2021, and the company says they need a thousandth of the reagent and a four-hundredth of the power of existing kit. Spun out of Oxford's chemistry and materials departments, it closed a £3m round in 2025 with Oxford Science Enterprises as lead investor. In 2026 Ofwat's Water Discovery Challenge named it one of 20 finalists, with £100,000 to trial its CERES monitoring platform.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/mode-labs/" }, { "slug": "molten-ventures", "name": "Molten Ventures", "shortName": null, "entityType": "investor", "categories": [ "Quantum-investment" ], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5074, "longitude": -0.1278, "founded": "2006", "website": "https://www.moltenventures.com", "shortSummary": "London-listed venture capital firm whose quantum exposure is Riverlane, the Cambridge error correction company whose £15m Series B it led in 2023.", "description": "Molten Ventures' June 2026 annual report names Riverlane, the Cambridge maker of quantum error correction software, as its way into quantum, arguing that error correction is the layer every hardware approach depends on. The London-listed venture investor led Riverlane's £15m Series B in April 2023, with Altair joining and existing backers including Amadeus and the National Security Strategic Investment Fund following on. In August 2024 Molten reported that Riverlane had closed a $75m Series C at a valuation above the value Molten had placed on its stake that March.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/molten-ventures/" }, { "slug": "monirail", "name": "MoniRail", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [], "city": "Birmingham", "region": "West Midlands", "latitude": 52.4508, "longitude": -1.9305, "founded": null, "website": "https://monirail.co.uk", "shortSummary": "Birmingham rail monitoring spin-out heading a quantum inertial navigation system for trains, trialled on a Great Northern mainline service in March 2026.", "description": "Train-mounted sensors are MoniRail's core product: inertial units fitted to in-service passenger trains log track geometry and ride quality for predictive maintenance, a business that came out of the ICURe programme at the University of Birmingham. Its quantum project is a satellite-free positioning system for trains in tunnels. A Quantum Catalyst Fund phase 2 contract in February 2024 backed the work, with Imperial College London, the University of Sussex, QinetiQ, PA Consulting and Transport for London in the consortium. On 3 March 2026 its Rail Quantum Inertial Navigation System ran on a Great Northern service between London and Welwyn Garden City, under GBRX.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 2, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/monirail/" }, { "slug": "moth-quantum", "name": "Moth Quantum", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-ai", "Quantum-software" ], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.4893335, "longitude": -0.1440551, "founded": "2022", "website": "https://mothquantum.com", "shortSummary": "London creative quantum company behind Quantum Backrooms, a free browser game whose mazes are generated on live IBM and IQM quantum hardware.", "description": "Moth builds software that turns quantum computer output into games, music and graphics, aiming to give people something to play rather than read about. Its free browser game Quantum Backrooms, launched in May 2026, generates each maze from live runs on IBM and IQM processors, with qubits mapped to sections of the game world; an earlier multiplayer Roblox game, Space Moths, was shown at Gamescom 2025. Co-founded by Harry Kumar and Ilyas Khan, now its non-executive chairman, the company has a street-level space on D'Arblay Street in Soho, where it ran the Moth Hack drop-in sessions and hackathon in September 2026.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/moth-quantum/" }, { "slug": "nanoco-technologies", "name": "Nanoco Technologies", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-photonics", "Quantum-components" ], "city": "Runcorn", "region": "North West", "latitude": 53.3421509, "longitude": -2.7334941, "founded": "2001", "website": "https://www.nanocotechnologies.com", "shortSummary": "Runcorn maker of cadmium-free and near-infrared quantum dots for displays and image sensors, spun out of the University of Manchester.", "description": "Nanoco Technologies makes quantum dots, semiconductor nanocrystals whose colour depends on their size: cadmium-free CFQD dots for displays and HEATWAVE dots that absorb near-infrared light for cameras and image sensors. Spun out of the University of Manchester's School of Chemistry around 2001 and based in Runcorn, it now earns mostly from licensing and development agreements with Asian chemical companies, reporting £11.3m unaudited revenue for the year to July 2026. A proposal to leave the London Stock Exchange, made in May 2026 to save about £0.7m a year, was adjourned in June pending shareholder consultation.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/nanoco-technologies/" }, { "slug": "ncsc-uk", "name": "National Cyber Security Centre", "shortName": null, "entityType": "government", "categories": [ "Post-quantum-cryptography", "quantum-policy", "Quantum-standards", "Quantum-security" ], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5074, "longitude": -0.1278, "founded": "2016", "website": "https://www.ncsc.gov.uk", "shortSummary": "The UK's cyber security authority: sets the 2028, 2031 and 2035 post-quantum migration milestones and assures PQC consultancies.", "description": "For UK organisations preparing for quantum computers that can break today's public-key encryption, the National Cyber Security Centre, part of GCHQ, sets the deadlines. Its migration timeline of March 2025 asks them to finish discovering vulnerable cryptography and draft a plan by 2028, deal with their highest-priority systems by 2031, then move everything to post-quantum cryptography by 2035. To supply the skills, it runs a pilot within its Assured Cyber Security Consultancy scheme that certifies PQC consultancies until March 2027. Its quantum networking white paper states it will not support quantum key distribution for government or military applications, preferring post-quantum algorithms.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 2, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/ncsc-uk/" }, { "slug": "nihr", "name": "National Institute for Health and Care Research", "shortName": null, "entityType": "funder", "categories": [], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5155, "longitude": -0.1425, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.nihr.ac.uk", "shortSummary": "Health research funder backing Q-BIOMED, the UK quantum biomedical sensing hub, and photonic diagnostics for children's eye care.", "description": "NIHR, the government's health and care research funder, supports quantum work mainly through Q-BIOMED, the UCL-led hub for quantum biomedical sensing. Its contribution, with BBSRC and MRC, formed part of the £106m public investment in five quantum research hubs announced in July 2024. In September 2026 NIHR funding backed a project at UCL's Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health to adapt Siloton's photonic-chip eye scanner so children with sight-threatening conditions can be monitored at home or in the community.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 1, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/nihr/" }, { "slug": "national-quantum-commercialisation-skills-centre", "name": "National Quantum Commercialisation Skills Centre", "shortName": null, "entityType": "research", "categories": [ "Quantum-research", "Quantum-education" ], "city": null, "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5074, "longitude": -0.1278, "founded": "2026", "website": "https://www.ukri.org", "shortSummary": "Planned EPSRC-funded national centre, worth up to £11.3m over four years, to build commercialisation skills in UK quantum research from December 2026.", "description": "EPSRC is funding a single national centre to teach quantum researchers at every career stage how to protect intellectual property, form spin-outs and work with industry and investors. The call offered up to £11.3m over four years for a lead university or consortium, with training, placements and an early-stage research accelerator in scope; UKRI's March 2026 quantum package put the figure at £12m. Applications closed in July 2026, interviews are due in October 2026 and the award must start on 1 December 2026, so no host has yet been named.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/national-quantum-commercialisation-skills-centre/" }, { "slug": "national-security-strategic-investment-fund", "name": "National Security Strategic Investment Fund", "shortName": null, "entityType": "investor", "categories": [ "Quantum-investment", "Quantum-hardware", "Quantum-computing", "Quantum-communications", "Quantum-sensing" ], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5074, "longitude": -0.1278, "founded": "2018", "website": "https://www.nssif.gov.uk", "shortSummary": "UK government venture fund for national security and defence, holding 17 direct and indirect quantum positions including Nu Quantum, ORCA and Riverlane.", "description": "Seventeen direct and indirect quantum positions, spanning sensing, computing, networking, photonics and semiconductors, sat in NSSIF's book by March 2026, when the government's deep tech venture fund for national security said it had supplied about 4% of UK quantum investment in 2024. Run jointly with the British Business Bank, the fund backs dual-use startups directly and through venture funds, and places companies on work programmes with government users. Quantum holdings include Nu Quantum and ORCA Computing, and it was a returning investor in Riverlane's £15m Series B in April 2023.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/national-security-strategic-investment-fund/" }, { "slug": "ncc-group", "name": "NCC Group", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [], "city": "Manchester", "region": "North West", "latitude": 53.4808, "longitude": -2.2426, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.nccgroup.com", "shortSummary": "Manchester cyber security firm whose cryptographers co-wrote the FALCON post-quantum signature and which joined ORCA's Quantum Data Centre consortium.", "description": "Quantum computing matters to NCC Group mainly as a threat to encryption. Its Cryptography Services team helped propose FALCON, the lattice-based signature scheme co-written by Thomas Pornin that NIST named a round 3 finalist in July 2020, and the Manchester firm's research report of February 2026 describes applied post-quantum work and help for clients preparing to migrate. On the hardware side, NCC Group Security Services joined ORCA Computing's Quantum Data Centre of the Future consortium (March 2022 to March 2025) with a £49,300 grant offer, alongside BT, KETS, PQShield and Riverlane.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/ncc-group/" }, { "slug": "neuranics", "name": "Neuranics", "shortName": null, "entityType": "startup", "categories": [ "Quantum-sensing", "Magnetometers", "Semiconductor", "Quantum-components" ], "city": "Glasgow", "region": "Scotland", "latitude": 55.8642, "longitude": -4.2518, "founded": "2021", "website": "https://neuranics.com", "shortSummary": "Glasgow spin-out making tunnelling magnetoresistance sensors that read picotesla magnetic fields, aimed at wearable heart monitoring and industry.", "description": "Neuranics makes magnetic field sensors based on tunnelling magnetoresistance, a quantum effect in which electrons tunnelling through a magnetic junction change its electrical resistance in step with the surrounding field, and pairs them with its own amplifier chips and AI software. The Glasgow company was spun out of the universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh in 2021 and raised £1.9 million in pre-seed funding led by Par Equity. Early products targeted heart monitoring through clothing, and in June 2026 it launched a development kit that detects and logs picotesla-level fields over USB or Bluetooth for industrial, wearable and health uses.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/neuranics/" }, { "slug": "newcastle-university", "name": "Newcastle University", "shortName": null, "entityType": "university", "categories": [], "city": "Newcastle upon Tyne", "region": "North East", "latitude": 54.979, "longitude": -1.6142, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.ncl.ac.uk", "shortSummary": "Newcastle's School of Computing quantum group turns quantum foundations into sensing and imaging protocols; home of an EPSRC quantum fellowship.", "description": "Newcastle's quantum technology research is concentrated in the School of Computing, where Jonte Hance heads a quantum group that mines the foundations of quantum mechanics, such as contextuality and the way measurement disturbs a system, for new protocols in imaging, sensing and computing. Hance holds one of 11 EPSRC Quantum Technology Career Acceleration Fellowships. Quantum mathematics also reaches beyond physics at the university: in May 2026 a team in the School of Psychology won £1.2 million from UKRI for Quantum Emotions, which uses quantum formalism to model emotional memory in situations where the order of events matters.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 2, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/newcastle-university/" }, { "slug": "niqs-tech", "name": "NIQS Tech", "shortName": null, "entityType": "startup", "categories": [ "Quantum-sensing", "Quantum-photonics", "Quantum-applications" ], "city": "Leeds", "region": "Yorkshire and the Humber", "latitude": 53.8008, "longitude": -1.5491, "founded": "2022", "website": "https://niqstech.com", "shortSummary": "Leeds start-up developing a needle-free, photonic-chip glucose monitor, now a partner in the Q-BIOMED quantum healthcare hub.", "description": "NIQS Tech is building a needle-free glucose monitor that uses a patented photonic chip and an optical measurement technique designed to reduce the effect of skin tone and thickness on readings. The Leeds company's founders trained at the University of Leeds, and Innovate UK has funded its sensor development, including in-vivo studies from April 2024. Early human testing on 12 people, reported in July 2025, gave 97.5% of readings in the most accurate zone of the DTS error grid. NIQS became a partner in the Q-BIOMED quantum biomedical sensing hub in November 2025.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/niqs-tech/" }, { "slug": "nodeq", "name": "nodeQ", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-networking", "Quantum-software", "Quantum-communications", "Post-quantum-cryptography" ], "city": "York", "region": "Yorkshire and the Humber", "latitude": 53.959, "longitude": -1.0815, "founded": "2021", "website": "https://www.nodeq.io", "shortSummary": "York-founded maker of the telaQ quantum network digital twin and PQtunnel post-quantum tool; partner in the IQN hub and BT's QAssure project.", "description": "nodeQ writes software for planning quantum and quantum-safe networks. Its telaQ digital twin lets operators model QKD and post-quantum links before they build them, or design networks that join up quantum processors, and its PQtunnel application carries traffic through post-quantum encrypted TLS or SSH tunnels. Founded in 2021 by University of York professor Stefano Pirandola, it is an industrial partner in the Integrated Quantum Networks hub and was one of ten partners in BT's QAssure project on QKD assurance. In January 2026 it joined Numana's Kirq testbed in Canada to run telaQ on a live experimental network.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 2, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/nodeq/" }, { "slug": "novacene-photonics", "name": "Novacene Photonics", "shortName": null, "entityType": "startup", "categories": [ "Quantum-photonics", "Quantum-components", "Quantum-sensing", "Quantum-hardware" ], "city": "Glasgow", "region": "Scotland", "latitude": 55.9023, "longitude": -4.312, "founded": "2025", "website": "https://www.novacene-photonics.com", "shortSummary": "Glasgow laser company that bought M Squared Lasers' assets in 2025 and continues its SolsTiS lasers for quantum research.", "description": "Novacene Photonics took over the laser business of M Squared Lasers, the Glasgow photonics and quantum firm that entered administration in August 2025. Set up by M Squared's former senior leadership, it bought the company's intellectual property and other assets from administrators Interpath in November 2025. Its product range carries on M Squared's lines, including the SolsTiS continuous-wave titanium-sapphire laser used in quantum research, plus the Firefly infrared range, Sprite XT ultrafast laser and Equinox frequency comb.