ORCA Computing

Welcome to the team, Eesa! 🎉 We're pleased to welcome Eesa Ali as a Research Intern at ORCA, joining from the University of Bristol. Eesa is developing ORCA's rubidium platform to enable efficient quantum gates for photon qubits - a key step towards practical, large-scale quantum architectures. On joining ORCA, Eesa says "It's been a joy to join and do research in a dynamic startup. No matter where, an optics lab always feels like home!"

At ORCA Computing, we are putting quantum to work across a range of industry use cases like novel breakthroughs in pharmaceuticals and advanced materials. Our CEO and Co-Founder, Richard Murray, discusses how quantum and nature could be the key to solving problems we aren't even considering yet - like converting sunlight into food and energy. Watch the full #RAZOR Science Show Episode here: https://lnkd.in/e-7KzYfs

Some new faces for our applications team! 👋 We're pleased to welcome three new joiners: ⚡ German Sinuco joins as 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐫 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐦 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫, working with our customers and partners to develop new industry use cases and applications. ➕ Chelsea Williams joins as a 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐦 𝐀𝐥𝐠𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐦𝐬 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭, working on the development of new application-driven algorithms for future quantum devices. 🔧 Mahmoud Hossam comes on board as a 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫, focused on hybrid quantum-classical ML applications for life sciences, materials and chemistry. Great to have all three on board, welcome!🪴

𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐀𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐲𝐜𝐥𝐞 | 𝐃𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐓𝐚𝐧𝐤  Our CEO and Co-founder Richard Murray joined Sarah Chiplin and Chris Morton from IFS, Luigi Sidoli (BAE Systems), and Noah Sylvia (RUSI Europe) to discuss how AI (and quantum) can deliver sharper answers at mission-critical speed. ⏱️ Watch the episode 👉 https://lnkd.in/e4TEMRaE #industrialAI #defence #QuantumAccelerator #AIDatacentre

📽️ RAZOR Science Show's Neil Cairns tours the ORCA Computing lab in London and sits down with our CEO and Co-founder, Richard Murray, to talk about why we're putting quantum to work now — on #AI, #ML, and complex industry problems — while building toward the fully reliable quantum computers of the future. Watch the episode 👇 https://lnkd.in/e5RrD3MQ #QuantumComputing #Quantum

We're growing ORCA's R&D team! 🎉 As we prepare to launch our next-generation PT-3 system, we're bringing on new people to help build the hardware behind it. Two hands-on roles are open right now, based in London: Optical Systems Product Engineer 💡 → https://lnkd.in/ej4yepCf Electronic Engineer ⚡ → https://lnkd.in/eggR62-K Apply or tag someone great: send a CV and a short intro to careers@orcacomputing.com #QuantumComputing #PhotonicQuantumComputing #DeepTech #Hiring #Engineering

ORCA Computing is growing 🪴 Last month we welcomed two new faces to our commercial team: Chloe Follon joins as Director of Marketing, ahead of our next-generation product launching this autumn. Eleanor (Ella) Richardson joins as Senior Commercial Analyst, helping shape go-to-market for our quantum-accelerated data centre solutions. Welcome to the team, both! We're hiring: Senior Pre-Sales Engineer (Applied ML / HPC) - join us at the front line of commercialising quantum: building demos, shaping solution architectures, and turning interest into deployed systems. 📍 Central London, hybrid. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/deJzGk9N

"We have the clear view that quantum can be useful before error correction." TechJournal.uk revisits a panel that our CEO Richard Murray joined at Commercialising Quantum Global in London. Here Richard made the case that the industry earns trust through applications and benchmarking. "At ORCA Computing, we’re trying to make quantum relevant to commercial organisations by bringing the cost down to a few million dollars, so it makes sense alongside an investment in GPUs and other infrastructure. We build hardware based on photonics that is datacentre-ready... Our systems are rack-mounted, room temperature, and can be installed into a datacentre in a matter of hours, not days, weeks or years." When your AI needs more runway, accelerate with quantum. Read the full piece 👇 https://lnkd.in/e7S2vYEM #quantumcomputing #machinelearning #errorcorrection #AI

Thanks for the mention Digital Realty! Installing our next-generation system at the DRIL this autumn is an exciting milestone for ORCA Computing! This marks the first step in delivering commercial quantum advantage. 🎉

How do photonic circuits behave as they scale? 📈 New research from ORCA Computing, Imperial College London and University of Oxford, shows that photonic systems stay trainable as they scale, while maintaining a provable edge over classical methods. These are backed up by results from ORCA’s PT-2 photonic quantum accelerator. Photonics has always been one of the most practical routes to useful quantum computing. This is a real step toward showing it can also be one of the most scalable. Read it here: arxiv.org/abs/2607.21544 Great work by Alexander Makarovskiy, Adam Taylor, Zhenghao Li, Michael Hanks, Aubrey Clark, Myungshik Kim, Ian Walmsley and William Clements #QuantumComputing #PhotonicComputing #QuantumMachineLearning