Infleqtion
Infleqtion is a publicly traded (NYSE: INFQ) full-stack neutral-atom quantum technology company that designs and sells quantum computers, optical atomic clocks, RF and inertial quantum sensors, quantum software, and integrated photonics to government, defense, and enterprise customers worldwide.
- Company typePublic
- Founded2007
- HeadquartersLouisville, United States
- Headcount251–500
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingHardware or Manufacturing
What Infleqtion does
Infleqtion (formerly ColdQuanta; NYSE: INFQ since February 2026) is a full-stack neutral-atom quantum technology company that designs, manufactures, and sells quantum computers, precision quantum sensors, quantum-inspired software, and integrated photonic subsystems. Its core modality uses laser-cooled, room-temperature rubidium and cesium neutral atoms trapped in optical tweezers with Rydberg-state excitation, which avoids the cryogenic infrastructure required by superconducting and trapped-ion competitors. The product portfolio includes the Sqale quantum computer (up to 1,600-site atom arrays and an industry-leading CZ gate fidelity of 99.73%±0.03%, with a roadmap to exceed 100 logical qubits by 2028), the Tiqker optical atomic clock (3U rack-mounted, hydrogen-maser-class short-term stability), the Quantum Spectrum Rydberg RF receiver covering 3 MHz-6 GHz, quantum inertial sensors, and the Quantum Cores catalog of off-the-shelf neutral-atom subsystems. The Superstaq cross-layer compiler and the Contextual Machine Learning (CML) framework sit atop the hardware, integrated natively with NVIDIA CUDA-Q.
The company's revenue is generated across hardware sales (Sqale on-premise and cloud, Tiqker clocks, Quantum Cores catalog, inertial sensors), software (Superstaq platform, Morningstar Direct integration), government contracts and awards (US DoD, DARPA, ARPA-E, NASA, DOE, UK MOD/Royal Navy, Australian Army), and OEM/co-development engagements with defense primes including L3Harris, BAE Systems, Safran, Thales, and World View. Go-to-market is primarily direct enterprise field sales supplemented by a global distributor network for catalog Quantum Cores components and by public tendering for sovereign/defense customers. Q1 2026 revenue of $9.5 million (+14% YoY) was driven entirely by quantum solutions, with the company guiding to at least $40 million for full-year 2026; a $569M cash balance and no debt provide multi-year runway to execute against the roadmap.
Infleqtion firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- Infleqtion
- Legal name
- Infleqtion, Inc.
- Website
- https://infleqtion.com
- Company type
- Public
- Founded year
- 2007
- Operating status
- Ipo
- Headcount range
- 251–500 employees
- Short description
- Infleqtion is a publicly traded (NYSE: INFQ) full-stack neutral-atom quantum technology company that designs and sells quantum computers, optical atomic clocks, RF and inertial quantum sensors, quantum software, and integrated photonics to government, defense, and enterprise customers worldwide.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
Infleqtion industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Quantum Technology Systems
- NAICS
- Bare Printed Circuit Board Manufacturing (334412), Semiconductor and Related Device Manufacturing (334413)
- SIC
- Instruments For Meas & Testing Of Electricity & Elec Signals (3825)
- akta.pro primary industry
- Hybrid Algorithm Frameworks & Libraries (VQE/QAOA/QML Tooling) (HDAGANAC)
- akta.pro secondary industry
- Quantum RF & Microwave Sensing (Quantum Receivers) (HDAGAHAG)
Keywords
Where Infleqtion is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Louisville
- HQ country
- United States
- HQ region
- North America
Offices6 records
Markets served
Infleqtion business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Hardware or Manufacturing
- Cost components
- Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales
Revenue model
- Government Contracts and Awards: Primary revenue driver, with Infleqtion's systems in use by the U.S. Department of War, NASA, DARPA, ARPA-E, the U.K. government, and allies. Q1 2026 revenue of $9.5 million (+14% YoY) was driven entirely by quantum solutions; 2026 revenue outlook raised to at least $40 million. Notable awards include $100M CHIPS Act LOI, $6.2M ARPA-E ENCODE, $3.9M ARPA-E QC3, $11M DoD APFIT, $2M U.S. Army CML contract, $1M U.S. Navy contract, and £45M UKRI for optical atomic clock.
