Haiqu, a San Francisco, CA-based startup building software for quantum processors, raised $4M in Pre-Seed funding.
The round was led by MaC Venture Capital, with participation from Toyota Ventures, SOMA capital, u.ventures, SID Venture Partners, and Roosh Ventures. Other investors included Paul Holland, Alexi Kirilenko, and Gordy Holterman.
The company intends to use the funds to drive its research and development efforts and the establishment of strategic partnerships to bring their product to market.
Led by CEO Richard Givhan and CTO Mykola Maksymenko, Haiqu is a quantum computing software startup focused on developing enabling technology enhancing the performance of modern quantum hardware. Their software addresses the adoption bottlenecks precluding scalable quantum applications and enables a broader set of practical use-cases in finance, life sciences, mobility and other domains.
The startup was formed and incubated in the fall of 2022 within the Creative Destruction Lab Quantum stream in Toronto by Richard Givhan (CEO), a Stanford alum and former EIR at Mitsubishi Electric, and Mykola Maksymenko (CTO), formerly a researcher at the Max Planck Society and the Weizmann Institute of Science and head of R&D at global consultancy SoftServe Inc.
Having started as a remote collaboration of co-founders, Haiqu is growing globally via a distributed team spanning the United States, Ukraine, Canada, Germany, and Switzerland.
FinSMEs
06/06/2023