Quantum Brilliance — vendor dossier

Quantum Brilliance

Quantum computers
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Australian-German quantum-computing company spun out of the Australian National University (ANU) in 2019. Builds nitrogen-vacancy (NV) colour- centre processors in synthetic diamond that operate at room temperature, removing the dilution-refrigerator footprint and enabling rack-mount or edge-deployable quantum accelerators. European headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany. Flagship deployment is the on-premises NV diamond accelerator at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Perth, described by the company as the first room-temperature quantum computer installed at a major HPC facility (2022). Sells the Qristal software development kit alongside the diamond processor module.

HQ
Canberra, Australia
Founded
2019
Status
private
Last verified
Wed May 20 2026 08:00:00 GMT+0800 (Singapore Standard Time)

Timeline

20192020202120222023202420252026202720282029today
2019
Founded as ANU spin-out by Andrew Horsley, Marcus Doherty, and team
2022-03
Commercialisation partner in the BMBF-funded "Spinning" project (>EUR 16M) — spin-photon-based diamond quantum computer
2022
"Deutsche Brilliance" (DE-Brill) joint research project announced — EUR 19.9M / USD 22.5M with Fraunhofer IAF and the University of Ulm to address fabrication / scaling challenges of diamond quantum computers by 2025; Stuttgart European HQ opened
2022
First on-premises room-temperature quantum accelerator installed at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre (Perth) — announced by the company as the first such deployment at a major HPC facility
2025-01
USD 20M Series A closed with Main Sequence, In-Q-Tel, and Intervalley Ventures
2025-20
Successive "drops" of increasing qubit-count NV diamond chips as stepping-stones toward a 2027 prototype
2027
Prototype-scale room-temperature NV diamond quantum accelerator
shipped milestone public roadmap

Current flagship

Quantum Brilliance diamond accelerator — room-temperature NV diamond, rack-mount form factor

Milestones

  1. 2025-01
    USD 20M Series A closed with Main Sequence, In-Q-Tel, and Intervalley Ventures
    Quantum computers press source ↗
  2. 2022-03
    Commercialisation partner in the BMBF-funded "Spinning" project (>EUR 16M) — spin-photon-based diamond quantum computer
    Quantum computers press source ↗
  3. 2022
    "Deutsche Brilliance" (DE-Brill) joint research project announced — EUR 19.9M / USD 22.5M with Fraunhofer IAF and the University of Ulm to address fabrication / scaling challenges of diamond quantum computers by 2025; Stuttgart European HQ opened
    Quantum computers press source ↗
  4. 2022
    First on-premises room-temperature quantum accelerator installed at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre (Perth) — announced by the company as the first such deployment at a major HPC facility
    Quantum computers press source ↗
  5. 2019
    Founded as ANU spin-out by Andrew Horsley, Marcus Doherty, and team
    Quantum computers web source ↗

Roadmap

  • 2025-2026 Successive "drops" of increasing qubit-count NV diamond chips as stepping-stones toward a 2027 prototype source ↗
  • 2027 Prototype-scale room-temperature NV diamond quantum accelerator source ↗

Capability details

Quantum computing

Qubit type
nv
Physical qubits
—
Logical qubits
0
1Q gate fidelity
—
2Q gate fidelity
—
T₁
—
T₂
—
EC code
—
Connectivity
nearest-neighbour
10 unverified fields
  • modalities.qc.physical_qubits_current
  • modalities.qc.one_q_fidelity
  • modalities.qc.two_q_fidelity
  • modalities.qc.coherence_t1_ms
  • modalities.qc.coherence_t2_ms
  • modalities.qc.gate_set
  • modalities.qc.connectivity — NV-centre devices are typically nearest-neighbour electron-spin / nuclear-spin clusters; Quantum Brilliance's per-chip qubit layout not specified in a peer-reviewed reference checked here.
  • shareholders
  • revenue
  • headcount

People

  • Mark Luo — CEO (since 2019) ↗
  • Andrew Horsley — Co-founder & Managing Director (Germany) (since 2019) ↗
  • Marcus Doherty — Co-founder & Chief Scientist (since 2019) ↗

References