CavilinQ raises $8.8M
CavilinQ announced a Seed round of $8.8M on 2 April 2026. The company operates in Robotics & Hardware and is based in United States. It was founded by Shankar Menon, CEO & Co-founder.
Industry
Robotics & Hardware
Founder
Shankar Menon
CEO & Co-founder, CavilinQ
Outreach angles
- -Shankar completed his PhD at University of Chicago in 2025, spinning CavilinQ directly out of his doctoral research on photonic quantum interconnects.
- -He co-founded the company alongside renowned quantum scientists Mikhail Lukin (Harvard) and Hannes Bernien (UChicago), giving CavilinQ direct access to world-class quantum networking research.
- -The $8.8M seed led by QVT Ventures will fund development of modular interconnects that link multiple quantum processors into a unified distributed system - a critical missing piece for utility-scale quantum computing.
Signals
SeedDeep TechSecond-Time FounderB2BHiringRevenue-Generating
Round details
Company: CavilinQ
Domain: cavilinq.com
Amount: $8.8M
Stage: Seed
Industry: Robotics & Hardware
Country: United States
Announced: 2 April 2026
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