A Scottish quantum hardware company has raised £2.5m seed funding to advance sovereign quantum capabilities in the UK.

Glasgow-based Quantcore has been backed by PXN Ventures, Blackfinch Ventures, Scottish Enterprise, Quantum Exponential and STAC.

It claims to be the only UK company producing quantum hardware using niobium, providing components that operate at temperatures colder than outer space.

This helps its customers, which include UK national laboratories, to save energy and do more with its quantum components at a more scalable rate.

Operating from the University of Glasgow’s James Watt Nanofabrication Centre, the company designs, manufactures and tests the superconducting processors, resonators and sensors that form the core of quantum computers and advanced sensing systems.