About
SoftwareQ Inc. is a quantum software company based in Kitchener, Canada, founded in 2017 by Dr. Michele Mosca and Dr. Vlad Gheorghiu as a spin-off from the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo. It develops quantum simulators, compilers, optimizers, and other software, with Vlad Gheorghiu serving as CEO and President. Its flagship products include Quantum++, a general-purpose high-performance quantum computing framework that runs significantly faster than competing platforms, and staq, a modular quantum processing toolkit of optimizers, translators, and physical mappers for quantum devices. In 2025, softwareQ was awarded up to $419,200 in funding to collaborate with UK quantum networking company Nu Quantum on fault-tolerant quantum computing. Both founders are IQC faculty members, with Michele Mosca a professor in the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo.
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