{"id":229092,"date":"2025-09-15T16:01:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T16:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/229092\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:01:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T16:01:25","slug":"german-finnish-quantum-computing-firm-worth-a-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/229092\/","title":{"rendered":"German-Finnish Quantum-Computing Firm Worth a Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-taxonomies\">\n Startup\n <\/p>\n<p>IQM Quantum Computer has cracked the USD one billion valuation mark and become a unicorn, according to business newspaper Handelsblatt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-date\">\nSep 15, 2025 <\/p>\n<p>IQM crossed the symbolically important threshold after a successful USD 320 million series B funding round. It was the largest deal ever for a quantum computing start-up in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis funding round will fuel our company growth, with an accelerated tech roadmap towards error corrected systems from thousand to million qubits,\u201d said\u00a0IQM co-founder and Co-CEO Jan Goetz on the company website. \u201cWe also focus on strong business expansion in the US and other global markets based on our attractive on-premises offerings for quantum computers and the recently announced upgrade of our cloud offering.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>IQM has built over 30 quantum computers and filed more than 300 quantum computing patent applications. It has its headquarters in Espoo, Finland and the southern German city of Munich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Startup IQM Quantum Computer has cracked the USD one billion valuation mark and become a unicorn, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":229093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[745,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-229092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-computing","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115209154480512916","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}