Sparrow Quantum A/S is a privately held company that develops and commercializes photonic quantum technology components based on research and patents developed in the Niels Bohr Institute Quantum Photonics Lab. The Niels Bohr Institute’s Quantum Photonics Lab, headed by professor Peter Lodahl, is part of the Danish Center for Quantum Innovation, Qubiz, funded by Innovation Fund Denmark –– a national large scale investment in quantum technologies.
Qu & Co is a developer of quantum-computational software focused on creating algorithms tailored for optimizing specialty chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and functional materials. The company's team of highly skilled quantum developers collaborates closely with clients and academic advisors to design innovative quantum algorithms and translate them into effective software solutions. Qu & Co's offerings enhance in-house discovery and optimization processes by advancing quantum-computational chemistry methods, seamlessly integrating with existing workflows in chemistry and material science. This enables clients in the pharmaceutical and other industries to conduct complex chemistry and multiphysics simulations on emerging quantum processors.
Quandela SAS, founded in 2017 and based in Palaiseau, France, specializes in the production of photonic and semiconductor chips designed for quantum computing applications. The company is recognized for its innovative product, E-delight, which serves as a solid-state source of single and highly indistinguishable photons. This technology plays a crucial role in advancing quantum photonics and quantum information research. Quandela's single-photon source device integrates photonics with semiconductor quantum dots, facilitating efficient collection of emitted single photons at high rates. This capability significantly reduces charge noise decoherence and enhances the emission of identical photons, which is vital for the development of advanced quantum technologies, including communication, computation, and sensing. By focusing on the unique properties of quantum light, Quandela contributes to the progress of photon-based quantum computing and communication networks.
Xelera's software makes state-of-the-art accelerator technology accessible to commercial applications in the data center and in the cloud. Due to the growing data volume and emerging demand for real-time analytics, businesses are increasingly required to build up accelerated data processing capabilities. FPGAs and GPUs will become an integral part of tomorrow’s data centers, cloud services and IoT infrastructure, powering a broad range of constantly evolving business applications. Accelerator technology can provide orders-of-magnitude acceleration to business-critical applications using Big Data analytics, machine learning, database management and to IoT infrastructures. FPGAs boost the energy efficiency of data center servers and can substantially reduce TCO.
Quandela SAS, founded in 2017 and based in Palaiseau, France, specializes in the production of photonic and semiconductor chips designed for quantum computing applications. The company is recognized for its innovative product, E-delight, which serves as a solid-state source of single and highly indistinguishable photons. This technology plays a crucial role in advancing quantum photonics and quantum information research. Quandela's single-photon source device integrates photonics with semiconductor quantum dots, facilitating efficient collection of emitted single photons at high rates. This capability significantly reduces charge noise decoherence and enhances the emission of identical photons, which is vital for the development of advanced quantum technologies, including communication, computation, and sensing. By focusing on the unique properties of quantum light, Quandela contributes to the progress of photon-based quantum computing and communication networks.
Developer of computing software intended to speed up the process of physical verification of integrated circuits (ICs). The company researches and creates technologies and software that integrate advanced parallel computing, accelerate machine simulations, and automate circuit verification, enabling clients to ramp up their IC design and verification process, deliver custom IP, and ensure bug-free silicon.
QuantWare engages in designing, developing, and fabricating hardware to enable quantum computing.
sensiBel AS, founded in 2016 and located in Oslo, Norway, specializes in the development of ultra-high-sensitivity microphones utilizing optical micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) technology. The company focuses on creating microphones that offer optical ultra-low noise performance, enhancing voice control technology without sacrificing acoustic overload point and total harmonic distortion. This innovative approach enables superior speech recognition capabilities and high-quality audio capture, making it a valuable contributor to advancements in voice control applications.
Lumiphase develops novel optical communication chips that are very inexpensive, super compact, and highly efficient.
Avantama is a leading developer of nanomaterials specifically tailored for electronic applications. The company specializes in nanoparticle dispersions and formulations, offering a range of services including joint development, contract licensing, and customized compositions. Avantama's innovative material technologies facilitate the creation of high-quality optical and electronic coatings using established printing and coating techniques. With a production capacity at the multi-ton scale and adherence to high industry standards, Avantama supports various applications such as displays, OLEDs, Quantum Dot Displays, and solution-processed organic photovoltaics. This capability not only enhances product development but also accelerates time-to-market for its clients, positioning Avantama as a preferred partner for future innovations in the electronics sector.
Pasqal SAS, founded in 2019 and headquartered in Paris, France, specializes in the manufacture of quantum information processors utilizing atomic arrays. The company focuses on developing full-stack quantum computing technology that simulates complex phenomena to facilitate scientific discovery. Its innovative approach employs qubits made of neutral atoms organized in large two-dimensional and three-dimensional arrays, which enables analog computing. This technology addresses a variety of challenges, including optimization, drug discovery, and machine learning, empowering organizations to tackle complex problems across these fields.
