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Away from PreSeed Now, quantum technologies is a field I spend a lot of time working in. So it’s always good to meet a founder from the growing UK quantum sector.

Quantum computing isn’t just about the big companies like IBM building full-stack computers. There’s a whole ecosystem of businesses developing hardware and software to serve a compelling emerging market.

One such startup is Qoro. Find out about them below.

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Qoro Quantum is building an easier path for working with quantum computers

Quantum computing is at an interesting stage in its development.

Progress in techniques like quantum error correction are bringing forward the timeline for wide-scale commercial deployment of quantum computers. Meanwhile, Google has declared that ‘Q Day’, the day a quantum computer is capable of rendering conventional encryption useless, is as close as three years away…

…as if the world’s CISOs didn’t have enough to worry about with Anthropic’s Mythos model.

In the meantime, the intersection of classical computing and quantum computing is being explored by some as a way of bringing together the best of both worlds.

IBM recently published reference architecture for quantum-centric supercomputing, showing how quantum computing-processors can supercharge classical supercomputers. NVIDIA has already been exploring quantum-enhanced AI supercomputing.

It’s this busy and fast-moving space that Qoro Quantum is entering.

The London-based startup is building what it describes as “the infrastructure glue for heterogeneous computing networks.”

“Using a quantum computer itself is notoriously difficult, but when you want to start integrating it into your classical workflows for things like material science and optimisation for business use cases and so on, it becomes very, very difficult. People get stuck in this complexity. They get swamped by decisions of which bits of software to use, how to optimise them. As a result, it's holding back quantum computing adoption,” says co-founder and CEO Dan Holme.

Qoro is initially targeting the early-adopter enterprise and high-performance computing (HPC) markets, where teams of researchers are looking to quantum computers to solve difficult problems that would be impractical to solve with classical machines.

“If an enterprise or HPC today wants to adopt quantum computing, going beyond the simple tests of running algorithms on a remote machine, if they actually want to create something that's meaningful for the business, they need to start thinking about the infrastructure layer,” Holme says.

“In a classical data centre, there would be things like application aware load balancers, the network, the security, the databases. There's a whole ecosystem of tools that you need which just don't exist for quantum computing. An engineer or a researcher in an enterprise would need to develop something that's reliable and assured for them to use quantum computers at scale.”

Realising this is an increasingly widespread problem, Qoro has developed software to take pain out of working with today’s quantum computers.

Holme explains how the software allows users to define a problem and have Qoro decide how it’s handled, whether by a physical quantum computer the customer has access to or in the cloud, or by quantum software simulation.

“Think of it like a very like a highly technical, advanced load balancer for quantum computing,” Holme says.

“This flow allows users to just pick a problem, fit it to their business, choose how they want to run it, and then the rest is taken care of.”

The story so far

Holme has a long career history of working in the classical computing world, which took him to a senior role in the sales team at Cisco. Developing an interest in quantum computing, he took on a role as a quantum technologies specialist at the company.

It was also at Cisco where he met his Qoro co-founder, Stephen DiAdamo, a research scientist working with quantum technologies.

Spotting a gap in the market that fit their sweet spot of interests and expertise, they established Qoro in 2024.

The startup’s platform is now up and running with trial users. They’ve also been running funded pilot programmes, including one with a company in the energy sector that is using quantum computing to solve complex problems.

More pilots are on the roadmap, including with high-performance computing companies.

With the UK government making a big push to invest in quantum technologies, Holme wants to position Qoro as a key piece of infrastructure to power the growth of the sector.

“Being a core part of driving forward quantum computing the UK is critical for me. Not only are we a unique company, we're also based in the UK, and therefore well placed to support the additional investments which are going into quantum computing and quantum networking.”

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