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/novacene-photonics/" }, { "slug": "npl", "name": "NPL", "shortName": null, "entityType": "research", "categories": [ "Quantum-research", "Quantum-sensing", "Quantum-communications" ], "city": "Teddington", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.4214, "longitude": -0.3418, "founded": "1900", "website": "https://www.npl.co.uk", "shortSummary": "NPL in Teddington tests quantum clocks, sensors and computers for UK industry and helped found NMI-Q, the G7 metrology group for quantum standards.", "description": "Britain's national measurement institute, based in Teddington, tests and validates quantum technologies through its Quantum Metrology Institute, whose facilities include an Advanced Quantum Metrology Lab for evaluating clocks. NPL led the £36m National Timing Centre programme from 2019 to 2025, building a network of atomic clocks so the UK relies less on satellite timing, and it is a partner in the IQN, QuSIT and QEPNT research hubs. In November 2025 it hosted the launch of NMI-Q, a group of eight national metrology institutes from the G7 and Australia working towards shared quantum measurement standards.", "projectsLed": 2, "projectsPartner": 19, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/npl/" }, { "slug": "nqcc", "name": "NQCC", "shortName": null, "entityType": "research", "categories": [ "Quantum-research" ], "city": "Harwell", "region": "South East", "latitude": 51.5661, "longitude": -1.3099, "founded": "2020", "website": "https://nqcc.ac.uk", "shortSummary": "The UK's national quantum computing lab at Harwell: seven hardware testbeds, the SparQ user programme and the UK's first 100-qubit machine.", "description": "The National Quantum Computing Centre is the UK's national lab for testing and using quantum computers, in a 4,000 square metre building on the Harwell Campus that officially opened in October 2024. A £30m testbed programme with Innovate UK put seven prototype machines on site, covering photonic (Aegiq, ORCA), neutral-atom (Infleqtion, QuEra), trapped-ion (Oxford Ionics), silicon spin (Quantum Motion) and superconducting (Rigetti) hardware. Through SparQ it funds companies to trial real problems, such as OQC and Citi's work on pricing derivatives. In May 2026 Infleqtion delivered the UK's first 100-qubit system there.", "projectsLed": 3, "projectsPartner": 19, "projectsFunded": 18, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/nqcc/" }, { "slug": "nu-quantum", "name": "Nu Quantum", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-networking", "Quantum-communications", "Quantum-photonics", "Quantum-hardware" ], "city": "Cambridge", "region": "East of England", "latitude": 52.2053, "longitude": 0.1218, "founded": "2018", "website": "https://nu-quantum.com", "shortSummary": "Cambridge spin-out building photonic networking hardware, including a rack-mounted Quantum Networking Unit, to link trapped-ion quantum processors.", "description": "Linking separate quantum processors with photons, so that several small machines can work as one, is the focus of Nu Quantum, a 2018 spin-out from Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory. Its rack-mounted Quantum Networking Unit, launched in June 2025, is designed to entangle four trapped-ion processors at up to 99.7% fidelity. After a $60m Series A in December 2025, the company opened a trapped-ion networking lab in Cambridge in February 2026, with the NQCC and the University of Sussex among its collaborators. It also leads HyperIon, a Quantum Missions pilot project with Cisco and Sussex on its qubit-photon interface.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 4, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/nu-quantum/" }, { "slug": "optalysys", "name": "Optalysys", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Classical-computing", "Post-quantum-cryptography", "Quantum-security" ], "city": "Leeds", "region": "Yorkshire and the Humber", "latitude": 53.8008, "longitude": -1.5491, "founded": "2013", "website": "https://optalysys.com", "shortSummary": "Leeds photonic computing firm whose silicon photonic chips compute in the data path for encryption and AI workloads; classical optics, not qubits.", "description": "Optalysys works on classical photonic computing rather than quantum hardware: its silicon photonic chips perform calculations inside the optical data path, which it calls Compute-in-Transit, aimed at fully homomorphic encryption and AI data movement. The quantum link is cryptographic, and a 2026 preprint describes porting ML-KEM, the NIST post-quantum key exchange standard, onto its photonic prototype. Founded in Leeds in 2013, it raised £23m in January 2026 in a round led by Northern Gritstone, with the National Security Strategic Investment Fund taking part, and in June 2026 named former Intel executive Chris Walker as chief executive.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/optalysys/" }, { "slug": "orca-computing", "name": "ORCA Computing", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-photonics", "Cryogenics", "Quantum-hardware", "Quantum-cloud", "Quantum-education", "Quantum-software", "Quantum-optimization", "Quantum-processors" ], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.4893335, "longitude": -0.1440551, "founded": "2019", "website": "https://orcacomputing.com", "shortSummary": "London maker of room-temperature photonic quantum computers, with a testbed at the NQCC and a 2026 enterprise deployment in Japan with Toyota Tsusho.", "description": "ORCA Computing builds photonic quantum computers that carry information in the timing of single photons in optical fibre, so its rack-mounted PT Series machines run at room temperature. The London company, incorporated in 2019 around a quantum memory invented at the University of Oxford, supplied a photonic testbed to the National Quantum Computing Centre under the 2024 testbed programme and led the Innovate UK-funded Quantum Data Centre of the Future project with BT. In May 2026 its systems went on show at Digital Realty's new London innovation lab, and in June 2026 it delivered a PT Series system to an industrial customer in Japan with Toyota Tsusho.", "projectsLed": 2, "projectsPartner": 7, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-10", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/orca-computing/" }, { "slug": "oxford-instruments", "name": "Oxford Instruments", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-infrastructure", "Cryogenics", "Quantum-hardware" ], "city": "High Wycombe", "region": "South East", "latitude": 51.63174, "longitude": -0.75596, "founded": "1959", "website": "https://oxinst.com", "shortSummary": "High Wycombe instruments group whose PlasmaPro etch and deposition tools help fabricate superconducting qubits; it sold its cryogenics arm in 2026.", "description": "Since the sale of its NanoScience cryogenics division to Quantum Design completed in January 2026, Oxford Instruments' quantum business has centred on plasma processing: atomic layer etch and deposition tools for making superconducting qubits. In May 2026 it agreed to supply a PlasmaPro 100 Cobra etch system to Rigetti's Fab-1 foundry in California. At home, its Plasma Technology unit is a partner in the Glasgow-led QEPNT navigation hub, and the group supplied the Proteox dilution refrigerator for the 2020 Rigetti consortium that installed a commercial quantum computer in Abingdon.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 7, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/oxford-instruments/" }, { "slug": "oxford-ionics", "name": "Oxford Ionics", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [], "city": "Oxford", "region": "South East", "latitude": 51.752, "longitude": -1.2577, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.oxionics.com", "shortSummary": "Oxford trapped-ion quantum computer maker, owned by IonQ since September 2025, whose QUARTET system runs at the National Quantum Computing Centre.", "description": "Oxford Ionics builds trapped-ion quantum computers in which the ions are controlled by electronics on a chip made in standard semiconductor fabs, an approach it calls Electronic Qubit Control. Chris Ballance and Tom Harty founded it in Oxford. In August 2025 it installed QUARTET, a full-stack trapped-ion machine, at the National Quantum Computing Centre under the NQCC testbed programme. IonQ completed its purchase of the company in September 2025 and uses it as a UK base for work with universities and public-sector partners.", "projectsLed": 1, "projectsPartner": 7, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/oxford-ionics/" }, { "slug": "oxford-quantum-circuits", "name": "Oxford Quantum Circuits", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Superconducting-qubits", "Quantum-hardware", "Quantum-cloud" ], "city": "Reading", "region": "South East", "latitude": 51.4564242, "longitude": -0.9700664, "founded": "2017", "website": "https://oqc.tech/", "shortSummary": "Reading-based maker of superconducting quantum computers (Toshiko, GENESIS), backed by a £260m Series C in June 2026.", "description": "OQC makes superconducting quantum computers at Thames Valley Science Park in Reading, using its Coaxmon chip architecture and, in its newest GENESIS system, dual-rail Dimon qubits that flag their own errors. Its 32-qubit Toshiko machines sit in colocation data centres in the UK, Spain and Japan and are offered through OQC Cloud. In June 2026 it closed a £260m Series C led by Bullhound Capital, anchored by a £100m commitment from the British Business Bank. At home it is a partner in the Oxford-led QCi3 research hub, and a SparQ project with Citi and the NQCC tested quantum-compressed neural networks for pricing derivatives.", "projectsLed": 1, "projectsPartner": 5, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-10", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/oxford-quantum-circuits/" }, { "slug": "pa-consulting-quantum-technology", "name": "PA Consulting Quantum Technology", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-consulting" ], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5074, "longitude": -0.1278, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.paconsulting.com", "shortSummary": "PA Consulting's quantum team builds defence prototypes for Dstl, from a Rydberg-atom radio receiver to quantum planning tools.", "description": "PA Consulting's quantum specialists build working designs and prototypes, much of it for the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory. With Durham University academics they produced a blueprint for a Rydberg-atom radio receiver about 1cm long, tunable over several tens of gigahertz, and later a hybrid classical-quantum planning tool, funded through the Defence and Security Accelerator, that ran communications-placement and resource problems on Amazon Braket. PA also supplies technical expertise to MoniRail's quantum train navigation consortium, which ran a mainline trial in March 2026. That same month the London consultancy became wholly owned by US engineering group Jacobs, in a deal worth about £1.2bn.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/pa-consulting-quantum-technology/" }, { "slug": "parkwalk-advisors", "name": "Parkwalk Advisors", "shortName": null, "entityType": "investor", "categories": [ "Quantum-investment", "Quantum-hardware", "Quantum-computing" ], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5074, "longitude": -0.1278, "founded": "2009", "website": "https://parkwalk.vc/", "shortSummary": "IP Group's EIS fund manager for university spin-outs, an early investor in Quantum Motion and Phasecraft; launched a new Oxford fund in 2026.", "description": "Parkwalk Advisors runs Enterprise Investment Scheme funds that back UK university spin-outs, and it got into several British quantum companies early. Its Opportunities fund backed Quantum Motion in 2017 and joined the silicon qubit developer's £8 million round in 2020; in 2019 it co-led a £750,000 pre-seed round for Phasecraft, the UCL and Bristol algorithms company, and it took part again in Phasecraft's $34 million Series B in September 2025. The London firm, the fund management arm of IP Group, launched its seventh Oxford-focused EIS fund in September 2026, naming quantum computing among its target sectors.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/parkwalk-advisors/" }, { "slug": "phasecraft", "name": "Phasecraft", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-software", "Quantum-materials" ], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.4893335, "longitude": -0.1440551, "founded": "2018", "website": "https://phasecraft.io", "shortSummary": "Bristol and London quantum algorithms company working on materials simulation and grid optimisation, including Mondrian with the UK's NESO.", "description": "Phasecraft writes algorithms that cut the circuit size needed to run materials simulation and optimisation on today's noisy quantum computers. Founded by Ashley Montanaro, Toby Cubitt and John Morton, with offices in Bristol and London, it raised a $34m Series B in September 2025 co-led by Plural, Playground Global and Novo Holdings. Its Mondrian optimisation platform, launched in October 2025, was adapted for the National Energy System Operator's grid problems with a £1.2m Quantum Catalyst Fund award. A US headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, was announced in September 2026.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 2, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/phasecraft/" }, { "slug": "phlux-technology", "name": "Phlux Technology", "shortName": null, "entityType": "startup", "categories": [], "city": "Sheffield", "region": "Yorkshire and the Humber", "latitude": 53.3836, "longitude": -1.4726, "founded": null, "website": "https://phluxtechnology.com", "shortSummary": "Sheffield maker of low-noise 1550 nm avalanche photodiodes and partner in the MARCONI project on UK-built quantum key distribution receivers.", "description": "Built on antimonide semiconductor research at the University of Sheffield, Phlux makes Aura infrared avalanche photodiodes for 1550 nm light that it says are up to 12 times more sensitive than comparable APDs. Most of its market is lidar, range finding and fibre sensing, but it brought its detectors to MARCONI, a £1.49m Innovate UK project led by RedWave Labs from June 2024 to March 2026 to build two UK-made receivers for quantum key distribution. Phlux's share of that grant was about £227,000. In April 2025 it raised a £9m Series A led by BGF.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/phlux-technology/" }, { "slug": "photarix", "name": "Photarix", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-security", "Quantum-photonics", "Qkd", "Quantum-cryptography" ], "city": "Lancaster", "region": "North West", "latitude": 54.0466, "longitude": -2.8007, "founded": "2025", "website": "https://www.photarix.com", "shortSummary": "Lancaster spin-out making room-temperature, telecom-wavelength single-photon LEDs to bring quantum key distribution into ordinary fibre networks.", "description": "Photarix is developing quantum-ring single-photon LEDs, chip-scale emitters meant to supply single photons for quantum key distribution at telecom wavelengths and at or near room temperature, avoiding the cryogenic cooling many single-photon sources need. A Lancaster University spin-out built on chief executive Gizem Acar Tekin's PhD research, with Lancaster professor Manus Hayne as chief scientific officer, it has been supported by ICURe, CyberASAP and North West CyberCom. The company exhibited at November 2025's National Quantum Technologies Showcase in London.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/photarix/" }, { "slug": "photon-force", "name": "Photon Force", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-sensing", "Quantum-photonics", "Quantum-components", "Single-photon-detectors" ], "city": "Edinburgh", "region": "Scotland", "latitude": 55.9227, "longitude": -3.1727, "founded": "2015", "website": "https://www.photon-force.com", "shortSummary": "Edinburgh maker of single-photon SPAD cameras and sensors for quantum optics and lifetime imaging, spun out of the University of Edinburgh in 2015.", "description": "Photon Force, based in Edinburgh, makes SPAD (single-photon avalanche diode) sensors and cameras, such as the PF32 range and the PF1D-1024 linear array, used in quantum optics, fluorescence lifetime imaging and imaging through scattering media. Chief executive Richard Walker co-founded it in 2015, having spent seven years as a researcher in the University of Edinburgh group run by Robert Henderson. In the £2.7m Innovate UK USPIS project led by Sonardyne, it is building a 1D SPAD array with on-board FPGA processing for underwater imaging. A cheaper 32x32 camera, the PF32-Lite, launched in April 2026.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/photon-force/" }, { "slug": "planet-first-partners", "name": "Planet First Partners", "shortName": null, "entityType": "investor", "categories": [ "Quantum-investment", "Quantum-computing" ], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5074, "longitude": -0.1278, "founded": "2020", "website": "https://www.planetfirst.partners", "shortSummary": "London growth investor with a quantum computing theme; led Riverlane's $75m Series C and backs the Quantonation quantum venture funds.", "description": "Quantum computing is one of four investment themes at this London growth equity firm, alongside energy, consumer platforms and health tech. In August 2024 it led the $75m Series C of Riverlane, the Cambridge quantum error correction company. It also backs the quantum venture funds Quantonation I and II, committing to the second in June 2025, and led a 2026 round for Canada's Photonic Inc. In November 2025 it hosted its first quantum computing event, with the founders of ORCA Computing and Riverlane as speakers.