Tokyo-based quantum software developer JIJ Inc. has announced the completion of an 840 million JPY (approximately $5.2 million USD) equity financing round led by Global Brain. The capital raise included participation from multiple funds managed by Global Brain—including the KDDI Open Innovation Fund III, ME Innovation Fund (Mitsubishi Electric), ANA Future Frontier Fund, and KURONEKO Innovation Fund II (Yamato Holdings)—alongside follow-on investment from Fujitsu Ventures. The new funding will support the scale-up of JIJ’s enterprise optimization operations, advance its cloud-based JijZept AI modeling platform, expand global subsidiaries in the UK and Germany, and accelerate the development of gate-based quantum middleware under [...]

Mitsubishi Electric’s ME Innovation Fund Invests in JIJ, Startup Using Quantum Computers to Develop Mathematical Optimization Middleware

JIJ has raised about US$5.2 million to expand its AI-enabled optimization platform, advance gate-based quantum computing technologies.