QunaSys won “IT Japan Award 2022” Special Prize from Nikkei Business Publications' for our efforts on developing the quantum computing field towards applicability and the activities held at Quantum Practical Application Research Consortium (QPARC) to help industry companies learn and test.

QunaSys Inc. (“QunaSys”), one of the world's leading developers of innovative algorithms in chemistry focused on accelerating the development of quantum technology applicability, has announced today that it has raised $10 million in its series B funding stage the led by JIC Venture Growth Investments (“VGI”), with participation from ANRI, Fujitsu Ventures Fund LLC, Global Brain, HPC Systems Inc., JST SUCCESS Program, MUFJ Capital, Shinsei Corporate Investment Limited, and Zeon Corporation. Simultaneously, QunaSys has announced that it has come to an agreement with Zeon Corporation, Fujitsu Limited, and HPC Sytems Inc. for a capital tie-up and a business alliance. The investment means an important progress for QunaSys since the previous financing in 2019.

QunaSys Inc., the world's leading developer of innovative algorithms in chemistry sponsors and holds a Quantum Chemistry Challenge during the 2022 QHack Open Hackathon Week (February 14-25th) to develop quantum chemistry use-cases.

We posted a new preprint on efficient evaluation of energy expectation values on near-term quantum computers.

PsiQuantum and QunaSys, Inc. ("QunaSys") today announced a joint research project to assess the power of fault-tolerant quantum computing for industrial chemistry calculations aimed at accelerating the development of sustainable materials. JSR Corporation ("JSR") of Japan joined the project as an alpha customer and will evaluate quantum computing for advancements in the manufacture of photoresists, elastomers, plastics, and reagents.

QunaSys, Inc. ("QunaSys"), the world's leading developer of innovative algorithms in chemistry, announced the launch of the Cloud version of its Quantum Computation Platform "Qamuy™" in an event for 60+ participants from QPARC chemistry industry consortium for practical research applications supported by Amazon Web Services Japan ("AWS").

QunaSys Inc. is a sponsor of Quantum Week 2021 (Oct 17 - 21) the leading quantum computing event that bridges the gap between the science of quantum computing and the development of the surrounding industry.

QunaSys, Inc., a quantum technologies company with a particular focus on algorithm and software development led by TenninYan, has joined the Pistoia Alliance, a global non-profit alliance and an advocate for open innovation in the life sciences. Hereafter, QunaSys and the Pistoia Alliance would closely cooperate to utilize quantum computational technology for an innovation in the pharmaceutical industry.

We posted a preprint that extensively analyzes penalty methods in variational quantum eigensolver to obtain a specific symmetric quantum state.

Dr. Nakagawa at QunaSys, Dr. Yoshioka at RIKEN (former QunaSys intern), Dr. Ohnishi at JSR Corp., and Dr. Mizukami at Osaka Univ (QunaSys advisor) posted a preprint on the use of variational quantum algorithms to calculate the band structure of solid-state systems.