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/planet-first-partners/" }, { "slug": "plural", "name": "Plural", "shortName": null, "entityType": "investor", "categories": [ "Quantum-investment", "Quantum-software", "Quantum-research" ], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5074, "longitude": -0.1278, "founded": "2022", "website": "https://www.pluralplatform.com", "shortSummary": "European VC firm co-founded by Ian Hogarth that co-led the $34m Series B of UK quantum algorithms company Phasecraft in September 2025.", "description": "Plural is a European venture firm co-founded by tech founders including Ian Hogarth, who chaired the UK government's AI Foundation Model Taskforce. Its quantum position is Phasecraft, the UK quantum algorithms company: Plural was one of three co-leads when Phasecraft raised a $34 million Series B in September 2025, with Playground Global and Novo Holdings' new Quantum Fund, money earmarked for Phasecraft's hardware-agnostic algorithm work, US growth and partnerships with Johnson Matthey, Oxford PV, the National Energy System Operator and BT.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/plural/" }, { "slug": "post-quantum", "name": "Post-Quantum", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-security", "Post-quantum-cryptography" ], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.4893335, "longitude": -0.1440551, "founded": "2009", "website": "https://post-quantum.com", "shortSummary": "London post-quantum cryptography firm behind NTS-KEM, now part of Classic McEliece, selling quantum-safe VPN, messaging and identity tools.", "description": "Post-Quantum, the trading name of London's PQ Solutions, sells security software designed to withstand quantum attack, including identity protection, a hybrid post-quantum VPN and quantum-safe messaging, plus help with migrating systems. Two of its cryptographers, Cen Jung Tjhai and Martin Tomlinson, co-authored NTS-KEM, a code-based algorithm submitted to NIST's post-quantum competition that merged with Classic McEliece in March 2020; Classic McEliece reached NIST's fourth round and is being drafted as an ISO standard. The company also cites its authorship of RFC 9370, the IETF standard for multiple key exchanges in IKEv2.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/post-quantum/" }, { "slug": "powerphotonic", "name": "PowerPhotonic", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [], "city": "Dalgety Bay", "region": "Scotland", "latitude": 56.042, "longitude": -3.351, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.powerphotonic.com", "shortSummary": "Fife maker of freeform micro-optics for lasers, and a partner in the Fraunhofer CAP-led QT Assemble quantum component consortium.", "description": "PowerPhotonic makes freeform micro-optics: beam shapers, microlens arrays and beam combiners machined directly into fused silica, sold mainly for industrial, defence and medical lasers. The company is based in Dalgety Bay, Fife, and its quantum work came through QT Assemble, a Quantum Technologies Challenge consortium led by Fraunhofer CAP in Glasgow that set out to shrink lasers, photon sources, detectors and cold-atom sources into robust integrated devices. Its own site does not currently present quantum as a market.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/powerphotonic/" }, { "slug": "pqshield", "name": "PQShield", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Post-quantum-cryptography", "Quantum-security" ], "city": "Oxford", "region": "South East", "latitude": 51.752, "longitude": -1.2577, "founded": "2018", "website": "https://pqshield.com", "shortSummary": "Oxford spin-out supplying post-quantum cryptography as chip IP and software libraries; an NCSC-assured PQC migration consultancy since 2025.", "description": "PQShield sells post-quantum cryptography in forms that chip designers and software teams can drop straight in: hardware IP cores for the ML-KEM and ML-DSA standards, a root-of-trust subsystem, and libraries for embedded devices and servers. The Oxford University spin-out, incorporated in 2018, was a partner in ORCA Computing's Quantum Data Centre of the Future consortium. In September 2025 the National Cyber Security Centre picked it for both categories of its pilot assured consultancy scheme for PQC migration, which runs to March 2027, and in April 2026 it completed an evaluation of ML-KEM for CRYPTREC, Japan's cryptography standards body.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/pqshield/" }, { "slug": "pwc", "name": "PwC", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-consulting", "Quantum-strategy" ], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5074, "longitude": -0.1278, "founded": "1849", "website": "https://www.pwc.com", "shortSummary": "Company in London, founded 1849.", "description": null, "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/pwc/" }, { "slug": "q-biomed", "name": "Q-BIOMED", "shortName": null, "entityType": "research", "categories": [ "Quantum-research", "Quantum-sensing", "Quantum-imaging" ], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5074, "longitude": -0.1278, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.qbiomed.org/", "shortSummary": "UK national research hub developing quantum sensors for earlier disease diagnosis, run across six universities including UCL, Cambridge and Oxford.", "description": "Q-BIOMED, the UK Quantum Biomedical Sensing Research Hub, develops quantum sensors aimed at earlier diagnosis of cancer, Alzheimer's, cardiovascular and infectious disease through ultra-sensitive blood tests, faster MRI and portable instruments. One of five hubs in the £160m national network, it draws on UCL, Cambridge, Oxford, Warwick, Cardiff and Heriot-Watt, with John Morton, Mete Atatüre and Molly Stevens as co-directors. EPSRC's Accelerating Capability Fund added £902,000 in May 2026, and in July 2026 hub-affiliated teams won nine of the 17 NIHR i4i FAST quantum awards.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/q-biomed/" }, { "slug": "q-ctrl-uk", "name": "Q-CTRL UK", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5255, "longitude": -0.0776, "founded": null, "website": "https://q-ctrl.com", "shortSummary": "London arm of quantum control firm Q-CTRL, using Fire Opal software on UK projects in rail scheduling and fuel cell catalysts, and partner in TreQ's testbed.", "description": "Q-CTRL UK is the London subsidiary of the Australian quantum control company Q-CTRL, opened in May 2023 for research and product development, including software-defined quantum sensors for navigation without GPS. Most of its UK projects run on Fire Opal, Q-CTRL's error-suppression software: it won a Quantum Catalyst Fund contract to optimise train timetables, and with Johnson Matthey and the NQCC it used Fire Opal on IBM hardware to search for nitrogen-doped graphene catalysts that could replace platinum in hydrogen fuel cells. It was also a partner in TreQ's multi-vendor Open Architecture Quantum testbed (March 2025 to March 2026).", "projectsLed": 1, "projectsPartner": 2, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/q-ctrl-uk/" }, { "slug": "qinara", "name": "Qinara", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-software", "Quantum-ai", "Quantum-optimization" ], "city": "Edinburgh", "region": "Scotland", "latitude": 55.9445, "longitude": -3.1866, "founded": "2025", "website": "https://www.qinara.co.uk", "shortSummary": "Edinburgh start-up behind Qronos, a reinforcement-learning quantum circuit optimiser it says cuts gate counts by 73 to 89%.", "description": "Qinara is an Edinburgh start-up writing a software layer to run optimisation, cybersecurity and biomedical workloads across hybrid quantum and classical hardware. Its most concrete output so far is Qronos, a quantum circuit optimiser trained by deep reinforcement learning: in November 2025 the company reported gate-count reductions of 73 to 89% on the circuits it tested, with results 42 to 71% smaller than those from Qiskit, TKET, Quartz and Quarl, and released the before-and-after circuit files. These are the company's own figures and have not been independently checked. Qinara Ltd was incorporated in Scotland in November 2024.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/qinara/" }, { "slug": "qinetiq-quantum-technologies", "name": "QinetiQ", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-sensing", "Quantum-defense" ], "city": "Farnborough", "region": "South East", "latitude": 51.2757, "longitude": -0.7634, "founded": "2001", "website": "https://qinetiq.com", "shortSummary": "Defence research firm that flew quantum navigation payloads on its RJ100 test aircraft and ran its QinetiQAOA algorithm on OQC hardware in 2026.", "description": "QinetiQ, the Farnborough defence research company, tests and integrates quantum sensing, timing, navigation and computing for military customers rather than building quantum hardware itself, with a focus on navigation that still works when GPS is jammed. In May 2024 its RJ100 airborne demonstrator flew Infleqtion's Tiqker optical atomic clock and a cold-atom system in trials at MoD Boscombe Down. In February 2026 it ran QinetiQAOA, its own optimisation algorithm, on OQC's Toshiko quantum computer to find the nodes whose loss would most disrupt military ad hoc radio networks, and in June 2026 it joined DSIT's Quantum Growth Alliance.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 4, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/qinetiq-quantum-technologies/" }, { "slug": "qlm-technology", "name": "QLM Technology", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-sensing", "Quantum-photonics" ], "city": "Bristol", "region": "South West", "latitude": 51.4545, "longitude": -2.5879, "founded": "2017", "website": "https://qlmtec.com", "shortSummary": "Bristol spin-out QLM makes a quantum lidar methane camera that finds and sizes gas leaks using single-photon detection, backed by SLB.", "description": "QLM Technology sells a methane camera built on quantum lidar: a low-power diode laser paired with single-photon avalanche detectors scans a whole oil, gas or water site, then locates each leak and sizes it in real units. The company spun out of the University of Bristol in 2017, founded by Xiao Ai, and now works from Bristol, Cardiff and Paignton. A £12m Series A in 2022, led by SLB, made the oilfield services group its largest shareholder and exclusive upstream and midstream sales channel. UK customers include Severn Trent, and Paul Hughes is chief executive.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 2, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/qlm-technology/" }, { "slug": "qmatter", "name": "Qmatter", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-software", "Quantum-algorithms", "Quantum-chemistry" ], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5074, "longitude": -0.1278, "founded": "2026", "website": "https://qmatter.xyz/", "shortSummary": "Start-up from UCL quantum chemistry research compressing hard simulation problems to run on current quantum and classical hardware.", "description": "QMatter writes software that compresses large simulation problems into smaller ones that keep the structure needed for an accurate answer, so they can run on a laptop, a supercomputer or today's quantum processors. Chief executive Alexis Ralli and chief technology officer Tim Weaving did their research at UCL on the contextual subspace variational quantum eigensolver, a method that shrinks chemistry problems by splitting a Hamiltonian into contextual and noncontextual parts. Co-authors of that work, Peter Love, Peter Coveney and William Kirby, are among its scientific advisers.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/qmatter/" }, { "slug": "qruise", "name": "Qruise", "shortName": null, "entityType": "startup", "categories": [], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5107, "longitude": -0.1214, "founded": null, "website": "https://qruise.com", "shortSummary": "Quantum calibration software firm using digital twins and machine learning; partner in TreQ's multi-vendor Open Architecture Quantum testbed.", "description": "Qruise writes machine-learning software that builds physics-based digital twins of quantum devices and uses them to automate calibration and pulse design, shortening the time it takes to bring up a new processor. Its UK company, Qruise Limited, was registered in London in July 2023. In TreQ's Innovate UK-funded Open Architecture Quantum testbed in Oxfordshire (March 2025 to March 2026) it worked on an open interface specification so its AI calibration can run on hardware from different suppliers, alongside Q-CTRL, Oxford Ionics and Rigetti. In April 2026 it demonstrated automated bring-up on Quantum Machines' OPX1000 controllers, and in September 2026 relaunched its QruiseML modelling tool.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/qruise/" }, { "slug": "qtec", "name": "QTEC", "shortName": null, "entityType": "ecosystem", "categories": [ "Quantum-accelerator", "Quantum-research", "Quantum-computing", "Quantum-sensing" ], "city": "Bristol", "region": "South West", "latitude": 51.4545, "longitude": -2.5879, "founded": "2016", "website": "https://www.bristol.ac.uk/qtec/", "shortSummary": "Former University of Bristol quantum enterprise centre (2016 to 2022) credited with 28 start-ups that raised over £57m; also ran the QUEST pre-incubator.", "description": "Set up at the University of Bristol in 2016 with EPSRC money, the Quantum Technology Enterprise Centre gave quantum researchers a route from the lab into start-ups. By October 2021 Bristol credited it with 28 active companies that had raised over £57m and created more than 175 UK jobs, and it had launched QUEST, a six-month pre-incubator for university researchers. The university now describes QTEC in the past tense, noting that the National Quantum Technologies Programme phase it belonged to closed in July 2022.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/qtec/" }, { "slug": "quantcore", "name": "Quantcore", "shortName": null, "entityType": "startup", "categories": [ "Quantum-hardware", "Superconducting-qubits", "Quantum-processors" ], "city": "Glasgow", "region": "Scotland", "latitude": 55.8721, "longitude": -4.2889, "founded": "2025", "website": "https://quantcore.co.uk", "shortSummary": "Glasgow spin-out making niobium superconducting quantum processors, resonators and sensors; £2.5m seed in February 2026 and IoP qBIG Prize winner.", "description": "Niobium, rather than the aluminium many rivals use, is the material behind Quantcore's superconducting processors, resonators and sensors, which it designs, fabricates and tests in Glasgow. The University of Glasgow spin-out was founded in August 2025 by Jack Brennan, Valentino Seferai, Wridhdhisom Karar and Martin Weides, and works from the university's James Watt Nanofabrication Centre and Mazumdar-Shaw Advanced Research Centre. PXN Ventures, Blackfinch Ventures and Scottish Enterprise co-led its £2.5m seed round in February 2026, and in June 2026 it won the Institute of Physics qBIG Prize.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/quantcore/" }, { "slug": "quantgates", "name": "QuantGates", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-software", "Quantum-education" ], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.4893335, "longitude": -0.1440551, "founded": "2019", "website": "https://quantgates.com/", "shortSummary": "London maker of Spinorio, a calibration-aware AI quantum compiler and experiment tracker, and of the QuantumClass training platform.", "description": "QuantGates makes Spinorio, software for quantum research teams in two parts. The Spinorio Compiler uses learned policies plus the latest calibration data from the target processor, currently IBM Quantum machines, to decide how to synthesise, map, route and optimise each circuit; Spinorio Workflow records every circuit version, compilation step, job and result from a notebook so experiments can be traced and repeated. The London company, incorporated in September 2019, also runs QuantumClass, a quantum programming course platform that lists learners from Barclays, Accenture, Yale and UC Berkeley.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/quantgates/" }, { "slug": "quantinuum", "name": "Quantinuum", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [], "city": "Cambridge", "region": "East of England", "latitude": 52.2005, "longitude": 0.129, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.quantinuum.com", "shortSummary": "Trapped-ion quantum computer maker with roots in Cambridge Quantum and UK offices in Cambridge, London and Oxford; partner of the Hartree Centre.", "description": "Quantinuum makes trapped-ion quantum computers, from the H1 and H2 systems to Helios, along with software such as InQuanto for computational chemistry. One of its two predecessors was Cambridge Quantum, and it keeps UK offices in Cambridge, London and Oxford. A July 2024 agreement gave the STFC Hartree Centre cloud and on-site access to H-Series machines, and in February 2024 Quantinuum was named lead of an actinide chemistry project under the Quantum Catalyst Fund. In September 2026 it ran its first InQuanto Summer School, for 30 researchers at Newnham College, Cambridge, with NQCC support.