Qoro, a software startup building infrastructure for hybrid quantum-classical computing, has raised £560,000 in a pre-seed round from Ada Ventures, Superangels Venture Fund and the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago, Illinois. It develops a software stack designed to make quantum and classical systems work together more easily. The funding will support critical engineering hires, match funds for grant projects, and accelerate product rollout.
Enterprises are attempting to combine traditional processors such as CPUs and GPUs with early quantum hardware, but these fragmented systems currently require teams of specialists, months of engineering effort and around 150,000 lines of integration code. Qoro’s software reduces that integration burden to 20 lines of code and turns months of work into weeks by allowing different types of computers to operate as one logical system.
While much of the industry is focused on building physical quantum hardware, Qoro is targeting the software layer required to make hybrid quantum-classical systems usable for enterprise workloads. Its platform enables multilayered parallelisation across heterogeneous hardware rather than requiring quantum jobs to be processed sequentially. Qoro stood out in the Duality programme for addressing the infrastructure gap that connects quantum hardware to real enterprise workloads.
Dan Holme and Stephen founded Qoro after working at Cisco, bringing networking and infrastructure experience to the development of the platform. Ada Ventures and Superangels Venture Fund are backing the approach as a practical way to enable hybrid computing, while Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is supporting the infrastructure layer connecting quantum hardware to enterprise use cases.
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 $750k 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.
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.
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.
Qoro stood out in the Duality programme 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.
