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Photonic funding, valuation and investors
Distributed quantum-computing developer combining silicon-based qubits with optical networking.
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Funding, valuation & investors
Answer-first snapshotLatest funding
Investment round final close; includes January first close
More than US$200M / C$275M; one financing · May 12, 2026
Latest known valuation
US$2B post-money / C$2.7B
Investment round final close; includes January first close · May 12, 2026
Total disclosed equity funding
$200M
Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.
Current status
private
growth · British Columbia, Canada
Investors in latest funding
Lead: Planet First Partners
Other: Business Development Bank of Canada , Export Development Canada , Bell Ventures , Firgun Ventures , InBC Investment Corp. , Mubadala Capital , Royal Bank of Canada , TELUS , British Columbia Investment Management Corporation , Microsoft
Overview
Photonic develops distributed quantum computers using silicon-based qubits connected optically. Although the company is named Photonic, its architecture should not be grouped automatically with approaches that encode computation entirely in photonic qubits. On May 12, 2026, it announced the final close of an investment round exceeding US$200 million, or C$275 million, at a US$2 billion post-money valuation.
Planet First Partners led the round. The final close expanded the financing first announced in January; the January and May headline amounts must not be added as separate full rounds. The company stated that cumulative capital raised exceeded US$350 million at the final close.
Investors are backing both quantum processing and the connections needed to distribute work across systems, with engineering and commercial milestones still to be demonstrated at larger scale.
Why Photonic is interesting
Its May 2026 final close exceeded $200 million, bringing growth investors, banks, telecom companies and public-backed investment institutions into the same round.
Funding history (newest first)
Investment round final close; includes January first close
2026-05-12 More than US$200M / C$275M; one financing Valuation: US$2B post-money / C$2.7B- Planet First Partners (lead)
- Business Development Bank of Canada (participant)
- Export Development Canada (participant)
- Bell Ventures (participant)
- Firgun Ventures (participant)
- InBC Investment Corp. (participant)
- Mubadala Capital (participant)
- Royal Bank of Canada (participant)
- TELUS (participant)
- British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (participant)
- Microsoft (participant)
Source: Read source · photonic.com
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Competitive landscape
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Diraq adjacent
Also uses silicon-based quantum devices, but its architecture differs.
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PsiQuantum alternative
Photonic-qubit strategy; the shared use of optics does not make the approaches identical.
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