Dracula Technologies SAS specializes in the design and manufacture of organic photovoltaic cells aimed at providing energy autonomy for connected devices. Founded in 2011 and based in Valence, France, the company develops products that enable small electronic devices, such as phones, GPS units, and lamps, to self-recharge using solar energy. Their flagship product, Light As Your Energetic Response (LAYER), is designed to capture various forms of light, both indoors and outdoors, and convert it into usable energy through advanced digital printing techniques. The team consists of approximately 20 members, including a scientific committee and an administrative committee, all dedicated to fostering innovation and collaboration within the company. Dracula Technologies operates as a subsidiary of Ardeje.
Pasqal SAS, founded in 2019 and headquartered in Paris, France, specializes in the manufacture of quantum information processors utilizing atomic arrays. The company focuses on developing full-stack quantum computing technology that simulates complex phenomena to facilitate scientific discovery. Its innovative approach employs qubits made of neutral atoms organized in large two-dimensional and three-dimensional arrays, which enables analog computing. This technology addresses a variety of challenges, including optimization, drug discovery, and machine learning, empowering organizations to tackle complex problems across these fields.
Qnami AG manufactures non-invasive sensors. Its products include ProteusQ, non-invasive magnetic imaging microscope; and Quantum Diamond, which includes Quantilevers MX, diamond probes containing a single NV for high resolution magnetic imaging, and NV diamond membranes, ready-to-use diamond with NV centers. Its applications are multiferroic antiferromagnet, antiferromagnetic ram, microwave imaging, magnetic nanomemories, and superconductivity. Qnami AG was founded in 2017 and is based in Basel, Switzerland.
Insolight is an energy company that develops and manufactures solar panels.
Insolight has developed solar modules with record efficiency 29 percent to reduce residential solar electricity costs below 0.1 $/kWh. Its innovative optical technology combines high efficiency with the ease of mounting of a standard flat panel. Insolight has successfully passed third-party validation at Fraunhofer ISE (36% efficiency on Lab prototype) and at the UPM in Madrid (29% on pre-industrial module). Its business model is to develop the IP, control wholesale distribution and outsource manufacturing.
The company was founded in 2015.
Scrona is all about simplifying micro- and nanotechnology, from the consumer- and industry-perspective. We offer solutions for convenient microscopic visualization and develop an ink-jet related printing technology that will revolutionize micro- and nanofabrication.
Equal1 Laboratories is accelerating the introduction of useful, cost effective quantum computers within a three-year time horizon. The company has developed a disruptive, scalable and cost-effective quantum computing technology, based on a commercially available silicon semiconductor process. Our solution uses nanometer-scale quantum dots to form qubits on a standard silicon CMOS process. Along with silicon qubits, we have integrated all functions required for a quantum processing unit (QPU) – the brain of the quantum computer – which operates at 3 kelvin with over 10 million transistors. This is the first integrated quantum processing unit of its kind.
Equal1 Laboratories is accelerating the introduction of useful, cost effective quantum computers within a three-year time horizon. The company has developed a disruptive, scalable and cost-effective quantum computing technology, based on a commercially available silicon semiconductor process. Our solution uses nanometer-scale quantum dots to form qubits on a standard silicon CMOS process. Along with silicon qubits, we have integrated all functions required for a quantum processing unit (QPU) – the brain of the quantum computer – which operates at 3 kelvin with over 10 million transistors. This is the first integrated quantum processing unit of its kind.
Quandela SAS, founded in 2017 and based in Palaiseau, France, specializes in the production of photonic and semiconductor chips designed for quantum computing applications. The company is recognized for its innovative product, E-delight, which serves as a solid-state source of single and highly indistinguishable photons. This technology plays a crucial role in advancing quantum photonics and quantum information research. Quandela's single-photon source device integrates photonics with semiconductor quantum dots, facilitating efficient collection of emitted single photons at high rates. This capability significantly reduces charge noise decoherence and enhances the emission of identical photons, which is vital for the development of advanced quantum technologies, including communication, computation, and sensing. By focusing on the unique properties of quantum light, Quandela contributes to the progress of photon-based quantum computing and communication networks.
QphoX builds quantum modem device, connecting quantum computers across a quantum network.
QphoX builds quantum modem device, connecting quantum computers across a quantum network.
SiPearl is a semiconductor company that commercializes the work of the European Processor Initiative (EPI) and bring a low-power microprocessor to market for exascale supercomputing. The company aims to design, market, and distribute its first range of processors with a commercial launch in 2022 based on a roadmap closely aligned with the European Union’s goals. It has already committed to producing its chips using N6 or better processes from TSMC. It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Maisons-Laffitte, Île-de-France.