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 4, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/quantinuum/" }, { "slug": "quantonova", "name": "Quantonova", "shortName": null, "entityType": "startup", "categories": [ "Quantum-error-correction", "Quantum-software", "Quantum-sensing" ], "city": "Haverhill", "region": "East of England", "latitude": 52.08327, "longitude": 0.43539, "founded": "2023", "website": "https://quantonova.com", "shortSummary": "Cambridge start-up developing error correction as a service for quantum computers and quantum LiDAR for inspecting transport infrastructure.", "description": "Quantonova, a Cambridge company incorporated in March 2023, works on two quantum products backed by small Innovate UK feasibility grants. QuantoTrace, funded with £50,000 in 2023, is a cloud error-correction-as-a-service platform that uses machine learning to choose and tune codes such as surface, toric and quantum LDPC codes across different hardware. QuantoLiSense, a £40,000 study from January to March 2026, explored quantum-enhanced LiDAR for spotting cracks, corrosion and delamination in bridges, tunnels and railways.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/quantonova/" }, { "slug": "quantopticon", "name": "Quantopticon", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-software", "Quantum-simulation" ], "city": "Guildford", "region": "South East", "latitude": 51.2362, "longitude": -0.5704, "founded": "2017", "website": "https://quantopticon.co.uk", "shortSummary": "Guildford software firm whose Quantillion simulator models quantum dot photon sources and spin-photon interfaces before they are fabricated.", "description": "Designing a quantum dot single-photon source or spin-photon interface usually means months of fabricate-and-test cycles; Quantopticon sells Quantillion, simulation software that models the cavity quantum electrodynamics of such devices instead. The company claims it can cut an optimisation cycle from 26 weeks to two and costs by up to 90%, and pitches it to academics, quantum start-ups, foundries and electromagnetic-solver vendors as a plug-in. Registered in Guildford since 2017, it counts CEO Mirella Koleva's Innovate UK Women in Innovation Award for 2025/26 among recent support, and has been rated 'Awardable' on DARPA's ERIS marketplace.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/quantopticon/" }, { "slug": "quantrologee", "name": "Quantrologee", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-sensing" ], "city": "Glasgow", "region": "Scotland", "latitude": 55.8642, "longitude": -4.2518, "founded": "2025", "website": "https://quantrologee.com", "shortSummary": "Glasgow-registered quantum sensing start-up designing the Wee-g gravimeter, a magnetometer, MOT gratings and vapour cells.", "description": "Quantrologee designs quantum sensing hardware: a gravimeter it calls Wee-g, a quantum magnetometer, and components such as magneto-optical trap gratings and vapour cells. The company was incorporated in Scotland on 31 October 2025 with its registered office at the University of Glasgow. Its directors include Douglas Paul, principal investigator of the QEPNT quantum navigation hub, and Erling Riis, both appointed in February 2026.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/quantrologee/" }, { "slug": "quantrolox", "name": "QuantrolOx", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-software", "Quantum-control" ], "city": "Oxford", "region": "South East", "latitude": 51.752, "longitude": -1.2577, "founded": "2021", "website": "https://quantrolox.com", "shortSummary": "Oxford spin-out whose Quantum EDGE software automates calibration and tuning of superconducting qubits; a partner in the QCi3 hub.", "description": "QuantrolOx sells Quantum EDGE, software that uses machine learning to automate bringing up, characterising and tuning superconducting qubits, a job it says otherwise takes one to two days per qubit. The University of Oxford spin-out, led by co-founder Vishal Chatrath, keeps an Oxford office and is a partner in the QCi3 national quantum computing hub. In August 2026 it launched Quantum EDGE Academy with QURECA, a simulated lab for training engineers, and in September 2026 it opened a Berkeley office after signing a five-year agreement with UC Berkeley's Roger Herst Quantum Nexus.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/quantrolox/" }, { "slug": "quantum-base", "name": "Quantum Base", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-security", "Quantum-materials", "Quantum-applications" ], "city": "Lancaster", "region": "North West", "latitude": 54.0466, "longitude": -2.8007, "founded": "2013", "website": "https://quantumbase.com", "shortSummary": "Lancaster spin-out listed on AIM whose Q-ID atomic-scale tags authenticate tax stamps and artworks with a smartphone scan.", "description": "Quantum Base makes Q-ID, an anti-counterfeiting tag that anyone can check with a smartphone: the phone's flash excites atoms on the tag, which emit light in a pattern fixed by their exact arrangement, and the camera checks it against the tag's registered record within three seconds. The Lancaster University spin-out, built on Robert Young's research, joined London's AIM market as QUBE in April 2025, and its largest customer is an international security printer using Q-IDs on government tax stamps. In November 2025 it signed a 15-year, £9.4 million deal to tag artworks in a global art registry, the first use of its Q-RAND random number generator.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/quantum-base/" }, { "slug": "quantum-business-incubation-centre", "name": "Quantum Business Incubation Centre", "shortName": null, "entityType": "ecosystem", "categories": [ "Quantum-accelerator", "Quantum-computing", "Quantum-sensing", "Quantum-communications" ], "city": "Harwell", "region": "South East", "latitude": 51.5956, "longitude": -1.3123, "founded": "2023", "website": "https://iuk-business-connect.org.uk/opportunities/quantum-business-incubation-centre/", "shortSummary": "STFC's Harwell incubator for quantum start-ups: up to £50k of R&D funding, £10k in vouchers and business coaching, run with the NQCC.", "description": "Run by STFC at Harwell Campus, with support from the National Quantum Computing Centre, QuBIC incubates young UK companies whose products rely on quantum computing, sensing or communications. A selected start-up can receive up to £50,000 towards a minimum viable product, £10,000 of R&D vouchers to spend with public sector partners, and up to 50 hours of coaching on investment readiness, market validation and intellectual property. Its first cohort, named in April 2024, was Applied Quantum Computing (hospital theatre scheduling), Finchetto (optical network switches) and OpenQuantum (an open-source quantum computing platform). A further application round ran from June to July 2025.", "projectsLed": 1, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/quantum-business-incubation-centre/" }, { "slug": "university-of-york-quantum-hub", "name": "Quantum Communications Hub", "shortName": null, "entityType": "research", "categories": [ "Quantum-research", "Quantum-communications" ], "city": "York", "region": "Yorkshire and the Humber", "latitude": 53.945, "longitude": -1.0523, "founded": "2014", "website": "https://www.quantumcommshub.net", "shortSummary": "York-led national quantum communications hub (2014 to 2024) that built the UK Quantum Network and began the SPOQC satellite mission.", "description": "The Quantum Communications Hub was the University of York-led national research hub for quantum-secure communications, running from 2014 to 2024 under director Tim Spiller with ten universities and partners including BT, ID Quantique and NPL. It received £24m for its first phase plus £2m to extend the UK Quantum Network, then £23.5m for 2019 to 2024. That network carried a 410km demonstration between Bristol and Cambridge, reported in April 2025, combining two kinds of quantum key distribution. The hub also began the SPOQC CubeSat mission; its work continues in the Heriot-Watt-led Integrated Quantum Networks Hub.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/university-of-york-quantum-hub/" }, { "slug": "quantum-dice", "name": "Quantum Dice", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-hardware" ], "city": "Oxford", "region": "South East", "latitude": 51.752, "longitude": -1.2577, "founded": "2020", "website": "https://quantum-dice.com", "shortSummary": "Oxford spin-out making DISC quantum random number generators and ORBIT, a photonic probabilistic processor, now trialled with NATS and North Wales Police.", "description": "Founded in April 2020 out of Oxford's physics department, Quantum Dice started with quantum random number generators built on DISC, a protocol that checks the security of its output continuously as it runs. Its focus has since widened to probabilistic computing: ORBIT, a photonic p-bit processor for optimisation problems, was the target of a €2m EIC Accelerator grant in December 2025. In the UK it is a partner in the Integrated Quantum Networks hub, began working with NATS on air traffic management in March 2026, and in September 2026 reported modelled results from Project PROTECT, an emergency-vehicle deployment study with North Wales Police.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-10", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/quantum-dice/" }, { "slug": "quantum-exponential", "name": "Quantum Exponential", "shortName": null, "entityType": "investor", "categories": [ "Quantum-investment", "Quantum-commercialization" ], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5074, "longitude": -0.1278, "founded": "2021", "website": "https://www.quantumexp.co.uk/", "shortSummary": "London quantum investor holding stakes in Aegiq, Delta g, OQC, QLM, Siloton and Universal Quantum; delisted from AQSE in October 2024.", "description": "Quantum Exponential Group invests small sums in UK quantum start-ups. Its 2023 interim results listed seven holdings: Arqit, Oxford Quantum Circuits, Universal Quantum, Aegiq, QLM Technology, Siloton and Delta g, with stakes such as about 7.8% of Birmingham gravity-sensing spin-out Delta g. The London plc left the AQSE Growth Market, where it traded as QBIT, after shareholders approved the move in October 2024, the board having argued that prospective investors preferred unlisted structures. It remains active, and in September 2026 hosted a discussion at the London Stock Exchange on commercialising quantum computing.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-10", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/quantum-exponential/" }, { "slug": "quantum-fabrix", "name": "Quantum Fabrix", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-components", "Quantum-hardware", "Trapped-ion" ], "city": "Kidlington", "region": "South East", "latitude": 51.82346, "longitude": -1.28853, "founded": "2024", "website": "https://www.qfx.io", "shortSummary": "Oxford spin-out QFX makes miniature atom sources for loading ion traps; raised £2m seed funding in 2025 and won £700k for its SrROCK project.", "description": "Quantum Fabrix, trading as QFX, makes components for trapped-ion and neutral-atom machines. Its first product, the Miniaturised Atom Source, is a low-power, optically heated source that sends a tight beam of atoms into an ion trap and works from room temperature down to 4 kelvin. Spun out of Joe Goodwin's networked ion-trap group at Oxford in 2024, it closed a £2 million seed round led by Paul Graham in October 2025 and won £700,000 of Phase 1 government funding for its SrROCK timing and sensing project the following month. Oxford ion-trap researchers then showed, in January 2026, that a QFX prototype could load ions in under a millisecond.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/quantum-fabrix/" }, { "slug": "quantum-motion", "name": "Quantum Motion", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-processors" ], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5528, "longitude": -0.1188, "founded": "2017", "website": "https://quantummotion.tech", "shortSummary": "London silicon quantum computing company that put a CMOS-built spin-qubit system into the NQCC and raised a $160m Series C in May 2026.", "description": "Silicon spin qubits made with the 300mm CMOS processes of ordinary chipmaking are Quantum Motion's route to a quantum computer. Co-founded by John Morton and Simon Benjamin out of UCL and Oxford, the London company installed a full-stack system at the National Quantum Computing Centre in September 2025; it fits in three 19-inch racks and takes programs written in Qiskit or Cirq. A $160m Series C followed in May 2026, with DCVC and Kembara as joint leads and the British Business Bank among the new backers, and the company is in Stage B of DARPA's Quantum Benchmarking Initiative.", "projectsLed": 1, "projectsPartner": 3, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/quantum-motion/" }, { "slug": "quantum-security-defence", "name": "Quantum Security Defence", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-consulting", "Quantum-education", "Quantum-cryptography" ], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5074, "longitude": -0.1278, "founded": "2019", "website": "https://www.quantumsecuritydefence.com", "shortSummary": "Membership community offering quantum cybersecurity and post-quantum cryptography courses, briefings and peer reviews; UK company registered in Ipswich.", "description": "Quantum Security Defence (QSECDEF) runs a membership community and training programme on quantum-era cybersecurity, with courses such as Introduction to Quantum Cyber Security and a Certified Post Quantum Cryptography Programme Manager course, plus weekly peer reviews, closed briefings and a planned 2027 world symposium. Its membership, by its own count, exceeds 1,200 people in more than 40 countries. The UK company was incorporated in June 2024 with its registered office in Ipswich, and Anna Beata Kalisz Hedegaard is chief executive.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-10", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/quantum-security-defence/" }, { "slug": "quantum-software-lab-edinburgh", "name": "Quantum Software Lab", "shortName": null, "entityType": "research", "categories": [ "Quantum-research", "Quantum-computing", "Quantum-software" ], "city": "Edinburgh", "region": "Scotland", "latitude": 55.9445, "longitude": -3.1892, "founded": "2023", "website": "https://www.quantumsoftwarelab.com", "shortSummary": "Edinburgh research group on quantum algorithms, verification and security, running the £20m QATCH programme with the NQCC.", "description": "More than 50 researchers at the University of Edinburgh's Informatics Forum make up the Quantum Software Lab, which works on quantum algorithms, verification and quantum cyber security. In March 2026 the UK Government gave it £20 million for QATCH, a four-year programme run with the National Quantum Computing Centre to build the software and verification tools that make quantum computers useful and trustworthy. Energy is a second strand: in July 2026 a £6.2 million Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund project with NESO, National Gas, SP Energy Networks and Cambridge Consultants began building an open-source Quantum Threat Tracker for energy networks.", "projectsLed": 1, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/quantum-software-lab-edinburgh/" }, { "slug": "qubitra", "name": "Qubitra", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-software", "Quantum-finance", "Quantum-machine-learning", "Quantum-optimization" ], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5074, "longitude": -0.1278, "founded": "2025", "website": "https://www.qubitra.io/", "shortSummary": "Standard Chartered and Fujitsu joint venture in London building quantum and quantum-inspired software for fraud detection and financial risk.", "description": "Owned jointly by Standard Chartered and Fujitsu, Qubitra applies quantum, quantum-inspired and machine learning algorithms to finance. Standard Chartered brings banking knowledge and Fujitsu the quantum and machine learning capability, and the company says it is working with hedge funds, family offices and financial institutions on trading signals, fraud detection and risk modelling such as pricing derivatives, running scenarios and stress tests. Registered at Companies House in June 2025, the London company is preparing a marketplace of ready-to-run, domain-specific applications.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/qubitra/" }, { "slug": "queens-university-belfast", "name": "Queen's University Belfast", "shortName": null, "entityType": "university", "categories": [], "city": "Belfast", "region": "Northern Ireland", "latitude": 54.5844, "longitude": -5.9342, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.qub.ac.uk", "shortSummary": "Belfast university combining quantum information theory with post-quantum cryptography research at CSIT; partner in the IQN and QEPNT hubs.", "description": "Quantum research at Queen's splits between theory and security. Mauro Paternostro's Quantum Technology group (QTeQ) in the School of Mathematics and Physics works on quantum information processing and the thermodynamics of quantum systems, while Máire O'Neill's Secure Connected Devices programme at the Centre for Secure Information Technologies designs post-quantum cryptographic hardware and studies weaknesses in QKD systems. The university is a partner in the Integrated Quantum Networks and QEPNT hubs, and QTeQ co-leads CoQREATE, a €3 million US-Ireland quantum internet partnership launched in July 2022.