Company brief: Orange Quantum Systems
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Brief dated 2026-11-04. 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
- Netherlands
- SME in CORDIS
- Yes
- Technology areas of its EU projects
- Quantum computing and simulation
Legal entities linked to this company after a review of name and country:
EU grants
Takes part in 5 EU-funded quantum projects. EU contribution received: EUR 4,000,884 (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
- EIC Pathfinder: 1 project
| Project | EIC scheme | Start | EU contribution to the project |
|---|---|---|---|
| QuKiT: Quantum bits with Kitaev Transmons | EIC Pathfinder | 2023-07-01 | EUR 4,749,963.75 |
| HTQC-Diagnostics: High-Throughput Quantum Chip Diagnostics | EIC Accelerator, blended finance (grant plus an EIC Fund investment component) | 2023-08-01 | EUR 2,499,999 |
| QLSI2: Initiative for european Semiconductor-based Large-scale Quantum computer | Other scheme | 2024-06-01 | EUR 24,974,713.50 |
| OpenSuperQPlus100: Open Superconducting Quantum Computers (OpenSuperQPlus) | Other scheme | 2023-03-01 | EUR 19,999,327.25 |
| MATQu: Materials for Quantum Computing | Other scheme | 2021-06-01 | EUR 6,548,524.39 |
Source: CORDIS, Publications Office of the European Union, retrieved 2026-10-16.
Patent families
3 distinct quantum patent families, looked up on 2026-10-27.
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
Status: not matched in OpenAlex yet.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-20 | Seed Closed | EUR 12,000,000 As announced: an oversubscribed €12 million seed round | Icecat Capital (lead), Cottonwood Technology Fund, QBeat Ventures, QDNL Participations, InnovationQuarter Capital | InnovationQuarter (Investor press release, read 2026-10-23; First body paragraph; paragraph beginning "The round was led by Icecat Capital") Date as shown on the InnovationQuarter page; not confirmed by a second source read. |
| Currency | Total as announced | Rounds |
|---|---|---|
| EUR | EUR 12,000,000 | 1 |
Not added: 0 undisclosed, 0 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
- MATQu, Collaborative research, innovation or coordination action (Horizon 2020), started 2021-06-01; EUR 6,548,524.39 (EU contribution (maximum grant agreed), the whole project). Source: CORDIS.
- First EIC Pathfinder or Transition project
- QuKiT, EIC Pathfinder (Horizon Europe), started 2023-07-01; EUR 4,749,963.75 (EU contribution (maximum grant agreed), the whole project). Source: CORDIS.
- First EIC Accelerator project
- HTQC-Diagnostics, EIC Accelerator, blended finance (grant and EIC Fund investment component) (Horizon Europe), started 2023-08-01; EUR 2,499,999 (EU contribution (maximum grant agreed), the whole project). Source: CORDIS.
- First equity round recorded in the portal
- 2026-05-20, Seed, EUR 12,000,000 (as announced: an oversubscribed €12 million seed round). Sources: InnovationQuarter (read 2026-10-23; First body paragraph; paragraph beginning "The round was led by Icecat Capital")
- Time between
- 59 months (4.9 years) from the start of the first project to the first equity round recorded in the portal.
Not covered
- Publications have not been matched in OpenAlex for this company yet.
- 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.