Post-Quantum Crypto Startup List

Top Funded PQC Startups

1. SandboxAQ (USA, Palo Alto)

  • Total funding: $950M+ across 5 rounds
  • Latest: $450M Series E (April 2025) with investors including Google, NVIDIA, Ray Dalio, BNP Paribas, Horizon Kinetics
  • Valuation: $5.6B
  • Spun out from Alphabet in 2022

2. ID Quantique (Switzerland, Geneva)

  • $65M+ investment from SK Telecom (2018), plus additional investments from Deutsche Telecom
  • Total funding: $10.8M across 12 rounds (not including the SK Telecom investment)
  • Founded in 2001
  • Acquired by IonQ in 2025

3. Quantum Xchange (USA, Bethesda)

  • Total funding: $39.6M-$45.6M over 2 rounds
  • Series A: $13.5M (2021) at $59M post-money valuation, plus initial $10M funding

4. PQShield (UK, Oxford)

  • Series B: $37M (June 2024) led by Addition
  • Total funding: ~$37M+ (includes earlier Series A)
  • Founded in 2018

5. QuSecure (USA, San Mateo)

  • Series A: $28M total (February 2025) led by Two Bear Capital with Accenture Ventures participation
  • Founded in 2019

6. QuintessenceLabs (Australia)

  • Total funding: ~$50M over several rounds
  • Investors include Australian Government and In-Q-Tel
  • Founded in 2006

Other Notable Funded Companies

Qrypt (USA)

  • Amount not disclosed, but active in quantum-secure encryption

Post-Quantum (UK)

  • Funding amount not publicly disclosed

Crypto Quantique (UK, London)

  • Founded 2016
  • Funding amount not publicly disclosed

Quantum Dice (UK, Oxford)

  • Founded 2019
  • Funding amount not publicly disclosed

Qubitrium (Turkey)

  • €1.5M seed funding (2024)

Agnostiq (Canada, Toronto)

  • Founded 2018
  • Funding amount not publicly disclosed

Quantum Blockchains (Poland)

  • Founded 2018
  • Funding amount not publicly disclosed

Note: SandboxAQ is significantly ahead with nearly $1B in funding, though it focuses broadly on quantum AI applications beyond just PQC. The purely PQC-focused companies range from ~$10M to $50M in funding, with PQShield and QuSecure being recent well-funded entrants in the pure-play PQC space.