Quobly, a French scale-up from our Next-Gen Computing market group, has closed a €115 million Series A financing round. With this funding, the company aims to accelerate the industrialisation of its silicon-based quantum computers and bring its first commercial product to market by the end of 2026.
The round is led by Bpifrance, SEALSQ and STMicroelectronics, with participation from the European Innovation Council (EIC Fund), Blast, ALIAD (Air Liquide Venture Capital) and existing investor Innovacom. Existing shareholders also include the CEA, CNRS, Quantonation and Supernova Invest. Bpifrance is participating through the Deep Tech 2030 fund, managed on behalf of the French government as part of the France 2030 initiative.
This Series A marks an important milestone in Quobly’s path to industrial-scale quantum computing, transitioning from early validation to the production of its first commercial systems. Quobly plans to use the financing to:
The company aims to deploy its first commercial quantum computer through the cloud by the end of 2026 under its Alloy product line.
Quobly positions this Series A as a shift from early technology validation to building its first commercial systems. The first system, Alloy Pioneer, is designed for early adopters in high-performance computing and research environments. Quobly says it will be accessible through the cloud in 2026, ahead of deployment within high-performance computing infrastructures in 2027.
The company is designing its systems to integrate into existing high-performance computing and data-centre infrastructures, including footprint, power supply and utility requirements. Alloy Pioneer will also be accessible through Alloy Forge, Quobly’s quantum application development environment, enabling users to develop and validate applications under realistic hardware constraints.
Quobly’s approach is based on the use of FD-SOI technology on 300 mm wafers, leveraging established semiconductor manufacturing processes to address scalability, yield and reproducibility. The company also cites strategic partnerships across the semiconductor ecosystem, including STMicroelectronics, Air Liquide, Soitec and Orano, to support process control, materials engineering, cryogenics and yield optimisation as it moves toward industrial deployment.
Maud Vinet, CEO and co-founder, Quobly:
“Over the past two years, we have demonstrated that silicon qubits can be developed within semiconductor manufacturing processes and integrated into a system architecture. With this Series A, we are accelerating the deployment of our first commercial systems and building a quantum computing platform designed to integrate into existing computing infrastructures. Our objective is to make quantum computing deployable, scalable and usable within real industrial environments.”
This Series A follows Quobly’s €19 million seed phase (2023-2025), when the company demonstrated the feasibility of developing silicon qubits within semiconductor manufacturing processes, and established a system-level architecture integrating device, control and software layers. Gwenaël Hamon, Senior Investment Director at Bpifrance, pointed out:
“Our second investment in Quobly is fully in line with our ambition to support the emergence of sovereign technology champions. By choosing a quantum architecture compatible with established microelectronics industry standards, Quobly paves the way for the rapid and controlled industrialization of breakthrough technologies, an essential condition to ensure Europe’s strategic autonomy in quantum computing.”
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