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QC82

QC82 announced a $1.5 million financing in January 2026 to support its laboratory, technology development and early manufacturing work in photon detection. It is a component supplier, with planned architecture claims kept separate from measured product performance.

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United States · Research reviewed 20 Oct 2026

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    Research reviewed 20 Oct 2026

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Identity & attribution
Organization record
QC82 (organization-qc82)
Recorded role
Enabling Technologies, Cloud & Infrastructure
Recorded aliases
No aliases recorded in this assessment.
Name and period
No dated name or ownership transition is recorded here. An alias is a search aid, not evidence of a legal ownership relationship.
Product scope
Photonic detection and room-temperature quantum-photonics development

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Company evidence and analysis

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QC82Photonic detection and room-temperature quantum-photonics development

Sources reviewed 20 Oct 2026. Event dates remain attached to the original evidence.

QC82 announced a $1.5 million financing in January 2026 to support its laboratory, technology development and early manufacturing work in photon detection. It is a component supplier, with planned architecture claims kept separate from measured product performance.

Photon detection is an especially useful component category because its requirements depend strongly on the experiment. Efficiency, noise, timing and the ability to distinguish photon numbers can matter in different combinations. A room-temperature operating claim may change deployment requirements, but it does not automatically establish suitability for every photonic architecture. QC82’s first card should identify exactly which detector behavior is demonstrated and which is a development target. It should also state the optical conditions used to obtain the specification and the external equipment needed to reproduce it. The strongest next evidence would be an independently operated component with a complete characterization and a customer-defined acceptance criterion. That would allow readers to compare its actual use case with alternatives without elevating a financing or architecture announcement into proof of a finished quantum computer. An unassessed entry is useful now if it makes those boundaries explicit.

For a reader evaluating QC82, the practical question is what the detector adds to a quantum-photonics experiment under its actual operating conditions. A useful next evidence check is specific: require efficiency, dark counts, timing jitter and saturation behavior at the same temperature and wavelength. A room-temperature design objective does not demonstrate detector quality or complete room-temperature quantum computation. These are proposed tests for judging a later update, not claims that the company has already passed them.

Security status: No public security verified in reviewed material; directory/watch profile only

Facts, comparisons and next evidence

At a glance

  • label
    Quantum role
    value
    Photonic detection development
  • label
    Evidence date
    value
    2026-01-29
  • label
    Assessment action
    value
    Unassessed inclusion candidate

Dated milestones

  • date
    2026-01-29
    Date scope
    source publication date; unknown if undated
    event
    Pre-seed financing announced
    status
    Published primary evidence; retain the narrower maturity statement
    what it does not establish
    A room-temperature design objective does not demonstrate detector quality or complete room-temperature quantum computation.

Quantum role

layer
Photonic detection development
Question
What the detector adds to a quantum-photonics experiment under its actual operating conditions.

Questions for comparison

  • Detection efficiency/noise at one operating point
  • Timing and photon-number capability
  • Operating environment and customer acceptance

Related approaches

  • name
    Sparrow Quantum
    relationship
    Proposed comparison of relevant dimensions; not a claim of equivalent products or a ranking
    dimensions
    • Detection efficiency/noise at one operating point
    • Timing and photon-number capability
    • Operating environment and customer acceptance
  • name
    Icarus Quantum
    relationship
    Proposed comparison of relevant dimensions; not a claim of equivalent products or a ranking
    dimensions
    • Detection efficiency/noise at one operating point
    • Timing and photon-number capability
    • Operating environment and customer acceptance

Limits and missing evidence

  • A room-temperature design objective does not demonstrate detector quality or complete room-temperature quantum computation.
  • Registered legal identity
  • Complete independently reviewed detector characterization
  • Product availability and accepted customer use

What would change this assessment

trigger
Require efficiency, dark counts, timing jitter and saturation behavior at the same temperature and wavelength.
Evidence needed
Dated primary technical report, product specification or customer/issuer disclosure directly answering the test.
Test
Identify the configuration, time boundary and measured outcome; retain unsuccessful attempts and stated limitations.
Limit
A room-temperature design objective does not demonstrate detector quality or complete room-temperature quantum computation.

A starting question

question
Why can a detector determine the success of a photonic experiment?
answer
The experiment needs a trustworthy record of what arrived and when. Missed events, false events or insufficient resolution can change the usable result. A detector should be compared against the specific protocol’s requirements, not one isolated specification.
Original sources and scope
  1. QC82 closes financing ↗Source dated 29 Jan 2026

    Article dated Jan30, body Jan29. $1.5m financing; laboratory and early manufacturing are development activities.

QC82Private industry context; no public security added

Sources reviewed 20 Oct 2026. Event dates remain attached to the original evidence.

Announced or reported: QC82 announced $1.5 million to support technical development, testing infrastructure and early manufacturing.

Still conditional: A later priced round was prospective in the announcement; no completion or valuation is inferred.

QC82’s watch record should focus on the conversion from laboratory capability to a component that an outside buyer can qualify. For early hardware suppliers, test equipment and characterization procedures can be as consequential as production tools because they define what a shipped unit actually guarantees. The next milestones are therefore a complete component specification, reproducible performance across units and customer acceptance under stated optical conditions. Funding should be recorded by instrument and close date when disclosed; a planned future round remains a separate field. The business evidence will become stronger if product measurements show consistency and if customers choose repeat purchases after evaluation. Until then, the profile is a private supplier watch entry with technical and commercial questions, not an implied public investment opportunity.

