# QC Ware Corp.

> QC Ware is a Palo Alto-based enterprise software company that builds quantum and quantum-inspired tools for hard scientific problems. Founded in 2014 by veterans of NASA Ames, it started as a hardware-agnostic quantum cloud platform (Forge) and evolved into Promethium, a GPU-accelerated quantum chemistry SaaS that runs density functional theory calculations on molecules up to thousands of atoms, claiming speeds 10 to 100 times faster than legacy tools. The company also runs Q2B, the largest annual practical quantum computing conference, and counts Goldman Sachs, Airbus, BMW and Covestro among its collaborators and investors.

- **Founded:** 2014
- **Headquarters:** Palo Alto, California, United States
- **Founders:** Matt Johnson (Co-founder & CEO), Kin (KJ) Sham (Co-founder), Randall Correll (Co-founder)
- **Team size:** ~46 employees
- **Products:** Promethium, QC Score, QC Ware Forge, Quantum Services
- **Notable:** Founded 2014, among the earliest dedicated quantum software companies to survive a full decade., Raised roughly $60M total across seed, Series A and Series B rounds., Launched Forge (2019), one of the first multi-vendor quantum cloud platforms.

## Products & services

- **Promethium** — A GPU-powered, cloud-based quantum chemistry SaaS platform running density functional theory (DFT) calculations - single-point energy, geometry optimization, conformer search and batch processing - on molecules scaling up to ~2,000 atoms, claimed 10-100x faster than legacy ab initio tools, with an intuitive GUI and API.
- **QC Score** — A scoring function for drug discovery that aims to deliver FEP-like binding accuracy in minutes for lead optimization.
- **QC Ware Forge** — A hardware-agnostic quantum computing cloud platform and API letting developers run algorithms across multiple quantum hardware vendors and simulators; used for quantum chemistry (AEIM + MC-VQE), optimization and machine learning workflows.
- **Quantum Services** — Workshops, training, pilot/proof-of-concept projects and R&D collaborations that help enterprises evaluate quantum and quantum-inspired approaches for their specific problems.

## Achievements

- Founded 2014, among the earliest dedicated quantum software companies to survive a full decade.
- Raised roughly $60M total across seed, Series A and Series B rounds.
- Launched Forge (2019), one of the first multi-vendor quantum cloud platforms.
- Launched Promethium (2023), a GPU-powered quantum chemistry SaaS claiming 10-100x speedups.
- Created and runs Q2B (since 2017), the largest annual practical quantum computing conference.
- Early tester of Google's Cirq framework, publicly implementing QAOA in 2018.
- Published collaborative research with Goldman Sachs and Airbus on real industry problems.

## Latest updates

- **2024-05** — Introduced QC Score, a fast drug-discovery scoring function targeting FEP-like accuracy in minutes.
- **2024-11** — Announced the return of the Q2B Silicon Valley conference with IBM as a platinum sponsor.
- **2025-09** — Hosted Q2B Paris quantum technologies conference.
- **2025-12** — Q2B Silicon Valley 2025 held at the Santa Clara Convention Center.

## Links

- Website: https://qcware.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/qcware
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/QCWare
- GitHub: https://github.com/qcware
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/qcware

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Last updated: 2026-07-11