- France
- Private company
- Paris, France
- EU projects: computing and simulation 5, sensing 1 (some areas are keyword suggestions pending review)
Fact sheet
- Type
- Company ROR, retrieved 21 October 2026
- Legal form
- SAS, société par actions simplifiée API Recherche d'entreprises (Sirene, RNE, INPI accounts), retrieved 22 October 2026
- Country and city
- France CORDIS (portal record), retrieved 18 October 2026Paris API Recherche d'entreprises (Sirene, RNE, INPI accounts), retrieved 22 October 2026
- Founded
- 2020 Wikidata, retrieved 21 October 2026
- Register status
- Active API Recherche d'entreprises (Sirene, RNE, INPI accounts), retrieved 22 October 2026
- Employees
- 100 to 199 employees (as of 2024) API Recherche d'entreprises (Sirene, RNE, INPI accounts), retrieved 22 October 2026
- Revenue and capital
- Revenue EUR 0 (as of 2020; turnover (chiffre d'affaires) of the published accounts) API Recherche d'entreprises (Sirene, RNE, INPI accounts), retrieved 22 October 2026
- Public investment
- Equity investment by the EIC Fund under the EIC STEP Scale Up scheme (as of 2026-04-27; Selected for an investment decision, subject to due diligence) European Innovation Council and the EIC Fund, retrieved 21 October 2026
- Identifiers
- ROR 05qrz8r95 ROR, retrieved 21 October 2026Wikidata Q111452775 Wikidata, retrieved 21 October 2026OpenCorporates fr/881729156 (company sources) Wikidata, retrieved 30 October 2026SIREN 881729156 (stated in Wikidata (P1616), the OpenCorporates ID in Wikidata) API Recherche d'entreprises (Sirene, RNE, INPI accounts), retrieved 22 October 2026
- Patents
- 48 quantum patent families (applicant "ALICE & BOB") EPO Open Patent Services, retrieved 22 October 2026
- EU and national projects
- 8 projects in this catalogue CORDIS, Funding & Tenders Portal, national funders
Company register (OpenCorporates)
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Organisation profile
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Identity
Logo (top of the page): CBathka, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
EU projects and funding
6 EU-funded quantum projects in CORDIS name this organisation as a participant (start years 2022 to 2026).
Net EU contribution to this organisation: EUR 3,736,669. The sum of its own net EU contribution in each of these projects, as CORDIS records it per participant.
Projects by technology pillar
- Quantum computing and simulation: 3
- Enabling technologies and supply chain: 2
- Quantum sensing and metrology: 1
Follow the money: all awards by programme and country
Source: CORDIS (European Commission), snapshot retrieved 2026-10-16, reused under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU on the reuse of Commission documents; stored 2 November 2026.
Publications and preprints
OpenAlex lists 74 works for this institution (Alice & Bob (France)), 69 of them about quantum technologies.
Source: OpenAlex (CC0), retrieved 20 October 2026.
Preprint radar
1 quantum preprint on arXiv in the last 30 days names this organisation among its institutions.
Source: arXiv quant-ph listings with OpenAlex institutions (metadata CC0), stored 2 November 2026.
Funding rounds and lab-to-market journey
- First EU-funded quantum project
- 2022-01-01: CatQubit
- First EIC Accelerator grant
- 2022-01-01: CatQubit
- First equity round
- 2025-01-28: series_b a fundraising of €100 million
- Stages reached
- EU-funded quantum project in CORDIS; EIC Accelerator grant, or the EIC Fund named as investor; Announced private funding round
- Months from first project to first equity
- 36
Source: lab-to-market journeys built from CORDIS and the curated funding rounds file, stored 2 November 2026.
Announced funding rounds
| Date | Round | Status | Amount as stated | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-22 | extension | closed | undisclosed | Alice & Bob |
| 2026-04-27 | public equity | selected | undisclosed | European Innovation Council |
| 2025-01-28 | series b | closed | a fundraising of €100 million | Supernova Invest |
Source: the curated funding rounds file, compiled 2026-10-23; each round cites its own source.
