OrangeQS Secures €15 Million in Oversubscribed Seed Funding and Launches Strategic Partnership Program to Scale Quantum Chip Production
OrangeQS has successfully extended its seed funding round to €15 million, marking a significant step toward the commercial industrialization of quantum computing. Supported by a substantial investment from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Fund, this oversubscribed round represents a turning point for the Dutch company as it works to remove one of the industry’s most enduring bottlenecks: the laborious and tedious testing of quantum devices.
In addition to this financial achievement, OrangeQS has formally introduced the OrangeQS MAX Partnership Program, a cooperative effort aimed at expediting the advancement of high-throughput testing technology. Industry leaders Rigetti Computing, QuantWare, and Peak Quantum businesses at the vanguard of cryogenic technology and quantum hardware manufacturing are among the program’s first participants.
A Strategic Investment for European Deep Tech
The EIC Fund’s investment is a resounding endorsement of deep tech innovation in Europe. Zeina Chebli, an EIC Fund Venture and Growth Investor, has joined the OrangeQS board as part of this investment. Svetoslava Georgieva, Chair of the EIC Fund Board, claims that the investment demonstrates the Fund’s dedication to supporting aspirational entrepreneurs who are tackling significant scaling obstacles. According to Georgieva, OrangeQS is directly addressing a major obstacle that has historically impeded the advancement of quantum technology by enhancing the validation of quantum chip performance.
This most recent funding comes after OrangeQS’s previous success with the “High-Throughput Quantum Chip Diagnostics” EIC Accelerator project. This research served as the basis for the OrangeQS MAX’s initial iteration, which was introduced in 2024 and shipped to IQM Quantum Computers in 2025. This product line will be further improved with the additional funding, guaranteeing that it continues to be a turn-key, automated solution for the sector.
The OrangeQS MAX Partnership Program: Collaborative Innovation
The recently created Partnership Program is intended to match OrangeQS’s development roadmap with the unique requirements of significant quantum chip producers. OrangeQS intends to customize its next generation of test solutions to accommodate various quantum architectures and manufacturing processes by collaborating independently with each partner, Rigetti, QuantWare, and Peak Quantum.
This program’s dedication to protecting intellectual property is one of its distinctive features. While maintaining the security of their unique designs, partner firms can shape the OrangeQS MAX system’s technology and product roadmaps according to their own needs and degrees of commitment. The OrangeQS MAX system is meant to be “future-proof and fit-for-purpose” as the industry develops with this cooperative yet secure environment.
The program’s first phase will concentrate on two crucial areas: non-destructive testing and cryogenic integrated circuit (IC) development. The sluggish, damaging, or manual testing techniques that currently predominate in quantum R&D labs must be replaced by these technologies.
Breaking the Testing Bottleneck
The OrangeQS MAX, a system that establishes new industry standards for high-volume, automated quantum chip testing, is the core of the company’s product line. In the past, evaluating quantum circuits was a time-consuming procedure that frequently required engineers to manually calibrate and measure qubits at temperatures close to absolute zero. With their “OrangeQS Juice” platform, an open-source operating system created especially for quantum R&D labs, OrangeQS aims to alter this.
OrangeQS Executive Director Garrelt Alberts emphasized the significance of this change. He said that as the industry “scales towards commercial production,” the company would be able to maintain its dominant position in quantum testing with the help of the EIC Fund and the new collaboration program. To keep up with the exponential growth anticipated by chip manufacturers, future modifications that enable even faster cryogenic testing are intended.
The Vision of “Dark Quantum Foundries”
Beyond the current cooperation program, OrangeQS is already setting the stage for the next ten years of quantum production. In advance of the April 23 ISIG Quantum Computing Infra Summit 2026, the business just released a white paper. A framework for “utility-grade quantum chip testing” is presented in this document.
The idea of “dark quantum foundries”—highly automated manufacturing facilities that can create quantum chips with little human intervention is said to be made possible by this framework, which is a “key enabler” for the notion. The transition from the experimental “physics project” phase of quantum computing to a more dependable, industrialized “engineering” phase is suggested by the shift toward utility-grade testing.
Global Presence and Upcoming Engagements
OrangeQS, which is situated in the Delftech Park in Delft, Netherlands, is firmly established in one of the top hubs for quantum technology worldwide. With a number of forthcoming presentations and events, the company is continuing to be involved in the global community.
The group is engaged in a number of additional projects in addition to Garrelt Alberts’ talk at the ISIG Quantum Computing Infra Summit:
- In 2026, Amber will represent the company at the TNO Semicon Event.
- At a “Quantum Wednesday” event, Tim Vroomans will give a presentation on the OrangeQS Juice operating system.
- Additionally, the business is taking part in the OpenSuperQPlus project, which commemorated World Quantum Day in 2024.
- OrangeQS will be at ZIE 2026 to interact with the larger electronics and technology community.
The infrastructure supporting this transformation, particularly testing and validation, will be crucial as the field of quantum computing moves from theoretical milestones to real, large-scale utility. OrangeQS is establishing itself as the leader in quantum quality control in the commercial era with a coalition of powerful industrial partners and €15 million in new investment.
