News, releases, and milestones from QC Design

Martin Plenio to speak at IQT Nordics 2026

Inside Quantum Technology announces Martin Plenio, Alexander von Humboldt Professor at Ulm University and co-founder of QC Design, as a speaker at IQT Nordics 2026 (Oslo, 22–24 June).

Yaqumo Collaborates with QC Design and Adopts Plaquette to Accelerate Path to Fault-Tolerant Neutral-Atom Quantum Computing

Q-CTRL × QC Design: Accelerating the pathway to large-scale, fault-tolerant systems through software

What does the ultimate computer look like under the laws of physics?

Ish Dhand, co-founder of QC Design, joins Beyond the Qubit to discuss fault-tolerant quantum computing and how QC Design helps hardware teams—described as the Cadence/Synopsys of quantum. The conversation covers logical qubits, error correction as an architecture and decoding problem, and why teams need to think about fault tolerance early.

QUDORA Adopts QC Design's Plaquette to Accelerate Fault‑Tolerance for Scalable Trapped‑Ion Processors

11 quantum startup operators to watch in Europe

Sifted profiles 11 quantum operators to watch in Europe; QC Design CTO Shreya Kumar is featured.

Plaquette v2025.7.4 adds trapped-ion heating dynamics support

ZuriQ Pilots QC Design’s Plaquette to Accelerate Fault‑Tolerance for Penning‑Trap Quantum Processors

Planning for Fault-Tolerance with QC Design

ZuriQ announces a pilot project using QC Design's Plaquette software to design and optimise fault-tolerant architectures for its Penning ion-trap platform.

Plaquette v2025.7 unlocks modelling of any quantum hardware imperfection

Plaquette v2025.4 released with loss-aware decoding support

Boosted Bell-state measurements for photonic quantum computation

Plaquette v2025.3 released with a new GPU-based full-state simulation backend for unprecedented scale and performance

QC Design Pioneers GPU-Accelerated Quantum Fault-Tolerance Design

Plaquette v2025.2 released with new framework for simulating near-Clifford error-correcting circuits

Plaquette v2025.1 released with major upgrades for circuit customization

Quantum Source Pilots QC Design’s Plaquette to Accelerate Photonic Fault-Tolerance

Plaquette v2024.12 released with new tools for MBQC simulations

Plaquette v2024.11 released with support for superconducting qubits, new qLDPC codes and more

Plaquette v2024.10 released with support for Dynamic Circuits

QC Design: Shaping the Future of Quantum Design Automation

Benjamin Wolba interviews Ish Dhand, CEO and co-founder of QC Design, on the Future of Computing blog. They discuss QC Design's quantum design automation software for fault-tolerant quantum computers, the company's founding and €4M EIC Accelerator funding, and the vision of building 'AutoCAD for quantum' to help hardware teams simulate and optimise architectures.

Plaquette v2024.8 released with 5000x faster simulations and real hardware imperfection support

Ish Dhand, QC Design, on fault tolerance

Ish Dhand, CEO and co-founder of QC Design, is interviewed by Yuval Boger on The Superposition Guy's Podcast. They discuss QC Design's focus on fault tolerance in quantum computing, including architectures and software tools for building scalable, reliable quantum computers, blueprints for fault-tolerant systems, and improvements to existing hardware.

QC Design: Pioneering Quantum Computing Solutions with CEO Ish Dand

Ish Dand, CEO and Co-Founder of QC Design, is interviewed on Startuprad.io after QC Design was named newcomer of the year and winner of the German Startupradio Awards 2024. The conversation covers QC Design's software for quantum hardware manufacturers and the potential of quantum computing in drug discovery and materials simulation.

Quantum design automation leader, QC Design, selected for the prestigious EIC Accelerator program and secures €4M funding

Plaquette v2024.6 released with support for qLDPC codes

Plaquette v2024.5 released with support for native quantum dot imperfections

QC Design CEO Ish Dhand Wins Newcomer of the Year at German Startup Awards

QC Design announces launch of fault-tolerance design automation tool Plaquette+ and first sale to QuiX Quantum

Q2B 2023 Paris | Start Up Pitch Session | Ish Dhand, CEO, Co founder, QC Design

Ish Dhand, CEO and co-founder of QC Design, presents at the Q2B 2023 Paris Start Up Pitch Session hosted by QC Ware. The pitch session showcases QC Design to the quantum business community.

IQM Quantum Computers and QC Design partner to bring “Fault Tolerance” module to IQM academy

The startup using ARM's blueprint to give European quantum a fighting chance

Sifted covers QC Design coming out of stealth with technology to help quantum hardware companies fast-track error correction and scale logical qubits. Founder Ish Dhand compares the company's licensing model to ARM and discusses pre-seed backing from Vsquared, Quantonation and Salvia.