Orange QS raised €1.5M betting qubit testing is quantum's scaling bottleneck

Builds quantum chip test equipment — room-temperature stacks and proprietary software that automate qubit testing.

That the quantum industry's 'lab to fab' transition needs turnkey, automated chip testing more than it needs another qubit maker.

€1.5 million pre-seed (QDNL Participations, Cottonwood Technology Fund) plus a European Innovation Council EIC Accelerator grant

Founded in 2020 in Delft as a spinout from TNO, the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research; 17 employees with top advisors experienced at ASML and NXP.

Earlier in 2023 it launched a complete room-temperature equipment stack it says guarantees automation of quantum chip testing, supported by a suite of proprietary software libraries.

Qubit quality, consistency, decoherence and error correction all cap quantum scaling — and every one of them is gated by testing throughput.

Classical chipmaking already solved this with automated foundry test equipment; Orange QS ports that playbook to quantum, where it demands new expertise.

Selling into the supply chain instead of racing on qubits means every hardware approach remains a potential customer.

In a gold rush, sell equipment: every quantum hardware player needs faster chip testing, no matter who wins the qubit race.

As of September 2023, the pre-seed was earmarked for developing Orange QS's 'next generation' test equipment — pitched as the first turnkey solution optimized for high-speed qubit testing.