Company brief: Thales

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Brief dated 2026-11-03. Figures assembled on 2026-11-02 from the stored copies of the sources named in each section.

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Company and sources

Country: France
SME in CORDIS: No
Technology areas of its EU projects: Quantum computing and simulation, Quantum communication, Quantum sensing and metrology, Enabling technologies and supply chain

The CORDIS organisation this row comes from:

Thales (France), CORDIS participant 999751938

EU grants

Takes part in 21 EU-funded quantum projects. EU contribution received: EUR 10,935,685.35 (net EU contribution CORDIS records for the company in these projects; not the project budgets and not payments).

EIC schemes named by the CORDIS funding scheme

EIC Pathfinder: 3 projects

EIC projects first, then the largest awards (whole project, all participants)
Project	EIC scheme	Start	EU contribution to the project
IQARO: SpIn-orbitronic QuAntum bits in Reconfigurable 2D-Oxides	EIC Pathfinder	2023-10-01	EUR 3,717,545.25
QuMicro: Quantum Microwave Detection with Diamond Spins	EIC Pathfinder	2022-04-01	EUR 2,914,056
ATYPIQUAL: ATomicallY Precise nanorIbbons QUAntum pLatform	EIC Pathfinder	2023-10-01	EUR 1,828,288.75
QIA-Phase2: Quantum Internet Alliance - Phase2	Other scheme	2026-04-01	EUR 47,500,000
Q-PLANET SGA1: Quantum Pilot Line for production of Advanced chips for Neutral atom European Technologies - Specific Agreement 1	Other scheme	2026-05-01	EUR 24,991,274.91
DIREQT: Diamond for Industry REady Quantum Technologies	Other scheme	2026-07-01	EUR 24,987,869.05
QLSI2: Initiative for european Semiconductor-based Large-scale Quantum computer	Other scheme	2024-06-01	EUR 24,974,713.50
P4Q: Photonics for Quantum Pilot Line	Other scheme	2026-04-01	EUR 24,927,964.81
QIA-Phase1: Quantum Internet Alliance - Phase1	Other scheme	2022-10-01	EUR 24,000,000
ASTERIQS: Advancing Science and TEchnology thRough dIamond Quantum Sensing	Other scheme	2018-10-01	EUR 9,747,888.50

Source: CORDIS, Publications Office of the European Union, retrieved 2026-10-16.

Patent families

52 distinct quantum patent families, looked up on 2026-10-22.

Source: European Patent Office, Open Patent Services, by applicant name in the quantum CPC groups; derived counts only. A count is not a measure of patent quality or ownership.

Publications

322 works in quantum topics of the matched OpenAlex institution, looked up on 2026-10-20.

Source: OpenAlex, CC0; the institution is matched by name and country.

Infrastructure

Status: the deployment tracker names this company in no contract award.

Announced funding rounds

Status: no publicly announced round of this company is in the curated rounds file.

From grant to equity

First EU-funded quantum project: GreQuE, Marie Skłodowska-Curie action (Horizon 2020), started 2017-09-01; EUR 1,962,000 (EU contribution (maximum grant agreed), the whole project). Source: CORDIS.
First EIC Pathfinder or Transition project: QuMicro, EIC Pathfinder (Horizon Europe), started 2022-04-01; EUR 2,914,056 (EU contribution (maximum grant agreed), the whole project). Source: CORDIS.

Lab to market: method, limits and every journey

Not covered

No publicly announced funding round of this company is in the curated rounds file; this does not mean it raised none.
Valuations, revenues, ownership stakes, cap tables and individual investors are not collected.
National grants, regional aid, loans and payments are not covered; EU figures are amounts awarded, not paid.
Use of infrastructure as a customer is not recorded; only a named supplier role in the deployment tracker is shown.
Nothing here is a rating, a recommendation or investment advice; figures are as published by their sources.

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