Multiverse Computing co-founders Enrique Lizaso Olmos, Samuel Mugel, Román Orús, Alfonso Rubio | Image credit: Multiverse Computing
Pais Vasco, Spain-based Multiverse Computing, the first quantum computing startup dedicated to finance, announced that it has raised €10M in its Seed round of funding.
The current round was led by JME Ventures. The investment also saw participation from Quantonation, EASO Ventures, Inveready, CLAVE Capital (Mondragón Fondo de Promoción), Ikerlan, LKS, Penja Strategy, Seed Gipuzkoa, and Ezten Venture Capital Fund.
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Capital utilisation
The funds will help the company in its growth and globalisation strategy and to continue advancing its technology and marketing, according to Enrique Lizaso, Ph.D., co-founder, and CEO of Multiverse Computing.
Lizaso says, “We are keenly focused on leveraging the most advanced quantum devices available now to deliver near-term value for the financial sector. We believe Multiverse Computing will be a global leader in the quantum computing industry and expect to have an annual revenue close to €100M by 2027 with a staff of 100 people.”
Besides its financial industry focus, the capital will also help the company to enter new markets such as energy, mobility, and smart manufacturing where it already works with reference customers.
The funds will also help the company increase its global expansion which currently includes a fully operational office in Toronto and two recent office openings in Paris and Munich.
Román Orús, Ph.D., co-founder of the company and Chief Scientific Officer, adds that one of the key factors in the success of a knowledge-based company like Multiverse is its ability to attract global talent. “At the moment, we have a team of 30 people of 10 different nationalities, many with Ph.D. degrees,” he said.
By the end of the year, the company expects to have at least 24 quantum algorithm international patents with an aim to grow it to over 150 in the coming years.
Quantum-inspired toolbox for finance
Founded in 2019 by Alfonso Rubio Manzanares, Enrique Lizaso Olmos, Román Orús, and Samuel Mugel, Multiverse Computing provides software for companies from the financial industry to help them gain an edge with quantum computing.
The company combines quantum and quantum-inspired solutions to address complex open problems in finance by demonstrating industry use cases to bring value to financial institutions today.
Multiverse Computing’s flagship product Singularity enables financial professionals to run efficient quantum algorithms on any quantum computer from a simple spreadsheet to address highly complex problems – such as portfolio optimisation and fraud detection – without requiring any knowledge of quantum computers.
Multiverse Computing was founded with the help of the Basque Government-Spri and the Provincial Council of Guipuzkoa through the Txekintek / Ekintzaile program. The startup also had support from accelerators and technology centers such as the Donostia International Physics Centre (DIPC) and international institutions such as Toronto’s Creative Destruction Lab (CDL).
The startup collaborates with technology partners in quantum computing such as IBM, Microsoft, Xanadu, D-Wave, IonQ, Rigetti, Pasqal, Alpine, Quantum Technologies, Strangeworks, Orca, Amazon AWS, and Fujitsu, among others. It is also collaborating with several large financial institutions to explore the potential of quantum computing.
Interestingly, the company’s staff have extensive knowledge of financial issues and also speak 15 different languages, thereby understanding and solving most of their clients’ problems in their own language.
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