Quantum Art raises $140M to scale quantum computing with a unique 'multicore' architecture

TLDR

• Quantum Art extended its Series A to $140M to scale its trapped-ion “Perspective” multicore quantum system beyond 1,000 qubits.

Key Facts

• The round extends an original $100M raise from December; new investors include Hudson Bay Capital, Poalim Equity, and LIP Ventures.
• Quantum Art’s Perspective system uses lasers to split a chain of ions into reconfigurable cores, letting any qubit interact with any other.
• The multicore approach aims to increase per-qubit throughput and scale past the ~1,000-ion ceiling that limits conventional trapped-ion designs.
• The company is launching a Quantum-as-a-Service cloud platform for enterprises and researchers to test algorithms on simulators and hardware.

Why It Matters

• Scaling trapped-ion systems past ~1,000 qubits has been an industry-wide bottleneck; Perspective’s reconfigurable architecture directly targets that limit.
• The QaaS platform gives external teams early access to the hardware before the 1,000-qubit system is fully deployed.

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE · 2026-04-27 · Read the original