Swiss quantum hardware startup ZuriQ has raised $25.5 million (€22.4M) in seed funding to scale its 2D trapped-ion quantum computing architecture. Spun out of ETH Zürich in 2024 by Dr. Pavel Hrmo, Dr. Tobias Sägesser, and Dr. Shreyans Jain, the company builds on a $4.2 million pre-seed round raised in 2025. The funding round was led by Quantonation, with additional participation from Forward.one, Extantia, Firgun Ventures, and existing early-stage investors. ZuriQ’s hardware platform addresses a fundamental scaling limit in conventional trapped-ion systems. While legacy architectures rely on radio-frequency (RF) Paul traps that constrain ions into single-file 1D chains stitched together via [...]

The Swiss startup says it has developed a new architecture for quantum chips that will enable rapid scaling

ETH Zürich spin-out ZuriQ has raised a $25.5M seed round to scale trapped-ion quantum processors built on a natively two-dimensional architecture.