Quantum Motion opens lab in Australia expanding their operations to build a scalable silicon quantum computer
Quantum Motion has opened its new lab in Sydney at Cicada Innovations, Australia’s leading deep tech incubator. Quantum Motion’s multimillion-dollar investment in technology, infrastructure, and people will allow the company to contribute to Australia’s growing quantum industry and broad range of talent.
“Australia is an exciting place for the technology sector,” explains Mark Johnson, Quantum Motion’s Lead Quantum Engineer in Australia. ‘We are looking forward to being part of the growing quantum sector network around Sydney and helping to develop that.”
Alongside opening new experimental facilities, Quantum Motion is a member of the Sydney Quantum Academy, where the company will partner with excellent universities in Sydney to offer studentship opportunities.
“You can’t do innovation without talent,” James Palles-Dimmock, Quantum Motion’s CEO says. “Brains are the engines of innovation. The quality of research and talent in Australia is undeniable. Over 60% of our senior quantum engineers in our hardware team hail from Sydney.”
From London to Sydney
Quantum Motion is a UK based quantum computing scale-up founded in 2017 by researchers from University College London and the University of Oxford. The team opened their first Central London lab in 2019 and now the team consists of over 60 specialists in quantum theory, engineering and software.
Over the last two years Quantum Motion has made a series of peer-reviewed and record-breaking achievements that underline how silicon could be the most cost-effective and scalable way of producing the millions of qubits that are needed to create fully-functional, fault tolerant quantum computers.
Quantum Motion’s latest funding round brings their total investment raised to £62 million. The company has previously raised over £20m in equity and grant funding from the UK and EU and existing investors which have supported the company through its early-stage work and growth, enabling it to hit a sequence of milestones that demonstrate a clear path towards building quantum computers.
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