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posted by on Monday April 03 2017, @05:27PM   Printer-friendly
from the never-heard-of-him dept.

Rigetti Computing, a leading quantum computing start-up, announced it has raised $64 million in Series A and B funding.

[...] The latest round brings the total amount of venture funding raised by Rigetti to $69.2 million.

"Quantum computing will enable people to tackle a whole new set of problems that were previously unsolvable," said Chad Rigetti, founder and chief executive officer of Rigetti Computing. "This is the next generation of advanced computing technology. The potential to make a positive impact on humanity is enormous."

"We will use the funding to expand our business and engineering teams and continue to invest in infrastructure to manufacture and deploy our quantum integrated circuits," Rigetti added.

Source: http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/03/quantum-computer-startup-rigetti.html

Previously mentioned here: https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/02/10/181240


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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday April 03 2017, @06:00PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Monday April 03 2017, @06:00PM (#488280)

    > Rigetti Computing

    If you rig it wrong, it will be rickety, which doesn't matter since the whole thing was rigged...

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