Horizon Quantum is part of a new crop of startups that focus on building new tools for building software for quantum computers. The Singapore-based company, which is hardware-agnostic but also launched a close partnership with Rigetti Computing in 2018, today announced that it has raised a $3.23 million funding round led by Sequoia Capital India. Previous investors SGInnovate, Abies Ventures, DCVC, Qubit Protocol, Summer Capital and Posa CV also participated.
Singapore’s great quantum quest makes the cover story of The Business Times. Our CEO Joe Fitzsimons, who was interviewed for the article, speaks about the fast development of the technology: "Year by year, month by month, even week by week, progress is made in the field."
Singapore’s great quantum quest makes the cover story of The Business Times. Our CEO Joe Fitzsimons, who was interviewed for the article, speaks about the fast development of the technology: "Year by year, month by month, even week by week, progress is made in the field."
In an interview for TechHQ, our CEO Joe Fitzsimons talks about the potential of more structured quantum algorithms over NISQ variational algorithms.
Horizon Quantum Computing announces its plans to set up its European office in Ireland.
Our CEO Dr Joe Fitzsimons shared in an interview with The Irish Times about the factors that made Horizon choose Ireland for our first overseas office.
Horizon Quantum Computing is building an IDE that will help developers who are proficient in languages like C and C++ to build quantum apps.
As part of its 20th-anniversary celebrations, the Singapore Businesses Federation launched the book ‘20 Conversations’. Deputy Prime Minister Mr Heng Swee Keat was the guest of honour at the event along with the attendance of 100 business leaders, trade associations and chamber leaders.
Horizon’s Chief Science Officer Dr Si-Hui Tan shared her views on the potential of quantum computing at Asia’s flagship tech event ATxSummit 2022.
Tech Wire Asia caught up with Dr Si-Hui Tan, Chief Science Officer at Horizon Quantum Computing at the ATxSG summit to get her views on the industry, from the technology to the talent development in the field.
Horizon’s CSO Dr Si-Hui Tan was on CNA to explain key concepts of the technology, talk about its potential for industries, and highlight Singapore’s position in the quantum computing race.
Relying on cloud-based hardware presents a number of barriers to industry adoption of quantum computing. A Quantum Computing Report article discusses how blind quantum computing may help overcome these barriers and highlights Horizon’s contribution to this technology.
Horizon Quantum Computing, a Singapore-based company providing software development and deployment tools for quantum computing applications, is to become a node on the National Quantum-Safe Network (NQSN) announced by the National Research Foundation, Singapore, and the National University of Singapore (NUS).
Breakthroughs in quantum computing keep coming – the latest quantum processor designed by Google has solved a complex mathematical calculation in less than four minutes; the most advanced conventional computers would require 10,000 years to get to an answer. Here’s the problem though: even as scientists perfect the quantum computing hardware, there aren’t many people with the expertise to make use of it, particularly in real-life settings.
As quantum computers become ever more powerful, how can we be sure that the answers they return are accurate? A team of physicists, including Horizon’s CEO Joe Fitzsimons, have developed a new method to use one unreliable quantum processor to verify another and implemented it on five different quantum processors.
Systematic means of benchmarking the performance of a quantum processor are still mostly missing. Xiao Yuan, Yunchao Liu, Qi Zhao, Bartosz Regula, Jayne Thompson (Horizon’s Technical Product Manager) and Mile Gu studied a practically meaningful, experimentally accessible, and universally relevant quantifier of a memory’s capability to preserve the quantum advantage. This measure applies unilaterally to all platforms, allowing us to benchmark processors across different architectures.
Marie-Christine Roehsner, Joshua A. Kettlewell, Joe Fitzsimons (Horizon’s CEO)and Philip Walther, engineered and experimentally realized a new protocol for running probabilistic one-time programs on a quantum computer that resolved major drawbacks of all previously known schemes. By encoding classical software in small quantum states, the team was able to design and successfully execute single use copies of quantum software.
As shared by Dr Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, 2021 will be the year when quantum computing will start to blossom, and Singapore is at the forefront of this exciting field. In this session, Michael Brett, Principal Specialist at Amazon Braket, welcomes our CEO Dr Joe Fitzsimons who introduces Horizon’s classical to quantum toolchain and explains how Horizon is leveraging Amazon Braket to build solutions that have the potential to revolutionise other industries.
Singapore, a skyscraper-laden, tropical paradise known for its business-friendly policies. With the second-highest GDP per capita (PPP) in the world, it’s no wonder this island city-state — one of the Four Asian Tigers — has some of the most innovative startups in the world. This goes for startups in the quantum tech ecosystem, too, with a handful so far founded within the last half a decade.
