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Technology: Record financing for German quantum start-up

Quint from Munich collects around nine million euros. The company wants to improve error correction with a new chip architecture - one of the biggest cost drivers in quantum computing.

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Technology: Record financing for German quantum start-up

German quantum startup Quint has secured 9.1 million euros in its first funding round, a record amount for a German company in this field at this early stage. The funding comes about a year after the company's founding. Quint aims to address a major challenge in quantum computing: reducing the high number of errors made by quantum computers. The startup's founders include Christopher Eichler and Michael Hartmann, who previously worked on Google's quantum team.

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