Classiq

Classiq is an Israeli quantum computing software company founded in 2020 by Nir Minerbi (CEO), Yehuda Naveh, and Amir Naveh. The company is headquartered in Tel Aviv. Classiq has raised venture funding, including a $33 million Series B round in 2022. The company is private.

The core product is a quantum circuit design platform that allows engineers and researchers to design, optimize, and analyze quantum algorithms at a high level of abstraction, without needing to manually construct low-level quantum gate circuits.

Classiq's platform addresses a fundamental bottleneck in quantum software development: writing quantum circuits at the gate level is extraordinarily complex and does not scale to the problem sizes that will matter commercially. Classiq lets users define quantum algorithms in a high-level functional model and then automatically synthesizes the optimized quantum circuit. The target buyers are quantum computing teams inside large enterprises, research institutions, and national laboratories working on chemistry simulation, optimization, and machine learning problems on quantum hardware.

The primary product is the Classiq platform, which includes a Python SDK, a web-based IDE, and a synthesis engine that compiles high-level quantum function definitions into executable circuits. The platform supports execution on multiple quantum hardware backends, including IBM Quantum, Amazon Braket, and Azure Quantum. Classiq has also published open benchmarking work, notably the Quantum Volume and circuit-depth benchmarks that received attention in the quantum research community.

Classiq is headquartered in Tel Aviv, and the founding team is Israeli. The R&D function is based in Israel. The founders have backgrounds in formal verification and electronic design automation, domains with a strong Israeli academic and industry tradition.