Technology families and SRIA goals
Source: the shared quantum technology taxonomy of the portal, assignments confirmed by an editor; profile stored 2 November 2026.
Related goals of the draft SRIA 2026
12 goals of the draft SRIA 2026 concern these technologies; the first 6 are listed.
- Milestone by 2030: 100 logical qubits with logical error rates around 10^-6 by 2030, matching the Commission objective of about 100 logical qubits by 2030.
- Goal by 2035: 1000 logical qubits with logical error rates around 10^-6 by 2035; the draft calls this the lower edge of broad utility rather than an end point.
- Goal in 2035: Superconducting: run fully error-corrected algorithms on hundreds of qubits without unwieldy overhead, by making the best qubits first and then scaling; analogue and annealing processors show certified utility within HPC workflows.
- Milestone by 2030: Every platform should reach beyond-classical ("quantum supremacy") performance on a synthetic benchmark in Europe by 2030, as the entry point before useful applications.
- Milestone by 2028: Break even with error correction on a few platforms as soon as possible, and demonstrate fault-tolerant universal gates by 2028.
- Goal 2035 goals: Verified quantum advantage in 3 to 5 application areas against state-of-the-art classical methods, and complete fault-tolerant resource estimates for at least 20 industrially relevant problems.
Source: draft Strategic Research and Industry Agenda 2026 (Quantum Flagship, draft for consultation, 2026-09-19), checked 2026-10-24. Related by technology family only, not by anything this organisation said.
People in quantum at this organisation
Researchers whose latest quantum works name this organisation (OpenAlex). Professional information only. About this directory
- Fabrizio Minganti (12 quantum works since 2022)
- Élie Gouzien (8 quantum works since 2022)
- Jérémie Guillaud (7 quantum works since 2022)
- Raphaël Lescanne (7 quantum works since 2022)
- Joachim Cohen (5 quantum works since 2022)
Capabilities on public record
From the supplier directory: each capability with its strongest evidence. A contract, a documented product, a product line or software shows supply; an EU-funded project or a confirmed technology area shows research activity. Not an endorsement or a qualification.
- Software: sdk or programming framework Open-source software it develops
- Superconducting circuits EU-funded project naming the capability
- Quantum computing and simulation (technology area) Technology area confirmed by an editor
- Quantum software stack Technology area confirmed by an editor
- Qubit hardware platforms Technology area confirmed by an editor
- Superconducting qubits Technology area confirmed by an editor
Funding and evidence
Publicly announced funding events with their sources, as reviewed by the portal editors. Grants, public contracts and investments are listed by type and never added up; amounts are as announced, in the stated currency. Not exhaustive; information only, not investment advice.
2026-05-22 · Venture or growth equity · extension · Amount not disclosed
Announced by a party; not independently confirmed
Sources: Alice & Bob (Press release)
2026-04-27 · Other (listing, acquisition or unclassified) · public equity · Amount not disclosed
Verified by independent sources
Sources: European Innovation Council (EU funding record)
2025-01-28 · Venture or growth equity · series b · a fundraising of €100 million
Announced by a party; not independently confirmed
Sources: Supernova Invest (Press release)
Sources last checked 2 Nov 2026. Last verified by an editor 29 Oct 2026.
ALICE & BOB is listed in 6 project(s) in this CORDIS quantum-related snapshot, coordinating 1. Recorded net EU contribution across these projects: EUR 3,736,669. Coverage is limited to the imported dataset; participation is not a verified quantum technology capability.
Source: CORDIS, Publications Office of the European Union (CORDIS). Retrieved 2026-10-16. Licence: European Commission reuse notice (Decision 2011/833/EU). Selected administrative metadata, adapted presentation. No endorsement by the source is implied. Organisation-level data only. Licence: European Commission reuse policy (Decision 2011/833/EU).
Source: cordis.europa.eu · checked 16 Oct 2026