The Global Quantum Industry Group brings together hardware buyers, suppliers, and capital across the quantum computing ecosystem. Members hold one seat per company, at C-level.
The founding cohort of the Global Quantum Industry Group — the companies and investors that shaped the council from day one.
Applied Materials is the leader in materials engineering solutions that are at the foundation of virtually every new semiconductor and advanced display in the world. The solutions it creates are essential to advancing AI and accelerating the commercialization of next-generation chips.
Ground State Ventures operates an $88 million global fund backing high-potential quantum technology startups at their earliest stages. Across quantum computing, sensing, communications and infrastructure, the fund invests in the best teams working at the cutting edge of what's possible to build the next generation of era-defining technology businesses.
BTQ Technologies is a vertically integrated quantum technology company accelerating the transition from classical networks to the quantum internet. Its full-stack platform spans quantum computing hardware, middleware, and post-quantum security, targeting high-stakes sectors including finance, telecommunications, logistics, life sciences, and defense.
55 North is the world's largest dedicated quantum technology venture capital fund, headquartered in Copenhagen and backed by Denmark's EIFO and Novo Holdings. It invests stage-agnostically from Seed to Series B across quantum computing, sensing, and communications, with a portfolio including IQM, Kiutra, and QMatter.
Rigetti is a pioneer in full-stack quantum computing. Rigetti quantum computers are based on superconducting qubits, which are widely believed to be the leading qubit modality given their maturity, clear path to scaling, and fast gate speeds. Rigetti quantum computing systems achieve gate speeds of 50–70 nanoseconds, which is about 10,000 times faster than trapped-ion systems and 100× faster than neutral-atom systems.
Companies across hardware, software, foundry, and capital advancing the quantum infrastructure ecosystem.
Bluefors is the world leader in manufacturing cryogenic measurement systems, cryocoolers, and cryogenic product lines for quantum technology. It is the preferred choice for ultra-low-temperature requirements at universities, research institutes, and corporations globally.
Qblox operates at the frontier of the quantum revolution, supporting academic laboratories and industrial companies worldwide. This is made possible by our passionate, dynamic and diverse team. With a dedicated team of scientists, engineers and developers we are pushing quantum technology to support scientists and institutions worldwide with our scalable and low-latency qubit control equipment.
Nu Quantum is the category creator and leader in distributed quantum computing technology. Its Entanglement Fabric approach is a modular, interoperable networking layer that interconnects quantum processors into a more powerful distributed quantum computer. Through its technological advances and collaboration with industry partners, Nu Quantum is accelerating the path to fault tolerance to unlock breakthroughs and transform industries worldwide.
Paragraf is a UK-based deep-tech company pioneering the development and commercialisation of graphene-based electronic technologies, enabling new generations of high-performance electronic devices. Its expertise spans graphene materials, semiconductor manufacturing and advanced electronics, with applications across quantum technology, defence, aerospace, space, communications and sensing.
kiutra makes cryogenics accessible, delivering fast, easy access to kelvin and millikelvin temperatures for quantum systems. Its helium-3-free systems use continuous Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigeration (cADR) — the only commercially available alternative to helium-3-based dilution refrigeration — removing a major supply risk for scaling quantum technology.
QuantrolOx is a quantum computing automation company spun out from the University of Oxford. Its control software automates the tuning, calibration, and characterisation of quantum processors — cutting bring-up times by more than 100× and letting a single expert manage multiple quantum computers.
Scope is a specialist talent partner for the deep-tech companies building what comes next. Its focus is quantum — hardware engineers, quantum scientists, control systems specialists, and algorithm developers — working across the full stack from qubit design to QEC and quantum software toolchains. That specificity is why Scope surfaces specialist candidates that generalist recruiters never find. Services: Deep Tech Recruitment and Talent Services.
AQSolotl Pte Ltd is a quantum computing technology company committed to accelerating practical quantum computing. We develop and deliver advanced hardware controllers that bridge classical computing with quantum processors, enabling scalable, cost-effective and high-performance qubit control. Our mission is to empower industry innovators to integrate quantum capabilities into real-world applications.
Orange Quantum Systems (OrangeQS) is a leading provider of advanced infrastructure for testing quantum chips. Headquartered in Delft, the company delivers high-performance systems that enable reliable, scalable, and efficient characterization of qubits and other relevant elements on a quantum chip. With its MAX and FLEX platforms, OrangeQS supports both the global quantum industry and the R&D community, while also contributing to open-source innovation through the OrangeQS Juice operating system.
RexCrux, Inc. develops structural intelligence software for scientific computing. Its quantum program, QPhase™, addresses a practical challenge: optimizing quantum circuits for different computing environments while providing evidence that the transformations preserve intended behavior.