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 4, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/queens-university-belfast/" }, { "slug": "queensgate-nanopositioning", "name": "Queensgate Nanopositioning", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-components", "Precision-motion" ], "city": "Torquay", "region": "South West", "latitude": 50.4619, "longitude": -3.5253, "founded": "1979", "website": "https://nanopositioning.com", "shortSummary": "Company in Torquay working on quantum components and precision motion, founded 1979.", "description": null, "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/queensgate-nanopositioning/" }, { "slug": "quera-computing-uk", "name": "QuEra Computing (UK)", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [], "city": "Harwell", "region": "South East", "latitude": 51.575, "longitude": -1.311, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.quera.com", "shortSummary": "UK arm of neutral-atom computer maker QuEra, building an NQCC testbed for atom shuttling and error correction from a Harwell base.", "description": "QuEra Computing UK is the British subsidiary of the Boston neutral-atom computer maker, and its main UK job is a testbed for the National Quantum Computing Centre. Won in the NQCC's £30m testbed competition and announced in February 2024, the machine holds neutral atoms in movable optical tweezers and is designed to shuttle groups of atoms between zones, for experiments on error-corrected logical qubits. In June 2025 the company took more than 3,500 sq ft in the Tech Foundry building at Harwell Campus, a space big enough to house a working quantum computer, as its base for UK and European growth.", "projectsLed": 1, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/quera-computing-uk/" }, { "slug": "quinas-technology", "name": "Quinas Technology", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-materials", "Quantum-components" ], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5074, "longitude": -0.1278, "founded": "2023", "website": "https://quinas.tech", "shortSummary": "Lancaster spin-out commercialising ULTRARAM, memory that stores data by quantum resonant tunnelling; scaled up with IQE in Cardiff.", "description": "ULTRARAM, the memory Quinas Technology is commercialising, is classical rather than a qubit store: it uses quantum resonant tunnelling in III-V semiconductors to hold data with flash-like persistence while switching at DRAM-class speed. Professor Manus Hayne invented it at Lancaster University, where the company keeps its R&D labs; its headquarters are in London. A £1.1m Innovate UK project, coordinated by Quinas, moved growth of the antimonide layers from 3-inch wafers at Lancaster to 6-inch production at IQE in Cardiff, and has since been completed. Quinas also won a 2025 WIPO Global Award.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/quinas-technology/" }, { "slug": "qujit", "name": "QuJiT", "shortName": null, "entityType": "startup", "categories": [ "Quantum-control", "Quantum-hardware", "Quantum-education" ], "city": "Southampton", "region": "South East", "latitude": 50.9097, "longitude": -1.4044, "founded": "2017", "website": "https://www.qujit.com", "shortSummary": "Southampton start-up developing energy-aware control software for quantum processors; also resells SpinQ desktop NMR and superconducting quantum computers.", "description": "Southampton Science Park is home to QuJiT (Quantum Just-in-Time), whose research effort is an energy-aware control layer that sits between quantum hardware and the algorithms run on it, meant to keep processors stable as they scale. Alongside that, it resells SpinQ machines, from two-qubit desktop NMR quantum computers for teaching to a superconducting system of 20 to more than 100 qubits. Founded by Susan Forrester (CEO) and Michael Forrester (CTO), the company took SETsquared's Transforming Tomorrow award for deep tech in November 2024, three months after joining the Science Park's Catalyst Programme.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/qujit/" }, { "slug": "qureca", "name": "Qureca", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-education" ], "city": "Glasgow", "region": "Scotland", "latitude": 55.8622, "longitude": -4.2545, "founded": "2019", "website": "https://qureca.com", "shortSummary": "Quantum training and recruitment company running CPD courses, the SPRINT jobs platform and the Quantum EDGE Academy with QuantrolOx.", "description": "Skills are QURECA's business: it runs CPD-certified online courses such as Quantum for Everyone, tailored training for company teams, market research and the SPRINT platform for quantum recruitment. Founded by Araceli Venegas-Gomez and registered in Scotland, it coordinates the EU's QTIndu project on quantum education for industry and was a partner in Universal Quantum's 2022 to 2025 consortium building an error-corrected trapped-ion processor. In August 2026 it launched Quantum EDGE Academy with QuantrolOx, a simulator-based course in operating superconducting qubits sold to universities per seat or by subscription.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/qureca/" }, { "slug": "qusit", "name": "QuSIT", "shortName": null, "entityType": "research", "categories": [ "Quantum-research", "Quantum-sensing", "Quantum-imaging", "Quantum-navigation" ], "city": "Birmingham", "region": "West Midlands", "latitude": 52.4538, "longitude": -1.9329, "founded": "2024", "website": "https://qusit.org/", "shortSummary": "Birmingham-led national hub for quantum sensing, imaging and timing (2024 to 2029), successor to the Sensors and Timing and QuantIC hubs.", "description": "Funded by a £22 million EPSRC grant running from December 2024 to November 2029, QuSIT is the national research hub for quantum sensors, cameras and clocks, led by Michael Holynski at the University of Birmingham with Glasgow's Miles Padgett as a science co-director. It brings together two earlier hubs, Sensors and Timing and the QuantIC imaging hub, and counts about 250 researchers working on uses from brain imaging to mapping buried infrastructure. In September 2026 it shared £774,000 from its Accelerating Capability Fund among applied projects, including a UCL-led study adapting OPM-MEG brain scanning for autistic children with epilepsy.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/qusit/" }, { "slug": "rahko", "name": "Rahko", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-software" ], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.4893335, "longitude": -0.1440551, "founded": "2018", "website": "https://rahko.ai", "shortSummary": "Former London quantum machine learning start-up for drug discovery, majority-acquired by Odyssey Therapeutics in December 2021.", "description": "Rahko was a London quantum machine learning start-up founded in 2018 by UCL computer science graduates. Its Hyrax drug discovery service paired machine learning and quantum algorithms with computational chemistry, and it worked with AWS, IBM, Nvidia and Microsoft. In December 2021 Odyssey Therapeutics, a Boston biotech that had just raised $218m, took a majority stake in the company, which then had about a dozen staff.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/rahko/" }, { "slug": "redwave-labs", "name": "RedWave Labs", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-components", "Qkd", "single-photon-detection", "Quantum-control" ], "city": "Didcot", "region": "South East", "latitude": 51.5661, "longitude": -1.3099, "founded": "2004", "website": "https://www.redwavelabs.com", "shortSummary": "Didcot electronics designer building single-photon detectors and UK-made QKD receivers, lead of the MARCONI and SEQOND projects.", "description": "RedWave Labs designs custom photonics electronics in Didcot, Oxfordshire, and its quantum line runs from single-photon detectors and QKD receivers to coil drivers and rubidium heaters. It led MARCONI, a £1.5m Innovate UK project (June 2024 to March 2026) that built two UK-made QKD receivers, one with avalanche photodiodes for short links and a 64-channel superconducting nanowire version for long-haul fibre, with Phlux, Chase Research Cryogenics, Bay Photonics, Fraunhofer UK and the universities of Glasgow and Cambridge. Since March 2025 it has also led SEQOND, a Quantum Missions pilot project with Covesion and Fraunhofer UK that upconverts telecom photons so silicon detectors can count them.", "projectsLed": 1, "projectsPartner": 3, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/redwave-labs/" }, { "slug": "rigetti-uk", "name": "Rigetti UK", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5074, "longitude": -0.1278, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.rigetti.com", "shortSummary": "UK subsidiary of Rigetti Computing running a 24-qubit superconducting testbed at the NQCC and a £3.5m error-correction project with Riverlane.", "description": "Rigetti UK is the London-registered arm of Rigetti Computing, and it runs the US firm's superconducting quantum computing work in Britain. It led the £10m consortium, announced in 2020 with Oxford Instruments, Phasecraft, the University of Edinburgh and Standard Chartered, that put a cloud-accessible machine in Abingdon. Through the NQCC testbed programme it now operates a 24-qubit Ankaa-class system at Harwell, and in April 2025 it won a £3.5m Quantum Missions pilot with Riverlane and the NQCC to test error correction and upgrade that machine to 36 qubits.", "projectsLed": 2, "projectsPartner": 5, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/rigetti-uk/" }, { "slug": "riverlane", "name": "Riverlane", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-error-correction", "Quantum-software", "Quantum-control" ], "city": "Cambridge", "region": "East of England", "latitude": 52.2053, "longitude": 0.1218, "founded": "2016", "website": "https://riverlane.com", "shortSummary": "Cambridge quantum error correction company behind the Deltaflow real-time decoder and the open-source Deltakit toolkit; partner in the QCi3 hub.", "description": "Riverlane works on one problem: correcting qubit errors quickly enough for a quantum computer to be useful. From Cambridge it sells Deltaflow, an FPGA-based decoding system designed to sit beneath any type of qubit, and gives away Deltakit, an open-source Python toolkit for designing and simulating error-correction experiments. In the UK it led the Innovate UK-funded AutoQT consortium on automated qubit tuning and is a partner in the QCi3 computing hub. In September 2026 it agreed with Infleqtion to test its stack on Infleqtion's neutral-atom system at the National Quantum Computing Centre, the same month it opened a US headquarters in Maryland.", "projectsLed": 2, "projectsPartner": 5, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-10", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/riverlane/" }, { "slug": "robquant", "name": "RobQuant", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-sensing", "Quantum-components", "Quantum-healthcare" ], "city": "Sheffield", "region": "Yorkshire and the Humber", "latitude": 53.3811, "longitude": -1.4701, "founded": "2023", "website": "https://robquant.com", "shortSummary": "Sheffield start-up building room-temperature diamond NV magnetometers on silicon photonics for brain-signal sensing without cryogenics.", "description": "RobQuant is developing chip-scale magnetometers that pair nitrogen-vacancy centres in diamond with silicon photonics, designed to work at room temperature without cryogenics or a shielded room. Brain-signal measurement in the style of magnetoencephalography is the main target, and the company plans to reach clinics through medical device partners rather than build systems itself. Based in Sheffield and founded in 2023, it became a partner in an EPSRC quantum sensing project in April 2025 and won Innovate UK support for a quantum sensor lab demonstrator in November 2025.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/robquant/" }, { "slug": "rolls-royce", "name": "Rolls-Royce", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-applications" ], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.4893335, "longitude": -0.1440551, "founded": "1906", "website": "https://rolls-royce.com", "shortSummary": "Rolls-Royce tests quantum algorithms for gas turbine fluid dynamics, with 2026 work alongside Classiq and with Quantinuum, Riverlane and EPCC.", "description": "Rolls-Royce comes to quantum as a user, asking whether future machines can speed up the fluid dynamics simulations behind gas turbine design. In June 2026 it and Classiq slotted a quantum linear solver into a classical CFD code for flow through a nozzle, cutting quantum resource needs more than tenfold against an earlier method. In July 2026 it began a multi-year project with Quantinuum, Riverlane and EPCC in Edinburgh to test hybrid quantum and supercomputer workflows on Quantinuum's Helios. It was also end user in Universal Quantum's Innovate UK-funded error-corrected processor consortium.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 3, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/rolls-royce/" }, { "slug": "royal-holloway-university-of-london", "name": "Royal Holloway, University of London", "shortName": null, "entityType": "university", "categories": [], "city": "Egham", "region": "South East", "latitude": 51.4256, "longitude": -0.5631, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk", "shortSummary": "Egham university studying superconducting qubit materials at ultra-low temperatures, a partner of Fermilab's SQMS centre and the QCi3 hub.", "description": "Royal Holloway's quantum strength is ultra-low-temperature physics, run from the London Low Temperature Laboratory in Egham, where its Centre for Advanced Quantum Science and Technology studies materials that limit the coherence of superconducting qubits and builds quantum sensors for dark matter searches. The group is an international partner of SQMS, the Fermilab-hosted US centre whose $125m five-year renewal was announced in November 2025, and works with NPL. Royal Holloway is also a partner in QCi3, the Oxford-led national quantum computing hub.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 3, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/royal-holloway-university-of-london/" }, { "slug": "rsk-group", "name": "RSK", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [], "city": "Helsby", "region": "North West", "latitude": 53.275, "longitude": -2.771, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.rsk.co.uk", "shortSummary": "Engineering consultancy that led Gravity Pioneer, the project that took Birmingham's quantum gravity gradiometer into the field to find buried structures.", "description": "An environmental and engineering consultancy might seem an odd name in quantum, but RSK wanted a better way to find mineshafts, sinkholes and buried pipes without digging. Its geosciences team led Gravity Pioneer, a £6m Quantum Technologies Pioneer Fund project announced in November 2018 that ran to December 2021, with the University of Birmingham as academic lead and Teledyne e2v, Fraunhofer UK and Magnetic Shields among the partners. The cold-atom gravity gradiometer that came out of the work detected a utility tunnel under a road on Birmingham's campus, reported in Nature in 2022 as the first such find outside a laboratory.", "projectsLed": 1, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/rsk-group/" }, { "slug": "stfc", "name": "Science and Technology Facilities Council", "shortName": null, "entityType": "national-lab", "categories": [], "city": "Swindon", "region": "South West", "latitude": 51.5679, "longitude": -1.7853, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.ukri.org/councils/stfc/", "shortSummary": "The UKRI council that delivers the NQCC at Harwell, funds quantum sensing for fundamental physics and runs the QuBIC start-up incubator.", "description": "STFC delivers the National Quantum Computing Centre, which sits at its Rutherford Appleton Laboratory on the Harwell Campus and was set up with an initial £93m from UKRI through STFC and EPSRC. Its own Quantum Technologies for Fundamental Physics programme points quantum sensors at questions such as dark matter and gravity, while RAL Space builds space-ready quantum subsystems, including for the SPEQTRE quantum communication experiment. Start-ups are the third strand: since April 2024 STFC has run the Quantum Business Incubation Centre at Harwell, offering up to £50,000 in R&D funding plus £10,000 in vouchers per company.