A laboratory, a company, a long horizon.
Wave Quantum Systems was founded in 2021 by a small group of physicists and systems engineers who believed quantum computing needed less spectacle and more rigor. Five years on, we operate two lab sites, two production cryostats, and a constellation of partners who treat our roadmap as their own.
Quantum without the theatre.
We started Wave because the existing roadmap to fault tolerance was too dependent on a single architecture, a single foundry, and a single funder. The field needed a second serious bet, with European fabrication and a smaller distance between physicists and compilers.
Five years later, we run a Yokohama foundry, two lab sites in Munich and London, a control-electronics design studio in San Francisco, and a small applied-research pod in New York that lives next door to our finance customers.
We're a 247-person company. About a third are physicists. About a third are software engineers. The rest keep the fridges cold, the suppliers honest, and the lights on.
What we will and will not do.
Science before story.
Every claim we publish ships with reproducible code, pulse schedules, and the calibration data it was measured against. We will not publish a number we cannot defend in a journal review.
Build the boring layers.
Quantum computing is mostly plumbing — cryogenics, control electronics, compilers, SREs at 2am. We do the unglamorous work because the science doesn't matter without it.
Open where we can.
Wave SDK, wave-bench, and wave-chem are Apache or MIT licensed. WC-890 calibration data is public. The only things we hold close are the qubit fabrication recipe and customer data.
Long horizons, dated bets.
We will not promise a fault-tolerant breakthrough next quarter to win a press cycle. Our public roadmap has dated bets through 2029 — we update it quarterly with what we hit and missed.
Built by physicists, run by builders.
Dr. Lena Brun
Previously TUM, IBM Research. PhD in superconducting circuits.
Dr. Sho Ito
Quantum control & cryogenics. Ex-RIKEN. 14 yrs at the fridge.
Dr. Mara Okafor
Topological codes & fault tolerance. Ex-Oxford, ex-Google QAI.
R. Tanaka
Compilers & runtimes. Ex-NVIDIA CUDA, ex-LLVM.
Dr. Nita Patel
Computational chemistry. Ex-DeepMind Chemistry.
F. Schmidt
FPGA & microwave control. Ex-Keysight, ex-Bluefors.