AEM Afore, part of AEM Holdings Ltd., develops advanced wafer-level test and probing solutions for quantum technologies and next-generation semiconductors. Headquartered in Finland, AEM Afore specialises in cryogenic wafer probing, precision positioning, and highly customisable probing configurations for electrical, RF, photonic, and hybrid quantum device characterisation. The company's platforms support a wide range of probe card technologies and customer-specific probe card integration, enabling flexible test set-ups from fundamental research to process development and pilot production. AEM Afore collaborates with Bluefors on the Cryogenic Wafer Prober (CWP) platform, providing researchers and technology developers with scalable wafer-level testing capabilities at cryogenic temperatures. Combined with AEM's global engineering, manufacturing, and support network, AEM Afore helps accelerate the transition of quantum innovations from the laboratory to commercial deployment.
Groove Quantum is a quantum technology company developing scalable quantum computing hardware based on semiconductor spin qubits, leveraging established chip-manufacturing techniques to advance toward large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum systems.
Firgun Ventures is a $250M VC firm, and the first to focus on investments in Series A/B Quantum scale-ups. The team is based in London, with a global investment mandate.
JIJ develops software and algorithms for complex optimization across classical and quantum computing. Its technology enables organizations to model optimization problems, run them across classical and quantum backends, and benchmark results across different computational approaches. Working with industry and research partners, JIJ develops and evaluates emerging quantum methods for optimization, helping translate advances in quantum computing into practical applications.
Anchored In is an innovation consultancy in the quantum and deep tech sector, focusing on strategy advice, sector assessment, and entrepreneurship training. We work with technology companies, investors, and research institutions to turn deep tech advances into commercial reality, helping to assess where technology adds genuine value, training teams to develop strong business cases for investment, and connecting with key stakeholders, including supply chains, customers, investors, and policymakers, to foster development. For over ten years, we've played an influential role in shaping UK quantum policy through sector reports, carried out market assessments and readiness analyses for different local regions, and delivered investment training across multiple sectors — work that is widely recognised and well established in the field. At GQIG 2026, we'd like to talk to quantum teams facing exactly that challenge: turning strong science into a business case that investors and customers can act on.
Headquartered in Barcelona, Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech is a quantum computing company working to accelerate the arrival of useful quantum computers through the development of its analog chips based on fluxonium qubits.
QuantaMap develops metrology and diagnostic instruments for the quantum hardware industry, brought together in a single process control platform. The company's NAUTILUS system simultaneously maps topography, heat dissipation, current flow and magnetic response inside quantum devices at the nanoscale. This technology, based on a scanning nanoSQUID, uncovers defects that no other tool can resolve.
Qoro Quantum builds an execution layer that unifies HPC, cloud, and quantum processors into a single composable pipeline. Its application-, algorithm-, network-, and hardware-aware software lets users write an algorithm once and have it turned into an optimised execution plan that runs across heterogeneous quantum and classical resources.
Diraq builds quantum computers based on modified silicon transistors — the technology best suited to achieving utility scale. Its mission is to become the global leader in utility-scale quantum computing, with millions of qubits on a single silicon chip manufactured in existing semiconductor foundries. Headquartered in Sydney, Diraq is expanding across the US.
Founded in 2021 as a technology spin-out from the University of Chicago, memQ enables the scalable implementation of quantum computing through standards-based connectivity across optical connections between quantum computers anywhere. Its xQNA portfolio provides secure connectivity and control across local, campus, metro, and wide-area quantum compute resources with high fidelity and low loss, regardless of the qubit structures employed.
Zero Point Cryogenics (ZPC) is one of only six companies worldwide that provide the foundational millikelvin environments required for quantum technologies. ZPC designs innovative and reliable cryostats that bridge the gap between custom laboratory research and scalable, commercial-grade cryogenic infrastructure. Founded in Dr. John P. Davis' low-temperature physics lab at the University of Alberta, ZPC recently patented and launched the Phase Separation Refrigerator (PSR) — the first fundamentally new form of ultra-low cooling in 60 years.
Headquartered in Israel, QuamCore is pioneering a transformative approach to quantum scalability, aiming to deliver one million qubits within a single cryostat by 2030. Its engineering-first approach targets systems that are 1,000× smaller, 1,000× more cost-effective, and 600× more power-efficient than current technology.
TNO (Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research) is the Dutch national research and technology organisation. A co-founder of the QuTech quantum research centre, TNO works across semiconductors and quantum technologies — from EUV lithography to quantum hardware — and contributes to national and European quantum roadmaps.
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