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 7, "projectsFunded": 3, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/stfc/" }, { "slug": "secqai", "name": "SECQAI", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-ai", "Quantum-software" ], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5074, "longitude": -0.1278, "founded": "2021", "website": "https://www.secqai.com", "shortSummary": "London chip designer behind the SE01 Q-Locked TPM: CHERI memory safety, post-quantum cryptography and optional quantum randomness, taped out with TSMC.", "description": "London-based SECQAI designs secure hardware centred on a Trusted Platform Module with post-quantum cryptography accelerators, device attestation and an optional quantum random number generator. In November 2025 it taped out the SE01 'Q-Locked' TPM on TSMC's 22nm process, built on the CHERI v9 memory-safe architecture developed at the University of Cambridge and supporting the NIST FIPS 203, 204 and 205 algorithms. The firm also announced a hybrid quantum large language model in February 2025 and was one of ten innovators selected by NATO's DIANA.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/secqai/" }, { "slug": "seeqc-uk", "name": "SEEQC UK", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5072, "longitude": -0.1276, "founded": null, "website": "https://seeqc.com", "shortSummary": "UK arm of SEEQC, maker of superconducting digital control chips for qubits, which led the QuPharma drug-discovery quantum computing project.", "description": "SEEQC's chips put the classical control and readout logic of a quantum computer on superconducting circuits that sit at the same cryogenic temperature as the qubits. Its UK subsidiary led QuPharma, a £5.07m Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund project from March 2022 to March 2025 that coupled a full-stack quantum computer with an STFC supercomputer for drug-discovery problems, working with Merck, Riverlane, Oxford Instruments, the University of Oxford and Medicines Discovery Catapult. SEEQC UK also took part in Riverlane's NISQ.OS and AutoQT consortia.", "projectsLed": 1, "projectsPartner": 3, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/seeqc-uk/" }, { "slug": "semiwise", "name": "SemiWise", "shortName": null, "entityType": "startup", "categories": [], "city": "Glasgow", "region": "Scotland", "latitude": 55.8642, "longitude": -4.2518, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.semiwise.com", "shortSummary": "Glasgow firm making cryogenic transistor models and design kits so standard foundries can build control chips for quantum computers.", "description": "Classical chips stop behaving as designed when cooled towards the temperatures qubits need, and SemiWise builds the transistor models that let designers plan for that. The Glasgow firm, run by Professor Asen Asenov, released cryogenic SPICE models for GlobalFoundries' 22FDX process in November 2022. It was a partner in the sureCore-led cryo-CMOS consortium funded by the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund from November 2021 to March 2025, receiving a £551,587 grant offer alongside SEEQC, Universal Quantum and the University of Glasgow.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/semiwise/" }, { "slug": "sia-partners", "name": "Sia Partners UK", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5072, "longitude": -0.1276, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.sia-partners.com", "shortSummary": "Consultancy with a London Quantum Lab since 2021; led commercialisation work in Universal Quantum's error-corrected quantum computer consortium.", "description": "Sia Partners, the management consultancy, advises clients on where quantum computing could fit into their business. In March 2021 it opened a London-based Quantum Lab to pool that expertise and gather smaller technology partners for clients in banking, energy, healthcare, transport and other sectors. Its main UK project role was commercialisation and dissemination in Universal Quantum's £7.5 million Innovate UK consortium (2022 to 2025), which set out to build an error-correcting trapped-ion quantum computer with Rolls-Royce as end user.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/sia-partners/" }, { "slug": "silicon-microgravity", "name": "Silicon Microgravity", "shortName": null, "entityType": "startup", "categories": [], "city": "Cambridge", "region": "East of England", "latitude": 52.2723, "longitude": 0.1821, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.siliconmicrogravity.com", "shortSummary": "Cambridge developer of MEMS gravity sensors that was a partner in the Gravity Pioneer consortium.", "description": null, "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/silicon-microgravity/" }, { "slug": "singular-photonics", "name": "Singular Photonics", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-photonics", "Quantum-hardware" ], "city": "Edinburgh", "region": "Scotland", "latitude": 55.9445, "longitude": -3.1866, "founded": "2023", "website": "https://singularphotonics.com", "shortSummary": "Edinburgh spin-out making SPAD image sensors with in-pixel photon processing; raised $2.15m in 2026 and launched the Litavis sensor.", "description": "Singular Photonics designs single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) image sensors that do their processing on the chip, counting and time-stamping individual photons inside each pixel so that far less raw data has to leave the sensor. The fabless Edinburgh company grew out of Robert Henderson's CMOS Sensors and Systems group at the University of Edinburgh. In August 2026 it raised $2.15 million led by ACF Investors, with Scottish Enterprise and Quantum Exponential among the backers, after doubling its 2025 sales; in September it launched Litavis, a 3D-stacked 256 by 256 pixel sensor that captures intensity, picosecond timing and photon statistics at once.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/singular-photonics/" }, { "slug": "skylark-lasers", "name": "Skylark Lasers", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-components", "Quantum-photonics", "Quantum-sensing" ], "city": "Edinburgh", "region": "Scotland", "latitude": 55.9445, "longitude": -3.1866, "founded": "2013", "website": "https://skylarklasers.com", "shortSummary": "Edinburgh maker of single-frequency DPSS lasers, including 780 nm rubidium sources, which led the £2.3m NX Micro laser project for quantum gravity sensors.", "description": "Skylark Lasers, based in Edinburgh, builds single-frequency diode-pumped solid-state lasers, and for quantum users its main product is a 780 nm laser tuned to rubidium, the atom used in many interferometers and quantum memories. Its largest quantum project was NX Micro (August 2023 to February 2025), a £2.3 million Innovate UK programme with Heriot-Watt and Glasgow universities to bring a solid-state laser for quantum gravity sensors close to the price of cheaper diode lasers, validated with Birmingham spin-out Delta g. The company raised $5 million in October 2023 to push laser miniaturisation further.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 2, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/skylark-lasers/" }, { "slug": "spectomiq", "name": "Spectomiq", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-sensing" ], "city": "Brighton", "region": "South East", "latitude": 50.8225, "longitude": -0.1372, "founded": "2026", "website": "https://spectomiq.com", "shortSummary": "Company in Brighton working on quantum sensing, founded 2026.", "description": null, "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/spectomiq/" }, { "slug": "spinor", "name": "SpinOr", "shortName": null, "entityType": "startup", "categories": [ "Quantum-hardware", "Superconducting-qubits", "Quantum-computing" ], "city": "Manchester", "region": "North West", "latitude": 53.44246, "longitude": -2.23245, "founded": "2025", "website": "https://spinor.co.uk", "shortSummary": "Manchester start-up designing rack-sized superconducting quantum computers for on-site use; backed by an Innovate UK project in 2025-26.", "description": "SpinOr aims to shrink superconducting quantum computers to a single rack so that research sites can run them in-house instead of renting time over the cloud. The company was incorporated in August 2025 with its registered office at the University of Manchester Innovation Factory. Its first public funding was a £47,505 Innovate UK project, Compact Superconducting Quantum Computer, which ran from November 2025 to April 2026 to fabricate pilot qubit wafers, publish specifications for linking the system to HPC clusters and recruit beta users.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/spinor/" }, { "slug": "spooqy", "name": "Spooqy", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-cryptography", "Quantum-software", "Quantum-communications", "Quantum-security" ], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5145, "longitude": -0.1252, "founded": "2026", "website": "https://spooqy.ai", "shortSummary": "London start-up building a compiler and AI design tools for quantum cryptography protocols beyond QKD, including certified randomness and quantum money.", "description": "Spooqy works on quantum cryptography beyond key distribution, planning a compiler that turns a protocol specification into a hardware blueprint and a device-independent security certificate, alongside an AI layer that explores designs using that compiler. It names two markets: certified randomness for defence key generation, and uncopyable quantum money for finance. Stefano Gogioso leads the company, which Hashberg set up in London in March 2026; it has put two open-source Python libraries, Tyche for quantum information and Eris for contextuality, first on its roadmap, ahead of a Spooqy Cloud platform.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/spooqy/" }, { "slug": "standard-chartered", "name": "Standard Chartered", "shortName": null, "entityType": "enterprise-adopter", "categories": [ "Quantum-finance" ], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5074, "longitude": -0.1278, "founded": "1969", "website": "https://www.sc.com", "shortSummary": "Standard Chartered supplies finance data to UK quantum machine learning projects with Rigetti and Imperial, and co-owns quantum venture Qubitra with Fujitsu.", "description": "London-headquartered Standard Chartered works on quantum computing as a data partner in UK consortia and through a venture of its own. It belonged to the Rigetti UK-led consortium that set up one of the country's first quantum computers in Abingdon from 2020, working with the University of Edinburgh on quantum machine learning for finance. From January 2024 it gave datasets and classical benchmarks to an 18-month Innovate UK feasibility study with Rigetti, AWS and Imperial College London, with price-prediction results reported in November 2025. In January 2026 its SC Ventures arm and Fujitsu set out plans for Qubitra Technologies, a London joint venture for quantum fraud detection and trading apps.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/standard-chartered/" }, { "slug": "surecore", "name": "sureCore", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [], "city": "Sheffield", "region": "Yorkshire and the Humber", "latitude": 53.3776, "longitude": -1.4679, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.sure-core.com", "shortSummary": "Sheffield chip IP designer whose CryoMem memory works at cryogenic temperatures for control electronics inside quantum computers.", "description": "Quantum computers need control chips that can sit inside the cryostat next to the qubits, and Sheffield memory IP designer sureCore has been adapting standard silicon to do that. It led a £4.8m Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund consortium from November 2021 to March 2025 with SEEQC, Universal Quantum, Synopsys, Semiwise, Oxford NanoScience and the University of Glasgow, building cryogenic design kits and circuit IP. The result, its CryoMem SRAM, register file and ROM IP on 180nm and 22FDX processes, went up for licence in November 2024, with 180nm test chips already proven at 77K.", "projectsLed": 1, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/surecore/" }, { "slug": "synopsys-uk", "name": "Synopsys UK", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [], "city": "Reading", "region": "South East", "latitude": 51.4258, "longitude": -0.985, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.synopsys.com", "shortSummary": "The chip design software group's UK quantum link: cryogenic transistor modelling for qubit control chips in the sureCore-led cryo-CMOS consortium.", "description": "Synopsys's UK quantum footprint is small and specific: its process-simulation (TCAD) software and a single Innovate UK consortium. Through Synopsys (Northern Europe) Limited it joined the sureCore-led cryo-CMOS project, funded by the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund from November 2021 to March 2025, using transistor measurements taken near absolute zero to refine its TCAD tools for chips that control qubits. The TCAD-to-SPICE flow involved came from Gold Standard Simulations, a University of Glasgow spin-out Synopsys bought in 2016.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/synopsys-uk/" }, { "slug": "teledyne-uk", "name": "Teledyne UK", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [], "city": "Chelmsford", "region": "East of England", "latitude": 51.7361, "longitude": 0.4798, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.teledyne-e2v.com", "shortSummary": "Chelmsford maker of the MINAC miniature atomic clock, developed with NPL under the KAIROS project; major partner in the Pioneer Gravity sensor consortium.", "description": "Teledyne UK, the Chelmsford business formerly known as e2v, turns laboratory atomic physics into timing and gravity-sensing hardware. It led KAIROS, a £7 million Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund project (November 2018 to 2021) that took NPL's miniature caesium clock to pre-production as MINAC, now built at its Essex site with UK supply chains for key parts such as VCSEL lasers. In March 2022 the aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales sailed for an Arctic exercise carrying a quantum clock developed with Teledyne, and the company was the largest industrial participant in RSK's Pioneer Gravity cold-atom sensor consortium (2018 to 2021).", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/teledyne-uk/" }, { "slug": "the-crown-estate", "name": "The Crown Estate", "shortName": null, "entityType": "government", "categories": [], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5089, "longitude": -0.1325, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.thecrownestate.co.uk", "shortSummary": "Holder of the seabed around England, Wales and Northern Ireland that tested quantum optimisation for offshore wind siting in an NQCC project.", "description": "The Crown Estate, which holds the seabed around England, Wales and Northern Ireland and enables 13GW of grid-connected offshore wind, has tested whether quantum computers could help plan wind farms. It joined an NQCC SparQ consortium led by Frazer-Nash Consultancy with ORCA Computing to run proof-of-concept studies of quantum optimisation for the renewable sector, from batteries to wind farm siting, contributing knowledge of the UK offshore wind industry while ORCA supplied photonic quantum expertise. The problem studied included choosing where new wind farms should go around the UK coast and what shape they should take.