OrangeQS partners with Rigetti, QuantWare and Peak Quantum. With Rigetti Computing, OrangeQS connects its automated chip testing vision to one of the leading superconducting hardware developers, where rapid iteration and validation are essential for scaling toward logical qubits. The engagement with QuantWare is particularly notable, given QuantWare’s focus on scalable superconducting quantum processors and its recent major investment round aimed at expanding manufacturing capacity and international reach. By working alongside QuantWare, OrangeQS aligns itself with a hardware company explicitly targeting industrial scale production. Finally, the partnership with Peak Quantum further reinforces this ecosystem approach, linking OrangeQS to a company operating across quantum hardware development and system integration.
With these collaborations, OrangeQS builds testing infrastructure that can serve superconducting, and potentially other, architectures as the industry transitions from prototype devices to repeatable quantum chip manufacturing. OrangeQS has positioned its platform as infrastructure for the broader quantum ecosystem, and its partnerships reflect that strategy. This infrastructure is expected to be essential for the reliable production of any type of quantum chip on an industrial scale, with solid-state qubits, like superconducting or spin qubits, as pioneers.
Recently, OrangeQS extended its seed round to €15 million with additional backing from the European Innovation Council Fund. An extension of the first closing of the round in June 2025, led by Icecat Capital. The round was explicitly framed as enabling “Quantum Moore’s Law” scaling for quantum chips. The investment accelerates development of its automated testing systems and helps to expand its partnerships across the quantum manufacturing ecosystem. The quantum industry has entered a phase where hardware performance is no longer the only focus. The throughput of production, testing and validation at an industrial scale are becoming decisive factors. OrangeQS is positioning itself exactly at that pivotal role in the value chain.
The timing of the funding and partnerships is significant when viewed against the broader landscape of quantum modalities. Superconducting circuits, trapped ions, neutral atoms, and photonic platforms are all advancing along different scaling paths. Yet across all of them, one shared constraint is emerging. As qubit counts grow, chip characterization and process reliability testing become industrial bottlenecks. OrangeQS explicitly targets that bottleneck with solutions to reduce test cycles from weeks to days and to enable high-volume validation.
From a modality perspective, this is strategically neutral infrastructure. Superconducting qubit platforms, which currently dominate commercial gate-based systems, require rapid iteration of chip designs and tight process control. Trapped-ion and neutral-atom architectures also depend on precision validation as they scale toward error correction. In general, approaches that aim for semiconductor-style manufacturability, particularly benefit from standardized, automated testing pipelines, matching the established logic of large-scale silicon production.
OrangeQS’s flagship system, OrangeQS MAX, is already described as supporting large quantum chips with 100 or more qubits. This positions it as a tool for industrial-scale characterization rather than small laboratory setups.
Alongside hardware, the company has also published a new white paper outlining a framework for utility-grade quantum chip testing and what it calls future “dark quantum foundries.” The document was released ahead of the ISIG Quantum Computing Infrastructure Summit 2026 and signals an ambition to define standards for validation in high-volume quantum manufacturing. The white paper and the extended funding round together suggest that OrangeQS sees testing as the next layer of industrial competition. If quantum chip deployment is to move from bespoke experiments to standardized production, measurement and verification must scale alongside qubits themselves.
The company’s positioning is pragmatic. Instead of choosing a winner among quantum architectures, it builds infrastructure that serves all of them. With extra focus on the modalities that require scaling for industrial production. That approach reduces technological risk. It also aligns with the reality that fault-tolerant quantum computing will depend not only on qubit physics but also on repeatable manufacturing, validation, and quality control. In that sense, the company’s thesis is less about which modality wins, and more about enabling whichever modality reaches industrial maturity first. Currently, the focus is on superconducting and spin qubit modalities as these are most compatible with current semicon fabrication processes. Which doesn’t mean that other modalities will not be accommodated if industrial scaling comes into scope. It’s expected that with industrial scaling, the need for testing of chip components – chiplets – becomes a necessary specialty quickly. Another pivotal step in the journey to quantum maturity.
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