Use funding as a development milestone and ask which detector specification becomes independently testable next. The concrete next evidence is: a dated detector datasheet or paper with operating conditions and prototype-to-product status. Early funding and product ambitions provide no reliable revenue run rate or qualified manufacturing yield. This watch record should change when that evidence changes, with the original event and reporting period preserved so readers can distinguish a new outcome from a refreshed page.

Facts, comparisons and next evidence

At a glance

  • label
    Commercial evidence stage
    value
    Early detector development
  • label
    Catalyst date
    value
    2026-01-29
  • label
    Security treatment
    value
    Private/industry watch; no verified public security

Dated milestones

  • date
    2026-01-29
    event
    Early financing and laboratory build-out
    status
    Early detector development
    Remaining condition
    See this card’s remaining-condition panel for the complete unresolved scope.

Cash and revenue boundary

Question
Use funding as a development milestone and ask which detector specification becomes independently testable next.
risk
Early funding and product ambitions provide no reliable revenue run rate or qualified manufacturing yield.
realized or announced
See this card’s announced-fact panel; the complete source-backed state is recorded there once.
still conditional
See this card’s remaining-condition panel; keep its qualifications attached to the fact.

What would change this assessment

Evidence needed
A dated detector datasheet or paper with operating conditions and prototype-to-product status.
Test
Use funding as a development milestone and ask which detector specification becomes independently testable next.
Limit
Early funding and product ambitions provide no reliable revenue run rate or qualified manufacturing yield.

Basis for comparison

dimensions
  • Efficiency
  • dark counts
  • timing and validation cost
rule
Compare the same period, currency, instrument or contract status. Unknown values stay blank; no cross-company score is supplied.

Limits and missing evidence

  • Early funding and product ambitions provide no reliable revenue run rate or qualified manufacturing yield.
  • Does the detector meet the customer’s complete protocol requirements?
  • Is the next financing still planned rather than closed?

Measures to follow

  • Complete detector characterization
  • Unit-to-unit acceptance consistency
  • Evaluation-to-repeat-purchase progression

Documents still needed

  • Verified registered entity
  • Product specification and availability
  • Actual later financing close if announced

Reporting currency

USD
Original sources and scope
  1. QC82 closes financing ↗Source dated 29 Jan 2026

    Article dated Jan30, body Jan29. $1.5m financing; laboratory and early manufacturing are development activities.

TECHNOLOGY & ACCESS

What it does. Where it fits.

Photonic detection and room-temperature quantum-photonics development

Who should look closer

What the detector adds to a quantum-photonics experiment under its actual operating conditions.

QubitWire’s editorial assessment of practical fit.

Company and product information

See the official source for current contact and product access. No open processor access or completed customer acceptance is inferred.

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DOCUMENTED EVIDENCE

What the sources establish

QC82 announced a $1.5 million financing in January 2026 to support its laboratory, technology development and early manufacturing work in photon detection. It is a component supplier, with planned architecture claims kept separate from measured product performance.

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What remains unresolved

A room-temperature design objective does not demonstrate detector quality or complete room-temperature quantum computation; Registered legal identity; Complete independently reviewed detector characterization; Product availability and accepted customer use.

The next question to watch

Require efficiency, dark counts, timing jitter and saturation behavior at the same temperature and wavelength.

A research question, not a promised milestone.

QubitWire coverage

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Open research questions

Editorial questions for this profile. No reviewed closure decision has been recorded; unanswered questions do not lower the official score.

Open research question

Require efficiency, dark counts, timing jitter and saturation behavior at the same temperature and wavelength.

What evidence would help

A source addressing this question must identify the named system, experiment or deployment, its conditions, measured outcome and remaining limitations. Are performance limits stated under realistic loads and operating conditions?

What would resolve it?

An editorial review must explain which part of this question the evidence resolves. A roadmap or an announcement alone does not close it.

No resolved, partial or disputed outcome is asserted without a reviewed transition and its evidence.

Suggest evidence
Open research question

Which named system or service can I use under the documented access route?

What evidence would help

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What would resolve it?

Current primary documentation must identify the offering, eligible user and access conditions. An unspecified company-level access claim is insufficient.

No resolved, partial or disputed outcome is asserted without a reviewed transition and its evidence.

Suggest evidence
Open research question

Are the interfaces compatible with your existing hardware?

What evidence would help

Provide the source location, relevant product or generation, workload, resource constraints and reported uncertainty. Keep measurements, simulations and announced targets distinct.

What would resolve it?

A source reviewer must map the evidence to this exact scope. Missing disclosure remains unknown; it is not technical failure.

No resolved, partial or disputed outcome is asserted without a reviewed transition and its evidence.

Suggest evidence

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Sources & evidence

  1. QC82 closes financing ↗Company primary announcement · 29 Jan 2026

    QC82 announced a $1.5 million financing in January 2026 to support its laboratory, technology development and early manufacturing work in photon detection. It is a component supplier, with planned architecture claims kept separate from measured product performance.

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