Q.ANT (Series A)
Funding Details
Awarder
SemiNews
Date Award
October 30, 2025
Vertical
Deep Tech / Photonic Computing
Funding URL
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Funding Amount
$80,000,000
Company Info
Founding Year
2018
Traction
Q.ANT has brought to market the world’s first commercial photonic processor for real-world AI and HPC workloads and is currently shipping its Native Processing Servers to selected partners.
Founders
Dr. Michael Förtsch
Market
Artificial Intelligence and High-Performance Computing
Location
Stuttgart, Germany
Coinvestors
Cherry Ventures, UVC Partners, imec.xpand, L-Bank, Verve Ventures, Grazia Equity, EXF Alpha of Venionaire Capital, LEA Partners, Onsight Ventures, TRUMPF
Company Description

Q.ANT is a photonic deep-tech scale-up developing photonic processing solutions that compute natively with light and deliver a scalable alternative to transistor-based systems. Its Light Empowered Native Arithmetic (LENA) architecture delivers analog co-processing power optimized for complex computation and enabling energy-efficient performance for next-generation AI and HPC applications.

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