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January 24, 2023

PASQAL lands €100m after 'world-first' real-life quantum computer use

The startup has already signed up a list of big-name corporate clients who are getting ready for the quantum switch


Tim Smith

4 min read

PASQAL's quantum computer

When Georges Reymond was a schoolboy, he couldn’t have imagined that, decades later, he’d be building a company with the very same scientist whose work had made him fall in love with quantum physics. 

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Georges Reymond (centre) with members of the PASQAL team
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Tim Smith

Tim Smith was news editor at Sifted. He covered deeptech and AI, and produced Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast . Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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