In a world obsessed with encryption algorithms and brute-force firewalls, Qunnect is playing a different game entirely, one rooted in the laws of physics, not the limits of math. And this week, the Brooklyn-based quantum networking pioneer just dialed things up with a fresh $10M Series A extension, led by Airbus Ventures, and backed again by Cisco Investments and Quantonation. For those paying attention, this wasn’t just another funding round, it was an oversubscribed mic drop from a team building the backbone of tomorrow’s secure internet, one entangled photon at a time.
Qunnect didn’t start in a VC war room or on a napkin at some espresso bar, it was born in the labs of Stony Brook University. Co-founders Mehdi Namazi, PhD (now Chief Scientist) and Maël Flament, MS (now CTO) didn’t just study quantum systems, they weaponized them for the real world. These aren’t your “qubits in a vacuum” theorists. These are hardware tacticians who figured out how to distribute entanglement over standard telecom fiber, at room temperature, with enough stability to run 24/7 in the chaos of NYC and Berlin’s urban grid. That’s not theoretical physics. That’s engineering with street credibility.
CEO Noel Goddard, PhD, joined in 2020 and brought the heat, fusing biotech grit with hard science execution. Under her leadership, the team delivered the first rack-mounted, room-temp quantum memory (Qu-Mem), a full-stack Carina suite, and live entanglement distribution over operational city fiber, all while staying upright through the bureaucratic gauntlet of defense and telecom procurement. Add in strategic deployments with Deutsche Telekom’s T-Labs and you’ve got a masterclass in precision execution.
Let’s be clear: Qunnect isn’t chasing hype. They’re building infrastructure for a multi-billion-dollar market that doesn’t care about vaporware. With room-temp photonic entanglement sources, polarization-stabilized fiber links, and repeater-ready nodes, this is the foundation of quantum-secure communication across finance, energy, telecom, and defense. Not in some imaginary future. Right now.
$29.69M in total funding. Deployments in two continents. A full-stack platform ready to plug into existing fiber. And the kind of technical fidelity that makes national labs and global telecoms sign NDAs faster than you can say “quantum repeater.”
Congrats to Mehdi Namazi, Maël Flament, Noel Goddard and the entire Qunnect crew for pulling off a rare feat in deep tech: turning abstract science into mission-critical infrastructure. If you’re a data-driven org with anything worth protecting, you might want to get Qunnected.
