# Qunnect

> Qunnect is a New York-based deep-tech company building hardware that turns ordinary telecom fiber into scalable quantum networks. Its room-temperature, field-deployable devices distribute entangled photons over existing infrastructure - no cryogenics or vacuum chambers required. The flagship Carina product suite powers real-world quantum testbeds in New York and Berlin, and is sold to customers across finance, energy, telecom, and defense.

- **Founded:** 2017
- **Headquarters:** Brooklyn, New York, United States
- **Founders:** Mehdi Namazi (Co-founder & Chief Science Officer), Mael Flament (Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer), Eden Figueroa (Co-founder (Stony Brook University)), Noel Goddard (CEO (joined 2020))
- **Team size:** ~40 employees
- **Products:** Carina Product Suite, QU-SOURCE, QU-LOCK, QU-APC, QU-MEMORY
- **Notable:** Operated GothamQ, a prototype quantum network under NYC streets, for 15 continuous days at 99.84% uptime., Distributed ~20,000 polarization-entangled photon pairs per second with ~99% compensation fidelity over a 34km fiber loop., First company to deploy quantum entanglement-based protocols over commercial fiber.

## Products & services

- **Carina Product Suite** — A turn-key family of quantum networking devices that enables scalable, entanglement-based networks over commercial fiber at room temperature.
- **QU-SOURCE** — An entangled photon-pair source producing exceptionally pure polarization-entangled photons.
- **QU-LOCK** — A high-precision, multifrequency laser reference for stabilizing quantum hardware.
- **QU-APC** — An auto polarization compensator that actively corrects real-time fiber noise from environmental perturbations.
- **QU-MEMORY** — Room-temperature, field-deployable quantum memory developed from the founding team's Stony Brook research.

## Achievements

- Operated GothamQ, a prototype quantum network under NYC streets, for 15 continuous days at 99.84% uptime.
- Distributed ~20,000 polarization-entangled photon pairs per second with ~99% compensation fidelity over a 34km fiber loop.
- First company to deploy quantum entanglement-based protocols over commercial fiber.
- Demonstrated entanglement swapping at ~5,400 pairs/hour over deployed fiber - nearly 10,000x better than prior benchmarks.
- Selected by Deutsche Telekom T-Labs for the BearlinQ network in Berlin.

## Latest updates

- **2026-02** — Qunnect and Cisco demonstrated the first metro-scale, high-speed quantum entanglement swapping over commercial fiber.
- **2025-11** — Co-launched ABQ-Net, New Mexico's first quantum network, with Roadrunner Venture Studios.
- **2025-10** — U.S. Air Force tapped Qunnect to advance quantum networking for defense applications.
- **2025-09** — Carina suite deployed at Montana State University for the first quantum entanglement network in the Northwestern U.S.
- **2025-06** — Closed $10M oversubscribed Series A extension led by Airbus Ventures with Cisco Investments and Quantonation.

## Links

- Website: https://www.qunnect.inc
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/qunnectinc/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/qunnectinc
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCauAMZJazDfy5bbv7xzLS4A

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Last updated: 2026-06-07