NetherlandsMatthijs Rijlaarsdam
Co-Founder & CEO
Rijlaarsdam is a computer scientist who completed his thesis on quantum computer simulation in the Elkouss group at QuTech, TU Delft. He co-founded QuantWare in 2021 as a commercial spinout from QuTech to become the world's first commercial supplier of superconducting quantum processors. Under his leadership QuantWare has shipped processors to more than 50 customers across 20 countries, and in May 2026 raised $178 million to develop VIO-40K — a 3D chip architecture targeting 10,000-qubit processors — the largest private funding round for a dedicated quantum processor company at the time.