This year, 8 domestic quantum computing companies have completed financing | Jiazi Guangnian

Quantum computing ushered in the spring of investment.

Author | Liu Jingfeng

A very cutting -edge science and technology field is being popular with many investment institutions.

Today, quantum computing start-up technology quantitative technology announced the completion of the Pre-B round financing with a total amount of nearly 100 million yuan. High -tech investment and other follow -up.

Founded in 2018, its main business includes practical superconducting chip quantum computers, desktop nucleic magnetic resonance quantum computers, universal quantum computing cloud platforms and application software. Prior to this, quantitative technology had completed the angel round, A round and A+round financing in 2018, 2020 and 2021.

Since last year, quantum computing has gradually been sought after by investment institutions. Globally, in 2021, the total annual financing of this field was nearly 3.2 billion US dollars, which was more than three times that of the annual financing scale of 2020. Among them, China's quantum computing companies have completed a total of 11.28 million US dollars of financing. This year, this momentum is still maintained. In the incomplete statistics of Jiaziguangnian, as of now, eight domestic quantum computing companies have completed financing. Among them, there are 5 financing amounts of 100 million yuan and above, including quantitative technology, Turing quantum, Huayi quantum, unlimited technology, and origin quantum. There are only a dozen startups in the field of quantum computing.

From the perspective of the founder and CEO Xiang Jingen of quantitative technology, behind this performance is quantum computing is accelerating from the laboratory to the industry. It has attracted many investment institutions to participate in the early stage of industrialization. "

Of course, the field of fragrant fragrance is indispensable. At present, technology giants such as Baidu, Ali, Tencent, and Huawei have also set up quantum computing related research departments or business lines. In August this year, Baidu also released a superconducting quantum computer.

Quantum computing began to usher in the spring of investment.

1. Superconductive quantum computers are sought after by capital

According to the technical route, there are roughly three mainstream directions of quantum computers: superconducting chip quantum computers, ion trap quantum computers and optical quantum computers.

Among the eight companies that have completed a new round of financing this year, quantitative technology and source quantum have followed the route of superconducting chip quantum computers.

The quantum technology direction of the superconducting chip quantum technology in early 2020 has now completed the development of the prototype, super -guide quantum chip, and radio frequency measurement and control system of practical superconducting chip quantum computers. In addition, quantitative technology has also completed the development of quantum cloud platforms, quantum operating systems and application software, and promotes independent and controllable full -chain integration strategies. It is worth mentioning that the EDA software of the quantum chip independently developed by quantum rotation is also about to be released. Through this EDA software, if the user enters the parameters in the visual interface, you can modify and automate the desired chip layout.

Quantitative technology superconducting chip quantum computer integration solution

The quantum computing "unicorn" origin has taken the two technical routes of superconductance and semiconductor. At present, domestic engineering superconducting chip quantum computers "origin". In addition, it also has its own quantum computing cloud platform The quantum computer control system, quantum computer operating system and other products have gradually established their own technical advantages.

This also reflects that superconducting chip quantum technology is very popular with enterprises and capital. In fact, due to the more stable quantum technology of superconducting chip, the quantum bits are easier to expand, and at the same time, it can also be replicated. It has become one of the most promising lines in the current quantum computing field.

Ion trap is also one of the quantum computing technical directions that have attracted much attention. The Huayi quantum founded by Professor Duan Luming, the executive director of the Tsinghua University Quantum Information Center, is a startup in the field. It announced in April this year that it had completed an angel round financing of over 100 million yuan. The capital behind it includes first -line institutions such as Gao Rong and Sequoia. Its financing direction after financing is to manufacture 100 to 200 quantum -bit -scale ion trap computers and development corresponding quantum computing cloud platforms.

Light quantum computing is also a direction that is favored by capital. In the first half of this year, Turing quantum and Big quantum completed a new round of financing.

