ELMSFORD, N.Y.– Seeqc, the Digital Quantum Computing company, today announced that LG Technology Ventures, an investment arm of the South Korean conglomerate LG Group, is participating in its $22.4 million Series A round.
The Series A round was initially announced in September 2020 and was led by the EQT Ventures fund, one of the largest venture capital funds in Europe. The round also includes an investment from M Ventures, the strategic, corporate venture capital arm of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany.
Seeqc’s platform combines classical and quantum computing, forming an all-digital architecture to address the efficiency, stability and cost issues that often plague quantum computing systems using traditional CMOS-based analog, microwave control infrastructure. The quantum computing platform is designed to scale to meet the needs of diverse business applications.
“Our strategic investment in Seeqc’s quantum computing platform is an important step in bringing the promise of quantum computing to LG’s global industrial portfolio,” said Dong-Su Kim, CEO of LG Technology Ventures. “We believe now is a crucial moment in the commercialization of quantum technologies and we see Seeqc’s platform as a truly scalable solution for the next generation of high-value technological challenges.”
Seeqc will join the portfolio companies in LG Technology Ventures’ over $400 million fund supporting early-stage information technology, automotive, manufacturing, life-sciences, energy, and advanced materials companies.
“The investment from LG Technology Ventures brings us closer to industrial-grade quantum computing on the global manufacturing stage. Through our unique system-on-a-chip architecture and digital approach, we’re developing quantum applications that will yield significant and tangible results in 3-5 years,” John Levy, co-founder and CEO of Seeqc said.
LG Technology Ventures’ evaluated numerous companies over the course of eighteen months before choosing to invest in Seeqc.
“Soon after we began to evaluate and identify a quantum computing solution, it became clear how valuable Seeqc’s platform would be to LG’s entire ecosystem of application developers in the near-term,” said Michael Falcon, managing director at LG Technology Ventures. “We want a solution that will work across multiple LG group companies and is adaptable enough to accommodate all of our R&D initiatives, and Seeqc fit the bill.”
The Series A funding follows a $6.8 million seed round by BlueYard Capital, Cambium, NewLab and the Partnership Fund for New York City. This investment brings Seeqc’s total venture funding to over $29 million.
