QDNL Participations is a company that focuses on the development of quantum-secured data communication solutions. Their project, Q-Bird, aims to create a quantum encryption technology that is both secure and scalable for the future of data security.

QDNL Participations

The QDNL Participations €15 million fund provides the bridge between the grantgiving phase of quantum research and the 'patient capital' phase of venture investment.

We provide impactful business and commercial support to transform potentially great technical ideas into obviously great investable companies, helping brilliant technical minds organise leading talent to bring their ideas into the world for the benefit of humanity.

At QDNL Participations, we have the honour of working with some of the most intriguing startups creating groundbreaking technologies poised to bring us closer to a quantum future. Today, we're introducing you to one of those companies: Q*BIRD B.V..

Co-founded in 2022 by Joshua A. Slater, PhD, Ingrid Romijn, and Remon Berrevoets, Q*Bird - a spinoff of QuTech - is going even further to secure valuable data by designing devices with the capability of providing quantum-secured data communications. 

👉 How does it work? Qbits - single particles of light–photons in the fragile state of quantum superposition - are sent between either end of a secure data connection. When the tech senses a disturbance in this fragile state, presumably by hackers trying to break the encryption, it will generate a new quantum key, impenetrable, even by other quantum computers. 

👉 Early in its spinout, Q*Bird secured a QDNL Participations SAFE note, allowing the three founders to bootstrap and set up the company while working on gaining funding from their initial customers.

On working with Q*Bird, our Managing Director Ton van 't Noordende says, "We've been working with the founding team since pre-incorporation and they've been making incredible strides. Their technology can already be seen in action as they're creating a quantum network in the Port of Rotterdam. Q*Bird’s Central Hub uses quantum entanglement to provide a secure and un-tappable quantum link between distant quantum information sources, as any outside interference will be immediately noticed. Their technology will be an essential building block for secure and distributed quantum computing systems, and enable the future quantum internet."

Read more about where Q*Bird started, where it's going, and the competition it faces along the way, here: https://lnkd.in/eiesRsup

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Thrilling news: QDNL Participations welcomes quantum computing pioneer, Chad Rigetti, as Venture Partner!

Rigetti is a proven founder, executive, and scientist who created his own company, Rigetti Computing, in 2013. Today, it’s publicly traded and backed by Y Combinator and Andreessen Horowitz. 

His achievements in developing quantum information technologies and taking them from lab to market make him well equipped to lead new investments, provide guidance to portfolio companies, and support the development of QDNL Participations and our strategy. All responsibilities which he’ll take on as partner. 

“There’s been tremendous progress in the development of quantum technologies over the past decade, but the quantum sector as a whole is still just getting going. I’m excited to help support brilliant founders and companies who are striving to build long-term category defining companies,” Rigetti said.

Welcome aboard, Chad; excited to help spinouts scale together🚀

👉 Read more, here: https://lnkd.in/eCSPuvh5

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FANTASTIC news for the European quantum ecosystem! NL-based QuiX Quantum and Swiss-based QMware AG announce an important collaboration ⬇ 
 
👉 QuiX Quantum is the European market leader for quantum computing hardware based on photonics.
 👉 QMware AG is a leading private quantum cloud company, aiming to build the first commercially valuable applications for hybrid quantum computing.

🇳🇱 🇨🇭 The two companies just announced they’ll be collaborating to develop the first fully integrated, hybrid quantum-classical platform in Enschede, the Netherlands, where QuiX Quantum’s headquarters are located. The hybrid architecture integrates high performance computing (HPC) infrastructure with native quantum computing technology onsite for the first time globally. 

🎯 The new data center is expected to be fully operational for commercial applications in August 2023.

Read all the details in the press release on Quix’ website: https://lnkd.in/eaKg_FPR 

Excitement all around.

Constantijn Van Oranje-Nassau, Special Envoy at Techleap: “I am excited to see European technology companies such as QMware and QuiX Quantum paving the way in this key innovation sector. The announcement of the first fully integrated Hybrid Quantum Computing Data Center in Enschede, the Netherlands, is a testament to the talent, expertise, and dedication of the European quantum community.” 

Our Managing Director Ton van 't Noordende adds: “The new data center in Enschede highlights the expertise and efforts being invested in the field of quantum technology in Europe. The shared memory structure between classical and quantum processing units represents a remarkable technical achievement that will enable further scaling of quantum computing for complex applications. QMware and QuiX Quantum are taking a pioneering role in enabling scalable quantum applications for industry and science, which is truly exciting to see.”

Congratulations to both teams!

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Economist Impact's “Commercialising Quantum Global” conference will debate how organisations should prepare for quantum TODAY. ⬇️

The two day agenda will cover the promise, the peril, the applications, the limitations, the hype and the realism of #quantumtechnology. 

Our Managing Director Ton van 't Noordende and Quantum Delta NL's Director for Ecosystem Development Freeke Heijman-te Paske will have a panel discussion about the following topic: 
➝ The journey from quantum start-up to scale-up: what are the key ingredients of a sustainable growth strategy?

🎤 Ton van 't Noordende: "Europe has an incredible heritage in technology and invention. Yet, when it comes to growing and scaling sustainable deeptech ventures, there's an undeniable need for us to elevate our game.

How can we improve our European trackrecord in growing and scaling sustainable deeptech ventures?

We're at a pivotal moment in time. 

