Dutch DeepTech Startup OrangeQS Secures €12 Million Funding For Its Quantum Chip Testing

The round was led by Icecat Capital, with support from Cottonwood Technology Fund, QBeat Ventures, QDNL Participations, and InnovationQuarter Capital. Cottonwood and QDNL also backed Orange Quantum Systems in its pre-Seed round in 2023.

“We are excited to see such strong support from the investment community,” says Garrelt Alberts, CEO of OrangeQS. “This funding round not only validates the critical importance of our technology but also enables us to accelerate our product roadmap, delivering the testing solutions essential to the emerging quantum computing industry as it advances toward building powerful quantum computers that benefit society.”

As quantum chips grow more complex, there's a rising need for scalable, accurate, and cost-efficient testing. OrangeQS addresses this with a full suite of solutions designed to streamline chip testing across the entire value chain.

Their flagship product, OrangeQS MAX, is built for high-volume, standardised testing and is already being used by Europe’s leading quantum computer builder, IQM, in Finland.

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For research needs, OrangeQS FLEX offers a customisable solution and is used by top institutions like the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the University of Napoli.

OrangeQS also developed Juice, an open-source operating system that helps researchers manage their entire quantum lab setup. Juice is being tested by R&D labs including the Advanced Quantum Testbed at Berkeley Lab (USA), Chalmers Next Labs (Sweden), and QuTech (Netherlands).

With the new €12 million in funding, OrangeQS plans to develop faster testing machines capable of evaluating quantum chips in days instead of weeks.

This breakthrough aims to help quantum chip makers regularly double the number of reliable qubits—mirroring a "quantum version" of Moore’s Law, which drove progress in classical computing.

By speeding up testing and scaling capabilities, OrangeQS is playing a key role in advancing the quantum computing industry.

About Orange Quantum Systems

Founded in 2020, Orange Quantum Systems (OrangeQS) develops advanced tools for automated testing and analysis of quantum chips, helping move quantum computing from the lab to industrial scale.