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Wednesday, March 04 2020 - 07:08
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Cambridge Quantum Computing and Honeywell Announce New Investment and Strengthened Partnership
CAMBRIDGE, England, Mar. 4, 2020 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/--

Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) announced today that Honeywell Ventures has 
deepened its collaboration with CQC by investing in the company. The investment 
comes after a significant period of collaboration between CQC and the quantum 
computing division of Honeywell, which included CQC becoming Honeywell's first 
beta user. 

Ilyas Khan, CEO of CQC said: "We are excited to welcome Honeywell Ventures as a 
significant investor in CQC. The investment comes after a period of very close 
working cooperation, during which we have come to recognise the world class 
leading quantum computer that Honeywell has developed. It may well be one of 
the technology world's best kept secrets for over a generation."

He added: "At CQC, we are committed to using the most advanced tools and 
devices to develop the world's leading quantum applications and products. Our 
cutting-edge software complements Honeywell's innovative quantum technology and 
this investment and partnership is of real significance in the overall 
development of quantum computers and their real-world impact on corporations 
and governments globally."  

Murray Grainger, Managing Director and Head of Honeywell Ventures, said: 
"Honeywell Ventures is committed to investing in the development of a quantum 
ecosystem and CQC is a world-leading player in the early evolution of what we 
believe will be a valuable and important sector that is strategic to many 
organizations across a variety of verticals."

In addition to announcing Honeywell Ventures' investment in CQC, Honeywell 
Quantum Systems (HQS) has published a scientific paper that provides details 
about the architecture of their QCCD (quantum charge-coupled device) trapped 
ion quantum processor that will be the world's most powerful quantum computer 
when it is released. CQC are proud and honoured to have been beta users of the 
HQS device that has led to this important scientific and technical achievement. 
The scientific paper can be accessed via the following link :

https://www.honeywell.com/content/dam/honeywell/files/Beta_10_Quantum_3_3_2020.pdf


About CQC

Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) is a world-leading quantum computing software 
company with over 60 scientists across offices in Cambridge (UK), London, San 
Francisco, Washington, DC and Tokyo. CQC builds tools for the commercialisation 
of quantum technologies that will have a profound global impact. CQC combines 
expertise in quantum software, specifically a quantum development platform 
(t|ket>(TM)), enterprise applications in the area of quantum chemistry (EUMEN), 
quantum machine learning (QML), quantum natural language processing (QNLP) and 
quantum augmented cybersecurity (IronBridg(TM). For more information about CQC, 
visit www.cambridgequantum.com

About Honeywell Ventures 

Honeywell Ventures is the strategic venture capital arm of Honeywell, based in 
Menlo Park, CA. The firm seeks to invest in early-stage high-growth companies 
from around the world that have emerging and disruptive technologies. It 
concentrates on companies that could scale faster with access to Honeywell 
customers, channels, intellectual property, advanced manufacturing capabilities 
and global presence.

Contact: press@cambridgequantum.com 

Source: Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC)