Qunnect

Qunnect is a quantum networking hardware company headquartered at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York. It spun out of Stony Brook University’s quantum information research on room-temperature quantum memory and is led by CEO Noel Goddard. Its Carina product suite generates, buffers and preserves entangled photons and controls qubit timing, using standard server-rack form factors that operate at room temperature on existing commercial fiber.

The company operates GothamQ, a testbed of roughly 34 km of fiber loops through Brooklyn and Queens, and works with Deutsche Telekom’s T-Labs on a Berlin testbed. In 2025 the partners reported a 17-day entanglement-distribution run on Berlin fiber, and in January 2026 T-Labs reported quantum teleportation over about 30 km of live commercial fiber using Qunnect hardware, with roughly 90% average fidelity (results posted as a non-peer-reviewed preprint).

Qunnect raised an $8M Series A led by Airbus Ventures with Quantonation in 2022 and a $10M extension in June 2025 led by Airbus Ventures with Cisco Investments joining. Coverage of that round cites about $22.5M raised in investments and grants overall. The company says it has delivered hardware to customers in finance, energy and telecom, but the work is still largely pilots and testbeds rather than production security deployments.