Company brief: Alice & Bob
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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
- Yes
- Technology areas of its EU projects
- Quantum computing and simulation, Quantum sensing and metrology, Enabling technologies and supply chain
Legal entities linked to this company after a review of name and country:
EU grants
Takes part in 6 EU-funded quantum projects. EU contribution received: EUR 3,736,669.16 (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 Accelerator, blended finance (grant plus an EIC Fund investment component): 1 project
| Project | EIC scheme | Start | EU contribution to the project |
|---|---|---|---|
| CatQubit: Building universal quantum computers with self-correcting cat-qubit technology | EIC Accelerator, blended finance (grant plus an EIC Fund investment component) | 2022-01-01 | EUR 2,500,000 |
| SUPREME 1: SUPERCONDUCTING EUROPEAN QUANTUM PILOT LINE | Other scheme | 2026-04-01 | EUR 24,999,049.41 |
| OpenSuperQPlus100: Open Superconducting Quantum Computers (OpenSuperQPlus) | Other scheme | 2023-03-01 | EUR 19,999,327.25 |
| Qu-Test: Qu-Test | Other scheme | 2023-04-01 | EUR 18,912,678.81 |
| EuroQSS: Universal European Quantum Software Stack | Other scheme | 2026-10-01 | EUR 4,999,077.50 |
| QuBriC: Bridging Quantum and Classical Error Correction for Scalable Fault-tolerant Quantum Computing | Other scheme | 2026-10-01 | EUR 4,656,952.08 |
Source: CORDIS, Publications Office of the European Union, retrieved 2026-10-16.
Patent families
48 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
69 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
| Date | Type and status | Amount | Investors (organisations) | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-22 | Extension or further close Closed | Undisclosed | NVentures (NVIDIA) | Alice & Bob (Company press release, read 2026-10-23; Paragraph beginning "The investment supports", second sentence) Extension of the Series B; financial details not disclosed. |
| 2026-04-27 | Public equity investment (EIC STEP Scale Up) Selected, subject to due diligence | Undisclosed | European Innovation Council (EIC) and EIC Fund | European Innovation Council (Official page, read 2026-10-23; List of the eight companies; EUR 146.5 million of equity combined, no per-company figure) Registry entry Put forward for an EIC Fund investment decision under EIC STEP Scale Up, subject to due diligence. |
| 2025-01-28 | Series B Closed | EUR 100,000,000 As announced: a fundraising of €100 million | Future French Champions (lead), AVP (AXA Venture Partners) (lead), Bpifrance (lead), Supernova Invest, Elaia, Breega, European Innovation Council (EIC) and EIC Fund | Supernova Invest (Investor press release, read 2026-10-23; First body paragraph; paragraph beginning "All Series A investors") |
| Currency | Total as announced | Rounds |
|---|---|---|
| EUR | EUR 100,000,000 | 1 |
Not added: 1 undisclosed, 1 not closed (targets, commitments and selections), 0 acquisitions or listings and 0 included in a later figure. Currencies are never converted or added together.
From grant to equity
- First EU-funded quantum project
- CatQubit, EIC Accelerator, blended finance (grant and EIC Fund investment component) (Horizon Europe), started 2022-01-01; EUR 2,500,000 (EU contribution (maximum grant agreed), the whole project). Source: CORDIS.
- First EIC Accelerator project
- CatQubit, EIC Accelerator, blended finance (grant and EIC Fund investment component) (Horizon Europe), started 2022-01-01; EUR 2,500,000 (EU contribution (maximum grant agreed), the whole project). Source: CORDIS.
- First round with the EIC Fund among the investors
- 2025-01-28, Series B, EUR 100,000,000 (as announced: a fundraising of €100 million). Sources: Supernova Invest (read 2026-10-23; First body paragraph; paragraph beginning "All Series A investors")
- First equity round recorded in the portal
- 2025-01-28, Series B, EUR 100,000,000 (as announced: a fundraising of €100 million). Sources: Supernova Invest (read 2026-10-23; First body paragraph; paragraph beginning "All Series A investors")
- Public investment registry
- Alice & Bob selected for EIC STEP Scale Up investment (official source)
- Time between
- 36 months (3.0 years) from the start of the first project to the first equity round recorded in the portal. That round is later than Series A, so earlier rounds are missing from the rounds file and the journey is left out of the median.
Not covered
- 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.