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Institute for Quantum Computing

The training base for the technical founders of every major Canadian quantum company.

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What we know

The Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo has spent 20 years producing the technical founders of every major Canadian quantum company. Xanadu, Nord Quantique, Photonic Inc, and evolutionQ all trace to this research base.

QuantumCore raised $10.7M spinning out of IQC to solve superconducting readout, a supply chain play for every modality.

Editorial note

The Millikelvin covers the Colorado quantum ecosystem from the inside. Foreign organisations on this site carry stub profiles only, restricted to publicly reported facts. We expand a profile when the org is part of an active Colorado story, not as deep-dive coverage of foreign ecosystems on their own terms.

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