Quint Computing Secures €9.1 Million in Record First Funding Round for German Quantum Computing to Enable the Commercial Scaling of Quantum Computing

Quint Computing, building fault-tolerant quantum computers with efficiency and speed to unlock industrial impact, led by Prof. Christopher Eichler, Prof. Michael J. Hartmann, and Dr. Jona Stinner, has secured €9.1 million in Germany's largest-ever initial funding round for a quantum computing company. Quint has further been awarded a €2.2 million Pathfinder grant by the European Innovation Council (EIC), reaching a position among the top 0.1% of all applicants. The round was led by Vsquared with participation from Quantonation, Nucleus Capital, Faber, Vanagon Ventures and ZOHO.VC, alongside established industry experts including Prof. Mikko Möttönen, founder of IQM and QMill. The funding will support the expansion of Quint's team, accelerate its technology development, and advance its first industrial deployment projects.

Founded in October 2025 by quantum physicists Prof. Michael Hartmann and Prof. Christopher Eichler, alongside economist Dr. Jona Stinner, Quint emerged from research at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and is part of the Munich Quantum Valley ecosystem. Its advisory board includes experts from the Max Planck Institute, Infineon Technologies, and Google Quantum AI.

Despite the potential to solve complex problems beyond the reach of conventional supercomputers, quantum computing remains constrained by high error rates, which increase hardware requirements, costs, and computational complexity.

Quint addresses this challenge through a patented superconducting quantum chip architecture that reduces errors directly at the hardware level, rather than relying primarily on complex correction algorithms. Once fully implemented, the technology is expected to reduce complexity, hardware overhead, and energy consumption by up to 100 times while maintaining high computational speed.

Prof. Christopher Eichler, Co-Founder and CEO of Quint Computing, says: "The race to build commercially viable quantum computers is gaining momentum. Quint has a clear roadmap to accelerate the development of the required technology. Our unique processor architecture reduces complexity while maintaining high clock speed. The result is more computing power, lower operational costs and a shorter path to commercialization."

Prof. Michael Hartmann, Co-Founder and CTO of Quint Computing, adds: "Beyond improving error correction efficiency, we maintain high computational speed to enable fault-tolerant quantum solutions for a broad range of applications, from chemicals and pharmaceuticals to logistics and manufacturing."

Dr. Michael Jobst, Investment Partner at Vsquared, says: “While major industry players including Google, AWS, Microsoft and IBM are investing heavily and the industry has made significant progress in developing quantum computers, achieving fault tolerance at scale remains the decisive challenge. Quint is tackling exactly this central bottleneck and therefore enabling commercial scalability. The team behind this is what makes this breakthrough possible. Seeing two of Europe’s leading quantum scientists turn academic excellence into industrial innovation to create economic impact is exactly the ambition Europe needs.”

Fault-tolerant quantum computers could transform industries where conventional computing reaches its limits. In pharmaceutical research, they could simulate complex molecular interactions, accelerate drug development, and reduce costly experimental trials. Quint's founders have already explored such applications through partnerships with Bosch, BASF, and Boehringer Ingelheim. Industry estimates suggest quantum computing could generate up to USD 2.7 trillion in economic value by 2035, provided fault-tolerant systems can be successfully developed and scaled.

The new funding will support Quint's research and engineering expansion, advance its quantum processor roadmap, and accelerate initial industrial deployment projects. The company plans to grow its team to around 40 people by 2028, recruiting across quantum chip design, fabrication, error correction, and applications.