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ZuriQ raises $25.5M led by Quantonation to build 2D trapped-ion quantum chips where qubits grow with chip area, after demoing the largest 2D ion array yet.
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ZuriQ, a quantum computing company spun out of ETH Zürich, has raised a $25.5 million seed round led by Quantonation, with participation from Forward.one, Extantia, Firgun Ventures and all previous investors, on top of a $4.2 million pre-seed closed in January 2025. Total funding stands at $29.7 million. The company builds trapped-ion processors that are natively two-dimensional, holding ions with a static magnetic field through Penning micro-traps instead of the oscillating fields that confine every incumbent design to one-dimensional chains. In eighteen months it has grown from four people to eighteen, demonstrated a 3x3 array of nine individually controlled ions, the largest 2D trapped-ion array of its kind, and fabricated the chips behind it with Infineon. The capital funds hiring, research and chip fabrication toward hundreds of qubits on a single chip. Q: How much did ZuriQ raise? ZuriQ raised $25.5 million in seed funding announced July 28, 2026, taking total funding to $29.7 million including its $4.2 million pre-seed from January 2025. Q: Who invested in ZuriQ's seed round? Quantonation led the round, joined by Forward.one, Extantia, Firgun Ventures and all previous investors, including pre-seed lead Founderful alongside SquareOne, First Momentum Ventures, OnSight Ventures and QAI Ventures. Q: What does ZuriQ do, in simple terms? ZuriQ builds quantum computer chips where the qubits, which are single charged atoms, sit on a flat surface like pieces on a chessboard instead of in a single-file line. That lets the qubit count grow with the size of the chip. The company was spun out of ETH Zürich in 2024 by Dr. Pavel Hrmo, Dr. Tobias Sägesser and Dr. Shreyans Jain. Q: What has ZuriQ demonstrated? A working demonstration of nine individually controlled atoms in a 3x3 grid, the largest two-dimensional trapped-ion array of its kind, built with ETH Zürich researchers on chips manufactured by Infineon. Q: How is ZuriQ different from IonQ and Quantinuum? IonQ and Quantinuum hold their atoms in one-dimensional lines connected through complex junctions. ZuriQ removes the junctions entirely, because its atoms slide freely across a chip surface, and the company is targeting thousands of qubits on a single chip.