- Quantum Computer Hardware (Sqale) Sales and Cloud Access: On-premise and cloud-based access to the Sqale neutral-atom quantum computer, with Sqale 'Available Now' for on-premise and 'Private Beta' for cloud access; upcoming generation pre-orderable. Delivered the UK's only operational 100-qubit system at the National Quantum Computing Centre.
- Quantum Cores and Scientific Component Sales: Off-the-shelf neutral-atom building blocks (UHV glass cells, MOT systems, magnet assemblies, Picas beam delivery, ion trap packages) sold via a global distributor network (Laser 2000 UK and others) to research labs and quantum researchers.
- Tiqker Optical Atomic Clock Sales: Tiqker Prime Zero (prototype Q3 2023) and Tiqker Prime (pre-production Q1 2024, current production) sold to defense, space, and commercial customers. First UK sale of Tiqker was recorded; Royal Navy sea trials completed aboard MOD's Excalibur autonomous submarine.
- Superstaq Software and Applications Research: Software platform with public docs, OpenAPI access, and integration into Morningstar Direct's Analytics Lab (>17,000 finance professionals). Also used by Sandia, Argonne, Berkeley Lab, Q-Next, AWS Braket, and JPMorgan Chase.
- Strategic Partnerships and OEM Embedding: Component-level and co-development revenue through OEM relationships with Safran (precision timing), L3Harris (RF sensing), BAE Systems, Thales, World View, and Quantum Corridor.
Pricing tiers
| Model | Billing | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Other | Multi-year contract | Sqale quantum computer on-premise and cloud access |
| Subscription | Annual | Superstaq quantum software platform |
| Unit Pricing | Pay-as-you-go | Quantum Cores catalog products |
| Other | Multi-year contract | Tiqker optical atomic clock |
Go-to-market motion1 record
Distribution channels6 records
Infleqtion product offering
Product offeringCore offering
Infleqtion engineers full-stack neutral-atom quantum computers, precision quantum sensors, and quantum software for governments, corporations, and research institutions worldwide. Its core offerings include the Sqale neutral-atom quantum computer, the Tiqker optical atomic clock, Quantum Spectrum Rydberg RF receivers, quantum inertial sensors, the Superstaq cross-layer optimizing software platform, and the Contextual Machine Learning (CML) framework, supported by modular Quantum Cores subsystems for research customers.
Product overview
Infleqtion offers a full-stack neutral-atom quantum technology platform organized around a hardware-plus-software architecture. The core hardware products are the Sqale neutral-atom quantum computer (with a roadmap to exceed 100 logical qubits by 2028), the Tiqker optical atomic clock (with hydrogen-maser-class precision in a 3U rack-mounted form), the Quantum Spectrum RF receiver (using Rydberg atomic sensing), and quantum inertial sensors (delivered in space aboard NASA JPL's Cold Atom Lab and QGGPf missions). Underpinning all of these is the Integrated Photonics platform that delivers 10x to 10,000x reductions in size, weight, and power via chip-scale photonic-integrated circuits. The Superstaq cross-layer optimizing software compiler (with OpenAPI, Qiskit, Cirq, OpenQASM frontends) ties the hardware stack together, while the Contextual Machine Learning (CML) framework powers AI/ML workloads including the SAPIENT secure multi-sensor fusion platform. Complementary Quantum Cores products (miniMOT V2, doubleMOT, RuBECi, Physics Platform, Cold Atom Source Cells, Ion Trap packages, Picas beam delivery systems) provide ready-to-use neutral-atom subsystems for research customers. The company's solutions are deployed across national security (US DoD, UK Royal Navy), space (NASA, JPL), energy (ARPA-E ENCODE), life sciences (Wellcome Leap Q4Bio, CSL Behring, DARPA IMPAQT), materials science (NVIDIA CUDA-Q logical qubit application), and finance (Morningstar Direct Analytics Lab, JP Morgan Q-CHOP) verticals.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Brands
- Sqale: Infleqtion's line of full-stack, fault-tolerant neutral-atom quantum computers.