I look forward to discussing this topic together with Freeke, starting with an in-depth view of the European quantum landscape. Following that, we'll share how QDNL Participations looks at investing in quantum technology, and what is needed to provide a de-risking bridge between technical founders and non-technical capital."

🎯 Join us on May 17th 2023.
➝  3:00 pm -3:15 pm BST.
➝  4:00 pm - 4:15 pm CET.

See you in London! 

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Join us for an in-depth analysis of the global quantum venture ecosystem with proprietary data at #Q2B23Paris today ⬇️

Our Managing Director Ton van 't Noordende and Quantum Delta NL's co-founder and Director for Ecosystem Development Freeke Heijman-te Paske will have a conversation about the current status of the VC landscape for deeptech startups in Europe 🌍. 

→ Where do we stand today?
→ What are the main obstacles?
→ Which actions can we take to ensure sustainable growth in quantum ventures? 

Join us for an in-depth analysis of the global quantum venture ecosystem with proprietary data at Q2B in Paris today, between 1:30 - 1:50 pm.

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What a WEEK last week! 🇫🇷 Quantum was high on the agenda during President Macron's visit to the Netherlands.

The president participated in a roundtable about the future of deeptech, together with our King Willem-Alexander, esteemed CEOs, academics, ministers and our MD Ton van 't Noordende. 

It was part of the 3 day state visit of President Macron to the Netherlands, which also included an official visit to Quantum.Amsterdam for a tour of the Quantum Gases & Quantum Information Lab.

Both reflect the intensive cooperation between the Netherlands and France in quantum. 🇫🇷 🇳🇱
 
💡 Did you know the VC funds with most quantum investments in Europe are housed in France and the Netherlands? They're Quantonation with 20 quantum investments, BPI France with 6 and our own QDNL Participations with 4.

Our MD Ton van 't Noordende:
“It was truly an honour and privilege to participate in the roundtable with these incredible people. As an investor in quantum companies, a personal highlight for me was the participation of scale-ups Qblox, QuiX Quantum, Single Quantum and PASQAL. Their passion and ingenuity are vital in driving progress.”

🇪🇺 We’re at a pivotal moment in Europe's deep tech leadership journey and are excited to see that initiatives like these help strengthen EU’s leadership in quantum technology. Our fund is committed to supporting a level playing field for deep tech startups and thereby pave the way for sustainable and responsible developments that benefit future generations.

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Monday-morning read: We're excited that QDNL Participations and Infinity QD have been featured on Science|Business! 🗞️

The article highlights our €15 million venture fund as well as Infinity QD, the free, on-call support programme set up to complement QDNL Participations. 
It reflects the experiences of Robert-Jan Smits, president of Eindhoven University of Technology, Kees Eijkel, director of business development at QuTech, and Ton van 't Noordende, our fund’s managing director.

Enjoy the read!

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We’d like to welcome a new investor into the deeptech and quantum technology space: NATO Innovation Fund (NIF)!  

Together, NATO allies are making at least €1 billion available for the NIF, which has a term of 15 years. Last year, the alliance mentioned the multinational fund is meant to bring together governments, the private sector and academia, in order to bolster NATO’s technological edge. The fund will be officially launched during the NATO summit in Vilnius in July this year.

This week, NATO also announced it's establishing the deep-tech fund in the Netherlands after the launch in July. 

We’re excited that this fund will further increase the possibility for innovative European start-ups to gain access to capital and look forward to working together with NIF in the future!

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Ready for Inside Quantum Technology! Our MD Ton van 't Noordende will moderate a panel on VCs in the Quantum Sector tomorrow;

🕙 Wednesday at 10:00 CET - Panel: VCs in the Quantum Sector.
🎤 Together with Olivier Tonneau, Partner at Quantonation.

IQT The Hague is the 8th global conference and exhibition in the Inside Quantum Technology series, co-organized by our ecosystem partners Quantum Delta NL, Quantum Internet Alliance (QIA) and QuTech. See you there!

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Incredibly proud to announce our investment in QuantWare!

🚀 Delft-based company QuantWare, which is the leading provider of large-scale superconducting quantum processors, has announced a €6 million Seed Round. Investors are FORWARD.one, QDNL Participations and Graduate Entrepreneur.

Matthijs Rijlaarsdam, CEO of QuantWare:
"QDNL Participations played the essential role of being a true partner in this round. With their advice, network, and speed, they provided us with the support we needed to bring together this great consortium. I look forward to changing the quantum computing landscape together in the coming years!"

👉 What will the funds be used for?
The company will use the funding to scale its team to support the production and development of its new 64 qubit processor ‘Tenor’.

👉 The device provides more than twice the number of qubits compared to its previous largest QPU, while at a 10x lower price point than competing solutions. This opens the door to quantum processors with thousands of qubits.

👉 QuantWare’s aim is to become the ‘Intel of quantum computing’ by providing easy-to-use, increasingly powerful and affordable quantum processors to organisations across the world.

Our Managing Director Ton van 't Noordende, said:
“We’re incredibly excited to back Matthijs, Alessandro and the team as they continue to develop and deliver state of the art Quantum Processor Units. They’re well on their way to deliver quantum advantage to end users and perfectly positioned to serve both R&D and commercial markets in the future.”

📢 Although our fund launched last week, we've already been making deals which will be announced in due course. This is our first big announcement, more will follow soon!

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https://lnkd.in/ecryQASg

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