Quantum Startup Haiqu Raises $11M Funding In Seed Round

Haiqu was founded in 2022 by Richard Givhan, a Stanford-trained engineer, and Mykola Maksymenko, a quantum researcher with experience at the Max Planck Society and the Weizmann Institute of Science.

“Quantum teams need to make empirical progress on hardware to close the gap toward industrially useful quantum applications. Today, too little experimentation happens because quantum cloud costs are prohibitive and hardware performance remains insufficient,” said Givhan.

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He added, “Our goal is to change that overnight with a software system that can run larger applications at a fraction of the cost. We are grateful to have found investors who recognise the ugly truth: middleware isn’t sexy, but it matters.”

Haiqu’s technology bridges the gap between noisy quantum hardware and the complex algorithms they struggle to run. Its operating system reduces inefficiencies through circuit optimization, intelligent data handling and proprietary “error shielding.”

Unlike platforms such as Zapata AI, Classiq and Riverlane, Haiqu operates across multiple quantum machines, adapting performance to each specific device type.

About Haiqu

Haiqu is a quantum software company building a new execution stack for near-term quantum computers across all hardware modalities. Its platform enables large-scale data loading, advanced simulations, and noise-resilient quantum machine learning, helping unlock practical performance from today’s imperfect quantum devices.