Quint Computing, a quantum computing start-up spun out of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, has raised €9.1m (about $10.2m) in its first funding round. The company announced the round on 3 November 2026 and said it was the largest initial round ever raised by a German quantum computing company.
Vsquared Ventures led the round. Quantonation, Nucleus Capital, Faber, Vanagon Ventures and ZOHO.VC also invested, along with Mikko Möttönen, the founder of Finnish quantum companies IQM and QMill. The valuation was not disclosed.
Separately, Quint has won a €2.2m grant from the European Innovation Council's Pathfinder programme.
“The result is more computing power, lower operational costs and a shorter path to commercialization.”Prof. Christopher Eichler, co-founder and CEO, Quint Computing
What Quint is building
Quint is designing a superconducting quantum processor with a patented chip architecture that suppresses errors at the hardware level. Errors are one of the main obstacles to building useful quantum computers, and most current approaches correct them by adding many extra qubits.
The company says that, once fully implemented, its design should cut complexity, hardware overhead and energy use by a factor of 100 while keeping clock speeds high. Chief executive Christopher Eichler said the architecture reduces complexity while maintaining high clock speed.
Dr Michael Jobst, an investment partner at Vsquared, said achieving fault tolerance at scale remains the decisive challenge in the field and that Quint is tackling that bottleneck directly.
Hartmann said the design keeps computational speed high while improving how efficiently errors are corrected, with the aim of making fault-tolerant quantum systems for chemicals, pharmaceuticals, logistics and manufacturing. The company cited a McKinsey estimate that quantum computing could create up to $2.7 trillion in economic value by 2035.
The founders
Quint was founded in October 2025 by two quantum physicists, Professor Christopher Eichler, the chief executive, and Professor Michael Hartmann, the chief technology officer, together with economist Dr Jona Stinner, who handles finance and operations. The company is part of the Munich Quantum Valley network.
Its advisory board includes Professor Florian Marquardt of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, former Infineon chief executive Reinhard Ploss and Markus Hoffmann, who previously worked at Google Quantum AI.
The founders have explored possible uses with Bosch, BASF and Boehringer Ingelheim, according to the company. It is aiming at pharmaceuticals, chemicals, logistics and manufacturing but has not named any customers.
What the money is for
Quint plans to grow to about 40 people by 2028, hiring in chip design, fabrication, error correction and applications. It will also use the money to advance its processor roadmap and work towards its first industrial deployments.
Bavaria's science minister, Markus Blume, welcomed the round in a statement published by Munich Quantum Valley, calling the state a quantum pioneer.
Quint described the EIC Pathfinder award as placing it among the top 0.1% of applicants. Jobst said seeing two of Europe's leading quantum scientists turn academic research into industrial products was the kind of ambition Europe needs.
Company website: quint-computing.com