Q.ANT opens US HQ in Austin to scale photonic processors

Q.ANT has announced the opening of its U.S. headquarters in Austin, Texas and the appointment of Bruno Spruth as Chief Technology Officer.

• Main announcement: Q.ANT has opened its U.S. headquarters in Austin, Texas, appointed Bruno Spruth as CTO, and plans to increase U.S. headcount to 20 employees over the next six months; the company also plans to localize chip manufacturing as it brings commercial photonic processors to North America and will operate a Native Processing Server as a PCIe co-processor in existing data centers.
• Background and details: Q.ANT closed a USD80 million Series A from investors including Duquesne Family Office, Hermann Hauser, Cherry Ventures, UVC Ventures, L-Bank, imec.xpand, Verve Ventures, Grazia Equity, EXF Alpha, LEA Partners, Onsight Ventures, and TRUMPF; it deployed the first commercial photonic processor in production at LRZ in 2025 and claims NPUs deliver up to 30x energy efficiency and 50x performance versus conventional processors. The article references U.S. companies committing over $690 billion to AI infrastructure in 2026 as market context.