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/the-crown-estate/" }, { "slug": "tmd-technologies", "name": "TMD Technologies", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [], "city": "Hayes", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5072, "longitude": -0.4349, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.tmd.co.uk", "shortSummary": "Hayes RF and microwave firm whose HARLEQUIN cold-atom navigation system completed sea trials in 2025; former partner in the DISCOVERY consortium.", "description": "CPI TMD Technologies, a microwave and RF equipment maker in Hayes, Middlesex, has built a quantum navigation line around cold atoms. Its HARLEQUIN system combines a clock, a ring laser gyroscope and a MEMS accelerometer with a quantum accelerometer based on a grating magneto-optical trap (gMOT) developed with Strathclyde and Kelvin Nanotechnology, using the atoms to correct drift when satellite positioning is unavailable. Funded by Innovate UK, HARLEQUIN completed sea trials aboard Trinity House's THV Galatea, announced in December 2025. TMD was earlier a partner in M Squared's DISCOVERY consortium on supply chains for quantum computing (2020 to 2024).", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 2, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/tmd-technologies/" }, { "slug": "toshiba-europe", "name": "Toshiba Europe", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [], "city": "Cambridge", "region": "East of England", "latitude": 52.228, "longitude": 0.153, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.toshiba.eu/quantum/", "shortSummary": "Cambridge-based maker of quantum key distribution systems, supplier to BT's London quantum-secured network and partner in the Integrated Quantum Networks hub.", "description": "Quantum key distribution is the focus of Toshiba Europe's Cambridge laboratory, which sells long-distance and multiplexed QKD systems alongside a key management product. Its equipment runs on the quantum-secured metro network that BT operates in London, which HSBC joined in July 2023 to link Canary Wharf with a Berkshire data centre 62 km away. The Cambridge team reported twin-field QKD over more than 250 km of deployed fibre in Nature in April 2025, using room-temperature detectors. Toshiba Europe also partners the Integrated Quantum Networks hub, and in March 2026 launched a way to bridge separate QKD networks using post-quantum cryptography.", "projectsLed": 1, "projectsPartner": 9, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/toshiba-europe/" }, { "slug": "treq", "name": "TreQ", "shortName": null, "entityType": "startup", "categories": [ "Quantum-hardware", "Quantum-materials", "Quantum-systems", "Open-architecture" ], "city": "Oxford", "region": "South East", "latitude": 51.752, "longitude": -1.2577, "founded": "2023", "website": "https://treq.tech", "shortSummary": "Oxfordshire systems integrator building open-architecture quantum computers, including a multi-vendor testbed for Innovate UK's Quantum Missions pilot.", "description": "Rather than develop its own qubits, TreQ builds quantum computers from processors, control electronics and software supplied by different companies. Mandy Birch founded the Oxfordshire firm, which raised a $5m seed round led by Lavrock Ventures in October 2024. It then led an Innovate UK consortium with Rigetti UK, Oxford Ionics, Q-CTRL and Qruise on the Open Architecture Quantum Testbed, deployed in Oxfordshire for the Quantum Missions pilot. Announced in April 2026, the testbed switches by software between eight combinations of processor, control system and calibration stack within three racks.", "projectsLed": 1, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/treq/" }, { "slug": "tundrasystems-global", "name": "TundraSystems Global", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-hardware", "Photonic", "Quantum-processors", "Quantum-software" ], "city": "Cardiff", "region": "Wales", "latitude": 51.4816, "longitude": -3.1791, "founded": "2014", "website": "https://tsgl.xyz", "shortSummary": "Company in Cardiff working on quantum hardware and photonic, founded 2014.", "description": null, "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/tundrasystems-global/" }, { "slug": "ukri", "name": "UK Research and Innovation", "shortName": null, "entityType": "funder", "categories": [], "city": "Swindon", "region": "South West", "latitude": 51.5679, "longitude": -1.7853, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.ukri.org", "shortSummary": "The UK's main public funder of quantum research: EPSRC's five national hubs, the NQCC at Harwell and Innovate UK's industry competitions.", "description": "Most public money for UK quantum research passes through UKRI, with EPSRC heading its quantum technologies theme alongside STFC and Innovate UK. EPSRC delivers the five national quantum research hubs announced in July 2024, part of a £160m package that also drew on BBSRC, MRC, NIHR and industry. UKRI put an initial £93m, through EPSRC and STFC, into the National Quantum Computing Centre at Harwell. In March 2026 it added £20m for the NQCC and Edinburgh's Quantum Software Lab to benchmark quantum computers, £13.8m for the hubs and £12m for a commercialisation skills centre.", "projectsLed": 1, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 38, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/ukri/" }, { "slug": "universal-quantum", "name": "Universal Quantum", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-processors" ], "city": "Brighton", "region": "South East", "latitude": 50.8225, "longitude": -0.1372, "founded": "2018", "website": "https://universalquantum.com", "shortSummary": "Sussex spin-out building modular trapped-ion quantum computer chips that run at 70K; raised over $100m in an October 2026 Series A.", "description": "In October 2026 Universal Quantum raised more than $100m in a Series A co-led by DCVC and Firgun Ventures, which it describes as the largest for a UK-headquartered quantum computing firm. Founded in 2018 by Winfried Hensinger and Sebastian Weidt as a University of Sussex spin-out, it builds trapped-ion processor chips that operate at 70K and shuttle ions between modules over an electric-field link called UQConnect. It led a £7.5m Innovate UK consortium on error correction with Rolls-Royce, Riverlane, Imperial College London and Sussex, and holds a contract from the German Aerospace Center (DLR).", "projectsLed": 1, "projectsPartner": 3, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-10", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/universal-quantum/" }, { "slug": "university-college-london", "name": "University College London", "shortName": null, "entityType": "university", "categories": [ "Quantum-research", "Quantum-education" ], "city": "London", "region": "London", "latitude": 51.5246, "longitude": -0.134, "founded": "1826", "website": "https://www.ucl.ac.uk", "shortSummary": "Leads the Q-BIOMED quantum biomedical sensing hub and the UCL quantum institute; its researchers co-founded Phasecraft and Quantum Motion.", "description": "Quantum biomedicine is UCL's flagship national role: it leads Q-BIOMED, the hub building quantum sensors for earlier diagnosis of cancer, heart disease and Alzheimer's, with Cambridge, Oxford, Warwick, Cardiff and Heriot-Watt. John Morton, who directs the UCL Quantum Science and Technology Institute, is the hub's principal investigator, and in May 2026 it gained £902,000 from EPSRC's Accelerating Capability Fund to bring in new collaborators and map clinical needs with UCLPartners. UCL researchers co-founded the algorithms company Phasecraft in 2019 with the University of Bristol, and Morton is also a founder of silicon qubit maker Quantum Motion.", "projectsLed": 1, "projectsPartner": 5, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/university-college-london/" }, { "slug": "university-of-bath", "name": "University of Bath", "shortName": null, "entityType": "university", "categories": [], "city": "Bath", "region": "South West", "latitude": 51.3782, "longitude": -2.3264, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.bath.ac.uk", "shortSummary": "Bath designs specialty hollow-core optical fibres for quantum light sources and networks, and partnered in the QCS hub and ORCA's data centre project.", "description": "Bath's Centre for Photonics designs microstructured and hollow-core optical fibres for quantum technologies, using patterns of air channels to make entangled photon pairs, shift photon colour or trap single atoms, as its researchers described in a July 2024 perspective in APL Quantum. The university was a partner in the 2019 to 2024 Quantum Computing and Simulation Hub and in ORCA Computing's Quantum Data Centre of the Future project.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 3, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/university-of-bath/" }, { "slug": "university-of-birmingham", "name": "University of Birmingham", "shortName": null, "entityType": "university", "categories": [], "city": "Birmingham", "region": "West Midlands", "latitude": 52.4508, "longitude": -1.9305, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.birmingham.ac.uk", "shortSummary": "Birmingham leads QuSIT, the UK quantum sensing, imaging and timing hub, and made the first field find with a quantum gravity gradiometer.", "description": "The University of Birmingham leads QuSIT, the national hub for quantum sensing, imaging and timing, with a £22.0m EPSRC grant for 2024 to 2029 and Michael Holynski as principal investigator. It also led the earlier UK Quantum Technology Hub in Sensors and Timing from 2019. Holynski's team located a buried tunnel with a quantum gravity gradiometer, reported in Nature in 2022 as the first such find outside a laboratory. Current hub work includes a Birmingham-led trial, supported by BAE Systems, that feeds Infleqtion's Tiqker quantum clocks into the ADRAN radar testbed.", "projectsLed": 2, "projectsPartner": 4, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/university-of-birmingham/" }, { "slug": "university-of-bristol", "name": "University of Bristol", "shortName": null, "entityType": "university", "categories": [ "Quantum-research", "Quantum-photonics" ], "city": "Bristol", "region": "South West", "latitude": 51.4545, "longitude": -2.5879, "founded": "1876", "website": "https://www.bristol.ac.uk", "shortSummary": "Bristol's quantum photonics base: QET Labs, three national hub partnerships and a £35m innovation centre hosting KETS, QLM and Phasecraft.", "description": "At Bristol, quantum research runs through the Quantum Engineering Technology (QET) Labs, which apply integrated quantum photonics (steering single photons around chips, an approach the labs say was invented in Bristol) to computing, sensing and secure communication. The university is a partner in the IQN, QuSIT and QEPNT research hubs and co-runs a doctoral training centre in quantum information science with Sussex. Its Quantum Technologies Innovation Centre, backed by £35m from local government, hosts start-ups including KETS Quantum Security, QLM and Phasecraft. In September 2026 a QET team reported a silicon chip that used four-mode entanglement to measure below the shot-noise limit.", "projectsLed": 1, "projectsPartner": 12, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/university-of-bristol/" }, { "slug": "university-of-cambridge", "name": "University of Cambridge", "shortName": null, "entityType": "university", "categories": [ "Quantum-research", "Quantum-education" ], "city": "Cambridge", "region": "East of England", "latitude": 52.2053, "longitude": 0.1218, "founded": "1209", "website": "https://www.cam.ac.uk", "shortSummary": "Co-leads the Q-BIOMED quantum sensing hub, partners in QEPNT, runs a Cambridge to Bristol quantum network testbed and is hosting an IonQ centre.", "description": "At the Cavendish Laboratory, whose head Mete Atatüre co-directs the Q-BIOMED hub, Cambridge works on quantum sensors for medicine with UCL and four other universities. It is also one of ten universities in the QEPNT navigation and timing hub, and it has built a fibre testbed to Bristol that IonQ describes as one of the longest experimental quantum communication networks in the UK. In March 2026 Cambridge and IonQ agreed to set up an IonQ Quantum Innovation Centre, with plans to install a 256-qubit chip-based machine on campus.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 9, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/university-of-cambridge/" }, { "slug": "university-of-edinburgh", "name": "University of Edinburgh", "shortName": null, "entityType": "university", "categories": [], "city": "Edinburgh", "region": "Scotland", "latitude": 55.9445, "longitude": -3.1892, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.ed.ac.uk", "shortSummary": "Home of the Quantum Software Lab, whose Elham Kashefi is NQCC chief scientist; partner in the IQN and QEPNT hubs and source of Singular Photonics.", "description": "Edinburgh's distinctive quantum strength is software and verification. Its Quantum Software Lab works with industry on algorithms and on ways to check that answers from quantum hardware can be trusted, and informatics professor Elham Kashefi is seconded part-time as chief scientist of the National Quantum Computing Centre. The university is a partner in the Integrated Quantum Networks and QEPNT hubs, and Robert Henderson's single-photon image sensor research there led to the spin-out Singular Photonics. The lab's Quantum Fringe festival ran events across the city from May to June 2026.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 9, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/university-of-edinburgh/" }, { "slug": "university-of-exeter", "name": "University of Exeter", "shortName": null, "entityType": "university", "categories": [], "city": "Exeter", "region": "South West", "latitude": 50.7352, "longitude": -3.534, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.exeter.ac.uk", "shortSummary": "Exeter's quantum research: Janet Anders's group on quantum sensing and fibre-link security, plus a work package in the QuantIC imaging hub.", "description": "Exeter's quantum work centres on Professor Janet Anders's Quantum Non-Equilibrium Group in Physics and Astronomy. In February 2026 the university said it would lead the UK side of a five-year project with Nottingham, King's College London and three Japanese universities on noise-resistant atom and photon sensors, with £1.5m from UKRI for the UK team. A smaller £150,000 project with the University of Queensland, Quantum Link Verification, aims by 2027 to prototype a way of spotting fibre-optic eavesdroppers using single photons. Exeter physicist Jacopo Bertolotti also led a work package on imaging through scattering media in phase 2 of the QuantIC imaging hub.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/university-of-exeter/" }, { "slug": "university-of-glasgow", "name": "University of Glasgow", "shortName": null, "entityType": "university", "categories": [], "city": "Glasgow", "region": "Scotland", "latitude": 55.8721, "longitude": -4.2882, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.gla.ac.uk", "shortSummary": "Lead of the QEPNT quantum navigation and timing hub, former lead of the QuantIC imaging hub, and home of the Centre for Quantum Technology.", "description": "Glasgow leads QEPNT, the national hub for quantum position, navigation and timing, under principal investigator Douglas Paul. Its £21.9m EPSRC grant runs from December 2024 to November 2029, and the work targets quantum clocks and position sensors that reduce dependence on satellite signals. Before that the university led QuantIC, the national quantum imaging hub, and in September 2021 it opened a Centre for Quantum Technology, directed by Miles Padgett, which draws on the James Watt Nanofabrication Centre. Quantcore, a Glasgow spin-out building quantum hardware, won the Institute of Physics qBIG prize in June 2026.", "projectsLed": 3, "projectsPartner": 10, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/university-of-glasgow/" }, { "slug": "university-of-kent", "name": "University of Kent", "shortName": null, "entityType": "university", "categories": [], "city": "Canterbury", "region": "South East", "latitude": 51.298, "longitude": 1.07, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.kent.ac.uk", "shortSummary": "Kent's quantum work runs through QuARC in Canterbury, host of the NQCC's first SparQ Access Showcase in 2026, and the Quantum Communications Hub.", "description": "Canterbury hosted the first SparQ Access Showcase on 30 September and 1 October 2026, a National Quantum Computing Centre event run by Kent's Quantum Applications Research Centre (QuARC). QuARC links physics, computing and the business school, with groups in applied optics, quantum materials and cyber security; Dr Jorge Quintanilla directs it. Kent researchers use NQCC-provided cloud quantum hardware for work on autonomous vehicles, bitcoin mining's data demands and the threat quantum computers pose to cryptography. The university is also listed as an academic partner of the York-led Quantum Communications Hub.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/university-of-kent/" }, { "slug": "university-of-nottingham", "name": "University of Nottingham", "shortName": null, "entityType": "university", "categories": [], "city": "Nottingham", "region": "East Midlands", "latitude": 52.9387, "longitude": -1.1951, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.nottingham.ac.uk", "shortSummary": "Nottingham developed wearable quantum OPM-MEG brain scanners, spun out Cerca Magnetics, and partners in the QuSIT sensing hub.", "description": "Helmets fitted with optically pumped magnetometers, which record brain activity while the wearer moves, are the University of Nottingham's signature quantum project; its School of Physics and Astronomy developed them and spun them out as Cerca Magnetics in 2020. In December 2025 the Ministry of Defence committed more than £3m to a fully mobile version for studying blast exposure in troops, built by Cerca with Nottingham physicists, the University of Birmingham and Magnetic Shields. Nottingham was a partner in the Birmingham-led Sensors and Timing hub from 2019 to 2024 and is a partner in its successor, the QuSIT hub.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 2, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/university-of-nottingham/" }, { "slug": "university-of-oxford", "name": "University of Oxford", "shortName": null, "entityType": "university", "categories": [ "Quantum-hardware", "Quantum-algorithms", "Quantum-communications", "Quantum-education", "Quantum-investment", "Quantum-research", "Quantum-software", "Trapped-ion" ], "city": "Oxford", "region": "South East", "latitude": 51.752, "longitude": -1.2577, "founded": "1096", "website": "https://www.ox.ac.uk", "shortSummary": "Oxford leads the QCi3 quantum computing hub and is known for trapped-ion research and spin-outs such as Oxford Ionics and Quantum Motion.", "description": "Oxford leads QCi3, the national research hub for quantum computing, funded with £21.9m from EPSRC for 2024 to 2029 and directed by Dominic O'Brien; it also led the preceding Quantum Computing and Simulation Hub from 2019. Trapped ions are a particular strength. In February 2025 David Lucas's group reported in Nature a distributed algorithm run across two ion-trap modules linked by photons. Companies built on Oxford research include Oxford Ionics, which IonQ bought in 2025, and Quantum Motion, co-founded with UCL.", "projectsLed": 2, "projectsPartner": 8, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/university-of-oxford/" }, { "slug": "university-of-sheffield", "name": "University of Sheffield", "shortName": null, "entityType": "university", "categories": [], "city": "Sheffield", "region": "Yorkshire and the Humber", "latitude": 53.3814, "longitude": -1.4884, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.sheffield.ac.uk", "shortSummary": "Sheffield grows quantum dots for single-photon sources, hosts the National Epitaxy Facility and partners in the Integrated Quantum Networks hub.", "description": "Sheffield's quantum research is rooted in semiconductor photonics: its Quantum Centre grows III-V quantum dots and builds on-chip nanostructures that emit and route single photons, including infrared emitters aimed at quantum communication. The university also hosts the EPSRC National Epitaxy Facility with Cambridge and UCL, growing compound semiconductor and silicon-germanium wafers for academic and industrial users. It is a partner in the Integrated Quantum Networks hub, and in the previous phase supplied quantum-dot emitters and network protocols to the York-led Quantum Communications Hub and compilation software to the Oxford-led computing hub.