Turing quantum is known as the first domestic optical quantum computing company. It focuses on the layout of optical quantum chips, dedicated optical quantum computers, optical quantum measurement and control systems, optical quantum EDA software and quantum cloud platform. 1, and three -dimensional optical quantum chip, ultra -high -speed programming optical quantum chip, etc.

Big quantum focuses on "related quantum computing and optical quantum computing". At present, Boson quantum is focusing on the research and development and industrial implementation of scalable, programmable optical quantum computing platforms, establish upstream and downstream ecological chains and industrial chains, and continuously improve the quantum computing to various issues such as AI, big data, enterprise uniforms and other issues. Calculate the acceleration application.

These three technical routes and 8 financing have roughly portrayed the popularity of domestic quantum computing this year, and will also be the direction of domestic quantum computing.

2. Education, finance, and medical care are the focus of commercial exploration

In the case of cautious capital, why can we be seen by investors?

In addition to the heat of the industry itself, there is also an important reason, that is, the ability of commercialization. Today, with the increasingly urgent demand for computing power in the business world, the industrialization of the quantum computing track has formed a certain trend. Xiang Jingen, the founder and CEO of quantitative technology, told Jia Ziguang that although the focus of the current industry discussion is still the development of quantum computing technology, but the ability of commercialization will become increasingly important. The value is reflected by commercial applications. "In addition, as the investment market is cold, the commercialization ability also tests the ability of quantum computing to start the hematopoietic capacity.

In terms of commercialization, Xiang Jingen's thinking is that the first step focuses on the quantum computing education market.

Therefore, the first product of quantum technology is desktop -type quantum computers. "To cultivate talents, it is definitely inseparable from the education of quantum computing." Xiang Jingen said that the current education field is the first commercialization of the company. The direction is also the largest sector of the company's revenue. "We expect that in the next two or three years, it should account for at least half of the cash flow." Next, the company also plans to release a new generation of programmable scientific research teaching quantum computers at the same time. At the same time, at the same time Provide a full set of solutions equipped with a supporting cours for the teaching.

After education, the second step is the scientific research instrument market. After entering the direction of superconductant quantum technology in early 2020, the quantitative technology has completed the development of the prototype, super -guide quantum chip and radio frequency measurement system for practical superconducting chip quantum computers. Xiang Jingen believes that for the scientific research market, quantum computers may be the first to be accepted.

Then, the third step is to really apply quantum computers in business scenarios. According to Xiang Jingen, it is difficult to achieve such applications in the short term. "I expect that it is definitely not realistic within three years."

To achieve commercialization of quantum computing, there are two main conditions: the first is that the computing power must reach a certain threshold, and this threshold has two important indicators. Software and algorithms. Only these two conditions can really be applied.

At present, quantitative technology has cooperated with a number of large and medium -sized enterprises in the fields of biomedicine, fintech, and artificial intelligence. Customers include Huada Gene, Huaxia Bank, Yuan Rong Qixing, etc.

According to Jiaziguangnian, in addition to quantity technology, the origin quantum has also landed in the fields and other fields. According to incomplete statistics, more than 25 banks and financial institutions around the world have cooperated with quantum computing companies.

Despite the end of the steps, Xiang Jingen believes that these are only commercialized explorations, because this type of cooperation is still mainly based on technical reserves, and the scientific research attributes are relatively large, and the results cannot be directly applied to the production system.

Even some insiders believe that there are many foams in the field of quantum computing. For example, Pan Jianwei, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, executive vice president of the University of Science and Technology, and a world -renowned quantum information expert, recently stated at the relevant meeting that with the appearance of quantum computing heat, some speculation concepts and swarming conditions also appeared in China. "Especially for the application of quantum computing, some more than reality and unrealistic publicity have caused certain misleading public and investors."

Yu Dapeng, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the dean of the Shenzhen Institute of International Quantum, and the Chair Professor of Southern University of Science and Technology, also shouted, "It is individuals who do more such things like quantum, but there are not many core technologies and their own competitiveness. See. "Therefore, calmness is equally important under the quantum computing.

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