- Tiqker
- Quantum Spectrum
- Superstaq
- Contextual Machine Learning (CML)
- Quantum Cores
Products and services
- Sqale Quantum Computer Full-stack, fault-tolerant neutral-atom quantum computer with demonstrated arrays up to 1,600 sites, industry-leading CZ entangling gate fidelity of 99.73% ± 0.03%, individual optical addressing, and deep Superstaq compiler integration. Available now for on-premise deployment and in Private Beta for cloud access, with an upcoming generation pre-orderable; roadmap targets 100+ logical qubits by 2028.
- Tiqker Optical Atomic Clock Compact, rugged next-generation optical atomic clock for defense, space, and commercial missions. Offers hydrogen-maser short-term precision in a 3U rack-mounted form factor with 10,000x higher atomic transition frequency than microwave clocks; supports phased array synchronization, drone defense, assured PNT in GPS-denied environments, and data center timing synchronization.
- Quantum Spectrum (RF Sensing) Next-generation RF spectrum sensing product using Rydberg atomic sensing to detect, locate, assess, and classify RF signals from 3 MHz to 6 GHz (Gen 1), with Gen 2 roadmap to 1 MHz to 12 GHz. Replaces multiple conventional HF/VHF/UHF/L/S/C/X/Ku/K-band antennas with a single multi-channel quantum sensor for full-spectrum sensing from a small aperture.
- Quantum Inertial Sensing
Quantifiable outcome
- Industry-leading CZ entangling gate fidelity of 99.73% ± 0.03% (Aug 2024)
- +8 more outcomes
Companies that use Infleqtion
Customer profileNamed customers35 records
Ideal customer profiles4 records
Infleqtion technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed Yes
API detail
- Has API
- Yes
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Integration9 records
AI capability13 records
Feature10 records
Infleqtion partnerships and signals
Strategic signalScale indicators1 record
Recent moves8 records
Expansion highlights6 records
Infleqtion competitors and assessment
Company assessmentDirect peers
- IonQ: Public pure-play quantum computing company (NYSE: IONQ) using trapped-ion modality; competes head-to-head with Infleqtion in cloud-accessible quantum computers and in defense/enterprise quantum software, with overlapping enterprise sales motion and government customer base.
- QuEra Computing: Direct neutral-atom quantum computing peer building full-stack quantum computers using Rydberg arrays; competes with Infleqtion on the same qubit modality, similar government/defense customer base, and overlapping enterprise cloud access strategy.
- Pasqal: French neutral-atom quantum computing company focused on Rydberg-atom arrays; directly competes with Infleqtion on qubit modality and is pursuing similar HPC integration and enterprise cloud access business models.
- Atom Computing: Neutral-atom quantum computing peer using optically trapped neutral atoms (similar modality to Infleqtion); competes on full-stack quantum computer sales to government and enterprise customers in the U.S. market.
- Rigetti Computing: Public pure-play (Nasdaq: RGTI) building superconducting quantum computers; competes with Infleqtion on cloud-accessible quantum hardware, government quantum contracts, and enterprise quantum-as-a-service offerings.
- D-Wave Quantum: Public quantum computing company (NYSE: QBTS) focused on annealing quantum computers; competes with Infleqtion for enterprise optimization customers (e.g., portfolio optimization, logistics) and government/defense quantum contracts.
