ZuriQ raised USD 25.5 million in seed funding led by Quantonation, with Forward.one, Extantia, Firgun Ventures and investors from its previous round participating. The ETH Zurich spin-off will expand its team, research programme and chip fabrication as it scales trapped-ion quantum processors.
The company and ETH researchers have built a demonstrator containing nine individually controlled ions in a 3-by-3 array, using chips fabricated with Infineon. Its Penning micro-traps use a static magnetic field and support a natively two-dimensional layout. The funding targets larger arrays; hundreds of qubits remain a development goal rather than the demonstrated system's capacity.