Simplicity Works develops its patented technology 3D Bonding - the simplest method for joining pieces.
Seqana specializes in satellite-based monitoring of soil organic carbon for the voluntary carbon market. They enable access with monitoring, reporting, and verification technologies, and they supply monitoring, reporting, and verification data for natural climate solutions projects. They provide services that include project origination stratification and sampling.
Delmic B.V., based in Delft, the Netherlands, specializes in manufacturing correlative light and electron microscopy solutions aimed at advancing life and materials science research. The company’s primary products include SECOM, which integrates fluorescence and electron microscopy; SPARC, a high-performance cathodoluminescence detection system; and Delphi, a combined fluorescence and scanning electron microscope. Delmic also develops software designed to facilitate navigation within its integrated microscopy systems. Founded in 2010, the company is committed to providing effective and user-friendly tools that enhance research capabilities, enabling researchers and organizations to gain insights more efficiently.
UPMEM is implementing the first scalable, programmable and efficient Processing-In-Memory (PIM) solution for the datacenter.
In server architectures, Big Data processing performance is limited by data movements. UPMEM solution accelerates 10+ times data-intensive applications with an innovative solution based on a large number of programmable co-processors located next to the data.
Pasqal SAS, founded in 2019 and headquartered in Paris, France, specializes in the manufacture of quantum information processors utilizing atomic arrays. The company focuses on developing full-stack quantum computing technology that simulates complex phenomena to facilitate scientific discovery. Its innovative approach employs qubits made of neutral atoms organized in large two-dimensional and three-dimensional arrays, which enables analog computing. This technology addresses a variety of challenges, including optimization, drug discovery, and machine learning, empowering organizations to tackle complex problems across these fields.
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Sparrow Quantum A/S is a privately held company that develops and commercializes photonic quantum technology components based on research and patents developed in the Niels Bohr Institute Quantum Photonics Lab. The Niels Bohr Institute’s Quantum Photonics Lab, headed by professor Peter Lodahl, is part of the Danish Center for Quantum Innovation, Qubiz, funded by Innovation Fund Denmark –– a national large scale investment in quantum technologies.
QphoX builds quantum modem device, connecting quantum computers across a quantum network.
Developer of parallel dispensing technology designed to reduce material consumption in the PV (Photovoltaics ) industry. The company's technology is used to apply front metal contacts onto solar cells and can be integrated into conventional production lines for silicon solar cells, replacing the screen printing process normally used for the front-side metal contacts, enabling clients to save resources, increasing the electricity yield and increasing throughput.
NIL Technology ApS is a nanotechnology company based in Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, with a branch in Gothenburg, Sweden. Established in 2006, the company specializes in the optical design, prototyping, and mass production of optical components. NIL Technology offers nanostructured masters for various replication technologies, such as nanoimprint, UV-replication, hot embossing, roll printing, and injection molding. Its product range includes diffractive optical elements, microlens arrays, beam splitters, optical diffusers, and waveguides for augmented and mixed reality applications. The company's solutions cater to diverse sectors, including biotechnology, renewable energy, consumer product packaging, and advanced imaging technologies. By focusing on optical applications for sensors, 3D displays, and smartphones, NIL Technology aims to enable innovative optical solutions for a variety of high-tech industries.
We build control hardware for quantum computers. Quantum computers will revolutionize the way we compute by embedding the laws of quantum mechanics in their fundamental building blocks (qubits). To get from the current proof-of-principle prototype quantum computers to earth-shattering computation power, many scientific and engineering challenges have to be solved. Our company has the mission to build the control hardware stacks that can manage the upcoming generations of quantum processors.
UniSieve Ltd develops and manufactures mechanically flexible molecular sieving membranes. The company’s technology enables a combination of various molecular sieves and polymeric membranes, yielding reliable separation solutions. It offers its solutions for chemical feedstock purification, biogas upgrading, sensing, space related applications, gas separation, and liquid separation. UniSieve Ltd is based in Zurich, Switzerland.
We build control hardware for quantum computers. Quantum computers will revolutionize the way we compute by embedding the laws of quantum mechanics in their fundamental building blocks (qubits). To get from the current proof-of-principle prototype quantum computers to earth-shattering computation power, many scientific and engineering challenges have to be solved. Our company has the mission to build the control hardware stacks that can manage the upcoming generations of quantum processors.
We build control hardware for quantum computers. Quantum computers will revolutionize the way we compute by embedding the laws of quantum mechanics in their fundamental building blocks (qubits). To get from the current proof-of-principle prototype quantum computers to earth-shattering computation power, many scientific and engineering challenges have to be solved. Our company has the mission to build the control hardware stacks that can manage the upcoming generations of quantum processors.
