Hefei Unitary Quantum Technology Co., Ltd. (“Unitary Quantum”) has recently closed its Series A financing worth hundreds of millions of RMB. This round is led by Shenzhen Venture Capital Group. Co-investors include Social Security Fund Bay Area Science and Technology Innovation Equity Investment Fund (Shenzhen) Partnership (Limited Partnership) and Shenzhen Innovation Capital Investment Co., Ltd. Follow-on investors cover a host of renowned institutions, namely GF Xinde Investment, Jingming Capital, Puhua Capital, Qifu Capital, Xingtai Capital, Dachen Wisdom Capital, Huakong Fund, Shoucheng Holdings (0697.HK), GCL Energy Technology, Haojun Investment, Kailian Capital, Xineng Venture Capital, Zongwei China, among others. The proceeds will be mainly deployed to expedite R&D breakthroughs targeting quantum advantage and quantum error correction, and continuously strengthen the company’s full?stack capabilities along the QCCD technology roadmap.

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This Series A financing comes less than four months after the closing of its Pre-A round. Concurrent investments from state-led patient capital of the National Social Security Fund, industrial players from listed enterprises, and top-tier market-oriented venture capital firms not only reflect high market recognition of Unitary Quantum’s technical strengths and commercial prospects, but also signal that China’s ion?trap quantum computing sector is entering an unprecedented period of strategic opportunities.

At a critical juncture when the global quantum computing industry is rapidly advancing toward practicality and large-scale deployment, Quantinuum, the global leader in ion?trap quantum computing, successfully debuted on the NASDAQ in June 2026, making it the world’s first full-stack quantum-computing enterprise to go public on mainstream capital markets. Its latest-generation Helios system delivers 98 physical qubits with 99.921% two?qubit gate fidelity. It has also pioneered 48 logical qubits in commercial systems, achieving a physical?to?logical qubit overhead ratio of 2:1, marking a new milestone for quantum error-correction technologies.

As China’s leading enterprise pursuing the QCCD-based ion-trap quantum computing roadmap, Unitary Quantum consistently benchmarks against global cutting?edge standards. Targeting quantum advantage and quantum error correction, it keeps accelerating core-technology R&D. In early 2026, the company publicly announced its successful passing of the Quantum Volume (QV) 32 benchmark test. Its ion?trap quantum computing system attained new heights in comprehensive performance metrics including qubit count, gate fidelity, connectivity and circuit computation, putting its overall system performance among the world’s advanced ranks. In quantum error correction — the pivotal field determining the real?world viability of quantum computing — drawing on its self?developed chip designs and system architectures, Unitary Quantum is speeding up the transition from physical qubits to logical qubits. It strives to narrow gaps against world?class benchmarks and secure strategic advantages for China in the global quantum error?correction race.

Undertaking major special projects of Anhui Province, Unitary Quantum has independently designed and fabricated ion-trap quantum computing chips with world-class radio-frequency quality factors. It has built and iterated multiple chip-based ion-trap quantum computers, becoming China’s first quantum-computing firm to realize cryogenic ion trapping and ion transport. Meanwhile, the company drives collaborative R&D across upstream and downstream industrial chains to break key technical bottlenecks. It has developed major products such as ultra-low-vibration cryostat systems to fill domestic technical gaps. It also deepens science-and-technology cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative, rolling out core quantum-computing products overseas to extend the benefits of cutting-edge technologies to more regions.

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Spun off from the research team led by Academician Guo Guangcan at the University of Science and Technology of China, Unitary Quantum has operated for three full years and grown into one of China’s most innovative and talent?dense quantum?computing enterprises. The company boasts 7 professors/research fellows and over 20 PhDs/post?docs. R&D staff account for more than 70% of total headcount, among whom 80% hold master’s or doctoral degrees, with an average employee age below 30. This high?density talent pool fuels sustained technical innovation. It has obtained multiple honors including High-Tech Enterprise, Anhui Provincial Specialized, Refined, Differential & Innovative SME, and Anhui Provincial Post-Doctoral Research Workstation, with its remarkable growth widely acknowledged.

While consolidating its technical foundation, Unitary Quantum keeps scaling up infrastructure investment. This year, the company added 1,500 square meters of new R&D laboratories to underpin core quantum-computing research and industrialization. Following this financing round, the capital will focus on advancing the QCCD roadmap toward quantum advantage and quantum error correction. It will further enhance full-stack capabilities spanning chip design, system integration and software algorithms, and drive ion-trap quantum computing out of laboratories toward broader real-world application scenarios.

Quantum computing constitutes a core enabler for future computational paradigm shifts. Thanks to ultra-high fidelity and full connectivity, the QCCD ion-trap approach is widely recognized within the industry as one of the most promising paths toward large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computing. Seizing this opportunity, Unitary Quantum will uphold long-term value, deepen its commitment to the QCCD technical roadmap, secure a core position in the global quantum-computing industry, and deliver solid contributions to China’s self-reliance and self-improvement in quantum science and technology.

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