Start-up · London
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.
Lumino Technologies, based in London, is a start-up whose work covers quantum communications, qkd and networking; it was founded in 2024. It appears as a partner in IQN and Quantum Missions pilot. Profiled here: Omar Iqbal (CEO and Interim CTO).
Sources: Lumino successfully completes sovereign Entangled Photon Source project (June 2026) · Lumino kicks off ESA project to deliver FALQON receivers (July 2026) · LUMINO TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED (Companies House)
IQN
A national research hub building quantum networks, from local links to satellite connections. Heriot-Watt University leads it.
Role: Partner
Funding: £21.9m
Themes: Networks, Communications
Quantum Missions pilot
An Innovate UK competition that funded industry projects in quantum computing and quantum networks towards the UK quantum missions.
Role: Partner
Themes: Computing, Networks
Recent articles from Quantum Zeitgeist that mention Lumino Technologies.
Xairos has completed Phase 1 of the £1.4 million TimeLink program, an Innovate UK project focused on de-risking the company’s quantum protocols for resilient, GNSS-independent timing. This work establishes a UK-based hardware and software baseline, advancing next-generation timing technologies and s
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Xairos UK, Ltd. has completed Phase 1 of the £1.4 million TimeLink program, funded by Innovate UK, which de-risks the company’s quantum protocols for resilient, GNSS-independent timing. This work establishes a UK-based hardware and software baseline, advancing next-generation timing technologies.
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Twelve UK-based projects have secured £35 million in government funding to develop quantum computing and networking technologies, targeting one million quantum operations by 2028 and scaling up to one trillion by 2035, with a focus on fault-tolerant systems, high-speed networks, and secure communica
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