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 7, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/university-of-sheffield/" }, { "slug": "university-of-southampton", "name": "University of Southampton", "shortName": null, "entityType": "university", "categories": [], "city": "Southampton", "region": "South East", "latitude": 50.9351, "longitude": -1.3958, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.southampton.ac.uk", "shortSummary": "Southampton runs an £18m doctoral centre in quantum technology engineering and partners in the IQN networks and QuSIT sensing hubs.", "description": "Southampton's quantum research spans physics, mathematics and the Optoelectronics Research Centre, linked through a university Quantum Technology Centre. In March 2024 EPSRC funding launched an £18m Centre for Doctoral Training in Quantum Technology Engineering, backed by Microsoft, QinetiQ, Riverlane and Oxford Ionics. The university partners in two current national hubs, IQN for networks and QuSIT for sensing, and earlier took part in the Gravity Pioneer gravity-sensing project and ORCA Computing's Quantum Data Centre of the Future.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 9, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/university-of-southampton/" }, { "slug": "university-of-strathclyde", "name": "University of Strathclyde", "shortName": null, "entityType": "university", "categories": [], "city": "Glasgow", "region": "Scotland", "latitude": 55.8621, "longitude": -4.2424, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.strath.ac.uk", "shortSummary": "Glasgow university behind the UK's quantum magnetometer network for space weather, lead of the Applied Quantum Technologies CDT, and partner in three hubs.", "description": "Strathclyde's quantum work in Glasgow spans atomic sensors, photonics and doctoral training. With STFC RAL Space, its physicists built the five quantum magnetometers installed across the UK in 2025, giving the British Geological Survey national coverage of magnetic storms. The university leads the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Applied Quantum Technologies with Glasgow and Heriot-Watt, and partners in the IQN, QuSIT and QEPNT hubs and in SPOQC, the quantum key distribution CubeSat launched in March 2026. A planned Quantum Centre for Nuclear Defence and Security pairs it with AWE.", "projectsLed": 1, "projectsPartner": 15, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/university-of-strathclyde/" }, { "slug": "university-of-surrey", "name": "University of Surrey", "shortName": null, "entityType": "university", "categories": [], "city": "Guildford", "region": "South East", "latitude": 51.2425, "longitude": -0.5895, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.surrey.ac.uk", "shortSummary": "Surrey's quantum work: the SHOQ superfluid helium qubit design, single-ion implantation at its Ion Beam Centre, and past national hub roles.", "description": "A qubit made from superfluid helium-3 is the newest idea from the University of Surrey's Quantum Sciences Group: in September 2026 Priya Sharma and Eran Ginossar, with Northwestern's Jens Koch, published the SHOQ design in npj Quantum Information, predicting errors about 100 times lower than superconducting qubits. Later that month Sharma won a £1.3 million UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship. At its Ion Beam Centre, an EPSRC national facility, SIMPLE tools implant single impurity atoms with nanometre precision for donor spin qubits and single photon sources. Surrey also partnered in the Quantum Computing and Simulation Hub and hosted a node of NPL's National Timing Centre programme.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 2, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/university-of-surrey/" }, { "slug": "university-of-sussex", "name": "University of Sussex", "shortName": null, "entityType": "university", "categories": [], "city": "Brighton", "region": "South East", "latitude": 50.867, "longitude": -0.0877, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.sussex.ac.uk", "shortSummary": "Sussex's quantum centre near Brighton: trapped-ion research, the Universal Quantum spin-out and a £24m doctoral training centre run with Bristol.", "description": "The University of Sussex's Centre for Quantum Technologies, on its campus near Brighton, has groups working on ion-trap processors, ion-photon interfaces, quantum simulators, superconducting circuits and quantum-enhanced metrology. Its best-known spin-out, Universal Quantum, was founded in 2018 and led a £7.5m Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund consortium, with Sussex and Rolls-Royce among the partners, to build an error-correcting trapped-ion machine. Since September 2024 Sussex has led, with Bristol, a £24m EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Quantum Information Science and Technologies, backed by the NQCC, NPL, BT and PsiQuantum. It was also a partner in the earlier Quantum Computing and Simulation and Sensors and Timing hubs.", "projectsLed": 1, "projectsPartner": 4, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/university-of-sussex/" }, { "slug": "university-of-warwick", "name": "University of Warwick", "shortName": null, "entityType": "university", "categories": [], "city": "Coventry", "region": "West Midlands", "latitude": 52.3793, "longitude": -1.5615, "founded": null, "website": "https://warwick.ac.uk", "shortSummary": "Warwick Quantum links the university's diamond sensing, germanium materials and quantum theory groups, with staff in the Q-BIOMED, QCi3 and IQN hubs.", "description": "Warwick gathered its quantum researchers from physics, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, engineering and WMG into Warwick Quantum, launched in July 2025. Staff contribute to three of the five national hubs: diamond-based sensing for Q-BIOMED, Animesh Datta's work for QCi3, and Gavin Morley's for IQN. Semiconductor materials are another strand; in July 2026 Maksym Myronov and NRC Canada proposed quantum phononic links, in which vibrations in a semiconductor chip would carry quantum information between distant qubits.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 6, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/university-of-warwick/" }, { "slug": "university-of-york", "name": "University of York", "shortName": null, "entityType": "university", "categories": [], "city": "York", "region": "Yorkshire and the Humber", "latitude": 53.9461, "longitude": -1.0533, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.york.ac.uk", "shortSummary": "Host of the national Quantum Communications Hub to 2024; its researchers built a quantum source payload for the SPOQC CubeSat launched in March 2026.", "description": "The University of York hosted the national Quantum Communications Hub for a decade (2014 to 2024), which concentrated on quantum key distribution and built out the UK Quantum Network (UKQN). Phase 2 alone carried £23.5m of government funding, with BT, ID Quantique and Teledyne e2v among its industrial partners. York researchers went on to build the continuous-variable source payload for SPOQC, the CubeSat launched on 30 March 2026 under the Heriot-Watt-led Integrated Quantum Networks Hub. In August 2026 the team reported drawing certified random numbers from the payload's engineering model.", "projectsLed": 1, "projectsPartner": 2, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/university-of-york/" }, { "slug": "vector-photonics", "name": "Vector Photonics", "shortName": null, "entityType": "startup", "categories": [], "city": "Glasgow", "region": "Scotland", "latitude": 55.8721, "longitude": -4.2882, "founded": null, "website": "https://vectorphotonics.co.uk", "shortSummary": "Glasgow spin-out making PCSEL lasers that led QUDITS2, a Quantum Missions pilot project on qudit-based quantum communication.", "description": "Vector Photonics, a University of Glasgow spin-out, makes photonic-crystal surface-emitting lasers (PCSELs), semiconductor lasers that send a narrow, bright beam straight up from the chip and can be produced with existing manufacturing processes. Its quantum work applies them to communications: it led QUDITS2, one of the ten projects in Innovate UK's March 2025 Quantum Missions pilot awards, building a demonstrator for quantum communication with qudits, which encode more than two levels, at optical communications wavelengths. Partners were the Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult, Phlux Technology and the University of Bristol, following an earlier Innovate UK QUDITS feasibility study.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 2, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/vector-photonics/" }, { "slug": "vodafone", "name": "Vodafone", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-communications", "Quantum-security" ], "city": "Newbury", "region": "South East", "latitude": 51.4014, "longitude": -1.3231, "founded": "1984", "website": "https://www.vodafone.com", "shortSummary": "Vodafone tests ORCA's photonic quantum computer on fibre network design and IBM post-quantum cryptography for its Secure Net service.", "description": "Vodafone's quantum work splits between protecting its networks and testing quantum computers on network design. At MWC in March 2025 it showed IBM's quantum-safe cryptography added to Vodafone Secure Net, its smartphone security service. In June 2025 it began trying ORCA Computing's PT-2 photonic processor on fibre network planning, solving a Steiner Tree problem with support from the UK Quantum Technology Access Programme. Vodafone was also a partner in Xairos UK's TimeLink project, which finished phase one of Innovate UK's quantum navigation and timing mission in May 2026.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 1, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/vodafone/" }, { "slug": "wave-photonics", "name": "Wave Photonics", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-photonics", "Quantum-hardware" ], "city": "Cambridge", "region": "East of England", "latitude": 52.2053, "longitude": 0.1218, "founded": "2021", "website": "https://www.wavephotonics.com", "shortSummary": "Cambridge photonic chip design firm making PDKs and packaging kits for quantum photonics; led an Innovate UK trapped-ion photonics project with Oxford Ionics.", "description": "Founded in Cambridge in May 2021 by researchers from Toshiba's Quantum Information Group, Wave Photonics designs photonic integrated circuits and the process design kits foundries and chip designers need to build them, with quantum one of its main markets beside datacoms and sensing. Its QPICPAC assembly kit packages quantum photonic chips. In December 2023 it led a £500,000 Innovate UK project with Oxford Ionics, the CORNERSTONE foundry at Southampton and CSA Catapult on integrated photonics for trapped-ion quantum computers, and in June 2024 raised £4.5m in seed funding. Chip-based QKD start-up Xen Quantum spun out of it in 2026.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/wave-photonics/" }, { "slug": "west-of-england-combined-authority", "name": "West of England Combined Authority", "shortName": null, "entityType": "government", "categories": [], "city": "Bristol", "region": "South West", "latitude": 51.4545, "longitude": -2.5879, "founded": null, "website": "https://www.westofengland-ca.gov.uk", "shortSummary": "Regional authority funding Bristol's £35m Quantum Technologies Innovation Centre and a quantum growth link with the US consortium Elevate Quantum.", "description": "The West of England Mayoral Combined Authority is the main public backer of the University of Bristol's Quantum Technologies Innovation Centre (QTIC), which helps quantum start-ups become commercially viable. It approved £20m in October 2019 to expand the centre on the Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus, and its backing has since reached £35m, with the campus due to open in 2026. In November 2025 the authority, the university and Elevate Quantum, the Denver-based US regional consortium, signed a transatlantic agreement creating a Quantum Growth Bridge between the West of England and the Mountain West.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 1, "lastVerified": null, "source": "research", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/west-of-england-combined-authority/" }, { "slug": "xen-quantum", "name": "Xen Quantum", "shortName": null, "entityType": "startup", "categories": [ "Quantum-communications", "Qkd", "Quantum-cryptography", "Quantum-photonics", "Quantum-components", "Quantum-security" ], "city": "Cambridge", "region": "East of England", "latitude": 52.2053, "longitude": 0.1218, "founded": "2025", "website": "https://xenquantum.com", "shortSummary": "Cambridge-area Wave Photonics spin-out developing silicon-photonics QKD modules for existing telecom networks; out of stealth with seed funding in June 2026.", "description": "Xen Quantum wants to shrink quantum key distribution onto chips, building QKD modules in silicon photonics with fabrication processes already proven for mass production so they can slot into existing telecom networks. Mirko Pittaluga (CEO) and Davide Scalcon (CTO) founded it as a spin-out of Wave Photonics, and the company was registered in Cambourne, near Cambridge, in January 2025. It came out of stealth in June 2026 with seed backing from Cambridge Enterprise, Parkwalk, QAI Ventures, Silicon Catalyst and Berkeley SkyDeck.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/xen-quantum/" }, { "slug": "zaiku-group", "name": "Zaiku Group", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-software", "Post-quantum-cryptography", "Quantum-education", "Quantum-algorithms" ], "city": "Prescot", "region": "North West", "latitude": 53.42758, "longitude": -2.80425, "founded": "2013", "website": "https://zaikugroup.com", "shortSummary": "Merseyside maths and cryptography firm building the Sakurai platform for privacy-preserving quantum and hybrid biomedical computation.", "description": "Zaiku Group applies mathematics to cryptography and privacy-preserving computing, and its quantum work sits where those meet sensitive biomedical data. Its Sakurai platform, in early access, helps research teams compare classical, quantum-inspired, hybrid and quantum methods using federated quantum learning, homomorphic encryption and zero-knowledge proofs, with a tool for judging which quantum processors suit a workload. Innovate UK funded two Zaiku-led feasibility studies: a 2021 quantum platform for privacy-preserving genomics and a £220,000 project (August 2023 to August 2024) on secure federated quantum machine learning for genomics with Homomorphic Labs, STFC and the University of Malta.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/zaiku-group/" }, { "slug": "zero-point-motion", "name": "Zero Point Motion", "shortName": null, "entityType": "commercial", "categories": [ "Quantum-hardware", "Quantum-sensing", "Quantum-photonics" ], "city": "Bristol", "region": "South West", "latitude": 51.4545, "longitude": -2.5879, "founded": "2020", "website": "https://www.zeropointmotion.com", "shortSummary": "Bristol maker of photonic MEMS accelerometers and gyroscopes for navigation without satellites, based at the Quantum Technologies Innovation Centre.", "description": "Zero Point Motion makes accelerometers and gyroscopes that combine silicon photonics with MEMS, borrowing principles from gravitational-wave detectors, and says they are about 100 times more sensitive than conventional MEMS sensors. Founded by Ying Lia Li, the Bristol company has had lab space at the University of Bristol's Quantum Technologies Innovation Centre since 2022. It raised a £4m pre-Series A in March 2025 from Science Creates Ventures, Foresight Group and Verve Ventures, with u-blox staying on as a partner and customer, after £1.3m from the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles in 2023 and a €2.4m EIC Accelerator grant.", "projectsLed": 0, "projectsPartner": 0, "projectsFunded": 0, "lastVerified": "2026-10-02", "source": "entangledfuture", "url": "https://quantum.org.uk/organisations/zero-point-motion/" } ]