The round builds on the company’s $4.2m pre-seed round in 2025 and will be used to scale and grow the organisation’s quantum ambitions.

Zuriq, a quantum computing company based out of Switzerland, has announced a seed funding round of $25.5m. 

The round follows a successful $4.2m pre-seed round in 2025 and this year was led by Quantonation, with participation from Forward.one, Extantia, Firgun Ventures and additional previous round investors. 

Zuriq is a spin-out of ETH Zürich and intends to use the funds to scale its trapped-ion quantum processors and expand its team alongside research and development efforts as it works to significantly increase the number of qubits its architecture can support.

According to the organisation, the majority of trapped-ion quantum computers are based on a decades old design in which ions are held in one-dimensional chains stitched together into larger grids using complex junction structures. 

Zuriq claims to have taken a novel approach with processors that are natively two-dimensional and infrastructure that allows ions to move freely in any direction without the junctions that constrain reconfiguration.

In a statement published by Zuriq, Prof Jonathan Home, a scientific adviser at Zuriq and professor of the Department of Physics at ETH Zürich, said, “What makes this approach powerful is geometry. Hold ions in a line and the count grows one at a time, hold them in two dimensions and it grows with the area of the chip, on a standard chip, that is the difference between tens of ions and many thousands. 

“Just as important, the ions can be moved freely in three dimensions, so they can be connected together far more flexibly, and that connectivity is what ultimately makes a quantum computer more capable. Reaching the scale and connectivity that real applications will need has been the central challenge for the whole field.”

Zuriq has stated it is now turning its attention to scaling its technology and plans to increase the number of ions on a chip to enable powerful, commercially useful machines. 

Christophe Jurczak, a founding partner at Quantonation, said, “A common misconception is that the quantum race is already decided, but that is far from reality. Zuriq is demonstrating that there remain significant and transformational physics breakthroughs still to be made in quantum architectures. 

“The scientific caliber of the team is world-class, which is why Zuriq has been phenomenally successful in attracting global talent to join them and build 2D-native quantum computers where trapped-ion qubits finally have the freedom to move and connect.”

Also this week (27 July), Multiverse Computing, which is based in San Sebastián, Spain, announced a $570m Series C funding round at a $1.7bn pre-money valuation. 

The funds are expected to go towards expanding the company’s model library, continuing research and development, investing in sovereign AI infrastructure and building out a regional presence in east and south-east Asia, the Middle East, Canada and the US.

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