Xatoms and Knead take home top prizes amid strong Canadian showing at SXSW pitch competition
Canada was represented in five of the more than 70 companies pitching.
Quantum
Photonic claims breakthrough in quantum computing error correction
Company paper claims a new code family can perform quantum operations with lower physical qubit requirements.
Canadian quantum commercialization and research projects get federal funding boost
Three commercialization projects get $4.7 million from DIGITAL, NSERC grants $74 million to 107 research projects.
Xanadu claims networking breakthrough with new photonic quantum computer Aurora
Aurora “marks a pivotal milestone” on the path to useful quantum computers.
D-Wave CEO says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is “dead wrong” about quantum computing
Huang sent the share prices of quantum companies down after expressing a pessimistic outlook on the sector.
Two new contracts take off as SBQuantum looks to send its tech to space
Startup is launching projects with the Canadian and European space agencies.
NGen invests $21.4 million across quantum, space, and EV manufacturing projects
Nord Quantique, Mission Control, among project partners supported by the federally backed innovation cluster.
Canadian telecom is gearing up for a quantum leap
TELUS helps drive quantum research and development.
Xanadu and CMC among partners in academic quantum projects receiving $7.4 million in federal grant funding
INRS has three projects receiving funding from NSERC.
DistriQ joins Quantum Industry Canada as advocacy group continues membership drive
Quantum Industry Canada has added more than 20 members and affiliates since the beginning of 2024.
Report: Canada’s quantum talent pool punches above its weight
Despite a pool of just 4,000, Canada still represents five percent of the world’s quantum talent.
Zero Point Cryogenics secures $2.67 million to help cool quantum computers
The non-dilutive funding came from PrairiesCan and the City of Edmonton’s Edge Fund.
Xanadu’s Christian Weedbrook is raising another $200 million to build a quantum data centre
The CEO of Canada’s quantum unicorn is very optimistic about the country’s innovation potential.
Xatoms is planning a quantum leap to clean the world’s water
R&D-stage startup is using AI and quantum chemistry to purify the world’s most precious resource.
Is Québec Canada’s quantum province?
Quantacet managing partner Martin Laforest joins to discuss quantum tech’s “degrees of sexiness.”