Pasqal

Pasqal is a quantum-computing company founded in 2019 in France and headquartered in Massy, near Paris. Its co-founders include Georges-Olivier Reymond and the Nobel laureate physicist Alain Aspect, giving the company deep roots in foundational quantum science. Rather than the superconducting circuits used by many competitors, Pasqal builds neutral-atom quantum computers, in which individual electrically neutral atoms are arranged in space by laser tweezers to serve as qubits. This approach is particularly well suited to analog quantum simulation and to optimization problems, where the flexible geometry of the atom array can be matched to the structure of the task.

Pasqal's processors are sold under the Orion series name, with the Orion Gamma machine carrying more than 140 qubits. The company has grown into one of the broadest commercial cloud footprints in neutral-atom computing, with deployments across Europe and beyond. In a notable regional expansion, Pasqal and Saudi Aramco launched Saudi Arabia's first quantum computer — a 200-qubit machine — alongside the Middle East's first commercial quantum-computing-as-a-service platform.

For AI workloads, Pasqal integrates NVIDIA NVQLink to support hybrid quantum-classical computing, pairing its quantum processors with classical GPU systems. It pursues research in quantum graph machine learning, which uses the natural structure of neutral-atom arrays to represent graph-shaped data, as well as quantum approaches to drug discovery and materials science. Pasqal systems are usable today through Pasqal Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and the Google Cloud Marketplace. The company is currently private but has announced a planned merger worth roughly 2 billion dollars to list on Nasdaq through a special-purpose acquisition company under the ticker BBCQ, with the deal expected to close in the second half of 2026.