FrostByte secures €1.3M of pre-seed investment
We’re excited to announce that we have just closed FrostByte's pre-seed funding round at €1.3M, with backing from UNIIQ - Finance for the Future, Paeonia Group, InnovationQuarter, Graduate Ventures, and an angel investor!
A bit of context on what we're doing and why this matters:
Every qubit in a quantum computer today needs its own chain of bulky, room-temperature electronics to control and read it out. As the industry scales from hundreds to thousands to eventually millions of qubits, this approach runs out of road. Cables become unmanageable, cryostats run out of space, and costs spiral.
FrostByte's mission is to miniaturise control electronics for quantum technologies — making them denser, cheaper, and more scalable. We design integrated circuits that work inside the cryostat, right next to the qubits. Our first products are a family of cryogenic RF switches that replace bulky room-temperature switching with compact, low-power components operating down to millikelvin temperatures across a range of frequencies.
None of this is possible without our founding team: James Kroll, Luc Enthoven, and our scientific advisors Fabio Sebastiano and Masoud Babaie, whose foundational work in cryo-CMOS made this company possible in the first place.
We’d also like to thank QuTech, TU Delft and YES!Delft for the support we have received in getting this start-up going!
Two things we'd ask:
📈 If you're trying to scale your quantum technologies and control electronics are starting to feel like the bottleneck - get in touch, we should talk.
💪 And if you're an IC designer, RF engineer, quantum scientist, or commercially-minded person who wants to help build this, drop us a message, we'd love to talk.
The next decade of quantum computing depends on solving the scaling problem. That's what we're here to do.