Qoro has announced the close of its pre-seed funding round, securing $750,000 USD to build the missing software layer for hybrid quantum-classical computing. The round includes backing from UK-based Ada Ventures, European early-stage investor Superangels Venture Fund, and the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago, Illinois.
While the tech industry waits for fully functioning quantum computers to mature, enterprises are attempting to combine traditional processors (CPUs and GPUs) with early quantum hardware to solve massive problems today. However, making these fragmented systems work together currently requires a team of PhDs, months of effort, and roughly 150,000 lines of custom integration code. Qoro’s new software stack reduces that integration burden to just 20 lines of code, and turns months of effort into weeks, by effectively treating a complex network of different computers as one logical machine.
Dan Holme, CEO of Qoro Quantum, said:
“While the broader industry is racing to build physical quantum hardware, we are focused on the immediate software bottleneck required to actually use those machines. This initial $750 k close provides us with the agility to make critical engineering hires, match funds for our grant projects, and accelerate the rollout of our products. This is a big vote of confidence for us as we prepare for our main priced round later this year.”
Matt Penneycard, Managing Partner at Ada Ventures, commented:
“The AI infrastructure race is white-hot, but raw compute alone isn’t enough – you need the orchestration layer that makes it deployable. Anyscale proved this for classical AI: Ray became the connective tissue that let companies run distributed workloads across heterogeneous compute without drowning in infrastructure complexity. Qoro is building the equivalent for quantum. Dan and Stephen came out of Cisco with the networking DNA to see exactly what's missing – a broker layer that makes quantum and hybrid compute actually usable across real-world enterprises. This is the Anyscale moment for quantum, and we wanted to be in early.”
Marc Schuler, Angel Investor at Scrape Ventures (part of Superangels), added:
“What sets Qoro apart is its pragmatic approach to scale. Typically, quantum jobs are queued sequentially. However, Qoro delivers true, multilayered parallelisation across heterogeneous hardware. Scrape Ventures and the superangels are thrilled to support the founders’ mission to make quantum-classical computing more practically deployable today.”
Shyama Majumdar, Senior Director, Accelerators and Investments at Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, said:
“Qoro stood out in the Duality program for solving a problem every quantum company faces, but few are building for. Our pre-seed investment backs the infrastructure layer that will connect quantum hardware to real enterprise workloads at scale.”