Pasqal
Pasqal is a Neutral-Atom Qubits company founded in 2019 and based in Massy, France. It has raised $497M in total funding, most recently an IPO in 2026 at a $2B valuation.
Pasqal was founded in 2019 in Massy, France, by co-founders including Alain Aspect (2022 Nobel Prize in Physics), Georges-Olivier Reymond, and Antoine Browaeys. The company manufactures neutral-atom quantum processing units (QPUs) arranged in 2D arrays of up to 200+ qubits, with its Orion Gamma generation delivering 140+ physical qubits in 2025. Systems are deployed at HPC centers including CINECA (Bologna) and Saudi Aramco (Dhahran). Pasqal's Pulser software framework, open-source and Python-based, enables pulse-level programming of its hardware. The company went public via SPAC in August 2026 at a $2 billion valuation, raising $360 million and bringing total capitalization to $497 million. As of H1 2026, Pasqal held €312.9 million post-IPO cash and reported 14% revenue growth with quantum services revenue growing 34%.
Pasqal is one of the few neutral-atom quantum computing platforms deployed across international HPC infrastructure and accessible via Microsoft Azure Quantum, positioning it as a key implementation of an alternative to superconducting and ion-trap approaches. The company's August 2026 Nasdaq listing and €312.9 million cash position reflect institutional confidence in neutral-atom quantum viability. Recent partnerships with LG CNS and USA Rare Earth signal enterprise integration pathways, while its academic roots and open-source software (Pulser) establish it as a reference architecture within the quantum research community.
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