Separative is a startup bringing a break in the purification of molecules in organic chemistry and peptides.
e-peas SA specializes in the design and manufacture of energy autonomous systems for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Founded in 2014 and based in Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium, the company focuses on creating solutions that enable IoT nodes to harness energy from their environment, including sources such as solar, thermal, vibration, and radiofrequency. e-peas develops energy harvesting power management integrated circuits (PMICs) and microcontrollers that enhance the performance and efficiency of IoT devices by extending battery life or eliminating the need for battery replacements altogether. Their products serve various sectors, including home automation, industry, retail, smart metering, healthcare, mobility, security, and agriculture, contributing to smarter, more sustainable technology solutions.
SiriusXT Limited, incorporated in 2015 and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, specializes in the development and manufacture of a soft x-ray microscope known as the SXT system. This innovative benchtop system enables researchers to produce high-resolution images of biological samples in their own laboratories. Utilizing a vacuum-based laser-produced plasma soft x-ray light source, the SXT system facilitates soft x-ray tomography, akin to a CT scan for cells, which is essential for life scientists studying the 3D internal structures of cells in their natural, fully hydrated states. The SXT system is primarily marketed to researchers in disease research and drug discovery, including pharmaceutical companies, biotechnologists, and clinicians, helping them to better understand disease pathways, protein-drug interactions, and bio-engineering processes. As the first high-throughput, bench-top soft x-ray tomography system, it can produce detailed 3D tomographs of entire cells in minutes.
Developer of batteryless microcontrollers intended to convert one IoT device at a time to a battery-free ecosystem. The company's wireless microcontrollers are self-powered and battery-free which harvest energy from their surroundings making health information more accessible and easier to interpret by reducing the barrier between people and healthcare technology, enabling individuals to be more confident about their health and spend more time focusing on everything else.
SiriusXT Limited, incorporated in 2015 and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, specializes in the development and manufacture of a soft x-ray microscope known as the SXT system. This innovative benchtop system enables researchers to produce high-resolution images of biological samples in their own laboratories. Utilizing a vacuum-based laser-produced plasma soft x-ray light source, the SXT system facilitates soft x-ray tomography, akin to a CT scan for cells, which is essential for life scientists studying the 3D internal structures of cells in their natural, fully hydrated states. The SXT system is primarily marketed to researchers in disease research and drug discovery, including pharmaceutical companies, biotechnologists, and clinicians, helping them to better understand disease pathways, protein-drug interactions, and bio-engineering processes. As the first high-throughput, bench-top soft x-ray tomography system, it can produce detailed 3D tomographs of entire cells in minutes.
Aledia SA develops and manufactures light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The company offers microwire LED chips based on a 3D architecture using gallium-nitride-on-silicon microwires. It provides its products for general lighting, automotive, and display applications. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Grenoble, France with subsidiaries in Malacca, Malaysia; and Palo Alto, California.
sensiBel AS, founded in 2016 and located in Oslo, Norway, specializes in the development of ultra-high-sensitivity microphones utilizing optical micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) technology. The company focuses on creating microphones that offer optical ultra-low noise performance, enhancing voice control technology without sacrificing acoustic overload point and total harmonic distortion. This innovative approach enables superior speech recognition capabilities and high-quality audio capture, making it a valuable contributor to advancements in voice control applications.
Nanoker Research is a SME-company founded in 2011 with the aim to achieve the commercial exploitation of the research results generated in the European Integrated Project IP NANOKER “Structural ceramic nanocomposites for top-end functional applications” (515784. FP6-NMP). This project was focused on the development of several families of a new generation of nanostructured ceramic materials with potential application in different market sectors. Nanoker joined together professionals with more than 20 years of experience in the production and development of technical ceramics with entrepreneurs from academia with a deep knowledge on nanoceramics and nanocomposites. Nanoker Research, S.L. produces and commercializes high performance ceramic components based on advanced ceramics, nanoceramics and nanocomposites for industrial and biomedical applications. Nanoker Research, S.L. focuses its activity in the field of technical ceramics for industrial applications through the trademark Keratec Advanced Materials whereas produces and commercializes biomedical products through the company Bioker Research, S.L.
Nova Fabrica is a manufacturer and worldwide supplier of thin film process components, such as plasma monitoring and control systems, plasma generators and bias power supplies, magnetron sputtering devices, ion and plasma sources. The comprehensive product portfolio allows Nova Fabrica offering a complete package solution with appropriate integration support. Nova Fabrica's directly manufactured specialist products, such as FloTron™ process control systems, are distributed worldwide via a comprehensive sales network.