OptQC押注室温量子计算，NTT领投其70亿日元A2轮

做的是什么生意

OptQC builds optical quantum computers that operate at room temperature and atmospheric pressure, commercializing more than 25 years of photonic research from the University of Tokyo's Furusawa Laboratory.

启动资金：JPY 650M seed (January 2025), JPY 1.5B Series A1 (October 2025), and a JPY 7.0B Series A2 (August 2026) led by NTT with 20 other corporate and VC investors; total equity JPY 9.15B (~US$61M) and more than JPY 20B (~US$133M) including public R&D grants.

起因

OptQC was founded on September 2, 2024 by researchers from the University of Tokyo's Furusawa Laboratory, which had spent more than 25 years on optical quantum technology; CEO Kan Takase, a former UTokyo assistant professor, leads the company. Its founding bet was that photons — not cryogenic superconducting circuits — are the practical route to a deployable, fault-tolerant quantum computer.

经过

OptQC raised a JPY 650M seed in January 2025, a JPY 1.5B Series A1 in October 2025, and on August 25, 2026 announced a JPY 7.0B (~US$47M) Series A2 led by NTT with 20 other investors from telecom, electronics, aerospace, finance and real estate — following an NTT capital and business alliance signed August 3. In July 2026 the company unveiled MoQuren, its first commercial demonstration system, at AIST's G-QuAT center; it is now operational, a step the company calls its move from laboratory results to a running machine. The next processor targets roughly 10,000 qubits and 100x the current machine's performance while keeping room-temperature, atmospheric-pressure operation; the roadmap is embedded in NEDO's post-5G program and JST's Moonshot Goal 6.

结果

Independent and scaling: with MoQuren running at AIST, OptQC is developing the successor 10,000-qubit processor, hiring globally, and building joint business initiatives with its 21 corporate investors under an NTT-led alliance and more than JPY 20B in total funding.

可借鉴之处

选择能消除客户约束的物理方案：室温光子让OptQC避开了使其他量子机器无法进入普通数据中心的低温管道。