Broad incumbents
- Quantinuum: Trapped-ion quantum computing incumbent (Honeywell/Cambridge Quantum merger); competes with Infleqtion on quantum hardware sales and on quantum software (via InQuanto), with deeper commercial penetration in chemistry and pharma use cases.
- IBM Quantum: Broad incumbent offering superconducting quantum computers and the Qiskit software framework; competes with Infleqtion via its own quantum hardware as well as via Superstaq's IBM-backend compatibility and government quantum contracts.
Emerging players
- PsiQuantum: Well-capitalized photonic quantum computing company pursuing a fault-tolerant, million-qubit vision; competes with Infleqtion's Sqale roadmap on long-term fault-tolerant quantum computing, though via a different modality.
- Vector Atomic: Quantum sensing startup developing atomic clocks, gravimeters, and inertial sensors for defense applications; competes directly with Infleqtion's Tiqker optical clock and quantum inertial sensing product lines for the same defense customer base.
Market position
Strengths5 records
Weaknesses5 records
Competitive moat5 records
Key risks6 records
Key highlights7 records
Customer concentration
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Infleqtion leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles10 records
Infleqtion subsidiaries and ownership
Company hierarchySubsidiaries2 records
Infleqtion funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds18 records
Investors25 records
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Infleqtion M&A and investment
M&A and investmentM&A1 record
Investments2 records
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Frequently asked questions about Infleqtion
What does Infleqtion do?
Infleqtion engineers full-stack neutral-atom quantum computers, precision quantum sensors, and quantum software for governments, corporations, and research institutions worldwide. Its core offerings include the Sqale neutral-atom quantum computer, the Tiqker optical atomic clock, Quantum Spectrum Rydberg RF receivers, quantum inertial sensors, the Superstaq cross-layer optimizing software platform, and the Contextual Machine Learning (CML) framework, supported by modular Quantum Cores subsystems for research customers.
Is Infleqtion a public or private company?
Infleqtion is a public company. It is classified as public and is currently ipo.
When was Infleqtion founded?
Infleqtion was founded in 2007. It employs 251 to 500 people.
Where is Infleqtion based?
Infleqtion is headquartered in Louisville, United States, in the North America region.
How does Infleqtion make money?
Six revenue lines are on record. Government Contracts and Awards are the primary driver. The others are quantum Computer Hardware (Sqale) Sales and Cloud Access, quantum Cores and Scientific Component Sales, tiqker Optical Atomic Clock Sales, superstaq Software and Applications Research and strategic Partnerships and OEM Embedding.
Who are Infleqtion's main competitors?
Direct peers on record are IonQ, QuEra Computing, Pasqal, Atom Computing, Rigetti Computing and D-Wave Quantum. Broad incumbents are Quantinuum and IBM Quantum. Emerging players are PsiQuantum and Vector Atomic.
Does Infleqtion have an API?
Yes. Infleqtion offers the Superstaq developer-facing API/programmatic interface with cross-layer optimization for quantum programs. It supports common quantum languages (Qiskit, Cirq, OpenQASM) and a build-your-own OpenAPI option allowing users to write once and target many backends. The API exposes pulse-level compiler optimization, Supermarq application-oriented benchmarks, and Quantum Characterization, Verification, and Validation (QCVV) tools including pre-built experiments such as Interleaved Randomized Benchmarking (IRB) and Cross Entropy Benchmarking (XEB). The Contextual Machine Learning (CML) runtime also runs on NVIDIA CUDA-Q and commercial GPUs via this interface. Documentation is publicly available at superstaq.readthedocs.io. Developer documentation is at superstaq.readthedocs.io/en/latest.
What industry is Infleqtion in?
Infleqtion's product category is Quantum Technology Systems. Its primary akta.pro industry code is HDAGANAC, Hybrid Algorithm Frameworks & Libraries (VQE/QAOA/QML Tooling), with a secondary code of HDAGAHAG, Quantum RF & Microwave Sensing (Quantum Receivers). Its NAICS code is 334412 and its SIC code is 3825.