Haiqu, which develops software that optimizes quantum hardware to run larger, more efficient, and commercially relevant applications, has secured an $11 million in a seed round led by Primary Venture Partners.
- Founded in 2022 by Richard Givhan and Mykola Maksymenko, Haiqu is a New York City-based quantum software startup with a global team spanning the US, Canada, Ukraine, the UK, the EU, and Singapore.
- The company develops a hardware-aware operating system for quantum computers that optimizes existing hardware through circuit optimization, error mitigation, and algorithmic orchestration, enabling larger and more complex quantum applications to run with fewer resources.
- Haiqu’s platform integrates with different quantum devices, manages data-loading and compression, and provides middleware that improves noise resilience and computational efficiency.
- By continuously translating high-level quantum programs into hardware-optimized instructions, the system allows organisations to run near-term, commercially relevant applications in fields such as finance, life sciences, aviation, and energy, despite current hardware limitations.
- In 2025, Haiqu secured $1.6 million for its open-source Compilation Open Design (CODE) project to advance quantum research and develop the Catalyst compiler for practical applications.
Details of the deal
- The seed round saw support from Primary Venture Partners, Qudit Investments, Alumni Ventures, Collaborative Fund, Silicon Roundabout Ventures, Angel One Fund, Toyota Ventures, and Mac Venture Capital.
"The world will soon realize that useful applications will rely on production-ready software systems which Haiqu has quietly been building. They are already running quantum machine learning at scale over high dimensional data, and that is just one application they support. We are excited by their progress," claims Jim Adler, founder and general partner at Toyota Ventures.
- Haiqu will use the fresh $11 million seed capital to accelerate the launch of its hardware-aware quantum operating system, expand its global team, and continue validating near-term quantum use cases across industries like finance, healthcare, aviation, and life sciences.
