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July 9, 2019

Europe’s VCs finally leap into quantum

Finland's IQM raises €11.45m in one of the rare VC investments into quantum in Europe.


Maija Palmer

3 min read

Finnish startup IQM, which is developing quantum computing hardware, has raised an €11.45m seed round from a group of investors including Maki.vc, MIG Funds, OpenOcean, Tesi (the Finnish industrial investment fund), and Vito Ventures.

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