ATOMOLOGY: Closes RMB 100 Million-Level Angel Round Co-Led by CIIF and Muhua Kechuang, Targeting Engineered Neutral-Atom Quantum Computing

NewTimeSpace News: On 11 November 2026, Yuanji (Shanghai) Quantum Technology Co., Ltd. (Atomology, unlisted) closed an angel round described as RMB 100 million-level, co-led by China Internet Investment Fund (CIIF) and Tsinghua-affiliated investor Muhua Kechuang, with nearly 10 other institutions following on. The exact amount and post-money valuation were not disclosed. Proceeds will be used mainly for core technology research and development, engineering platform construction and core team expansion, moving its neutral-atom quantum computing systems from laboratory prototypes toward engineering.

ATOMOLOGY was founded in April 2026 and was incubated by TuringQ, a domestic photonic quantum computing company, and focuses on the neutral-atom route. More than 80 per cent of its staff work in research and development and more than 90 per cent hold master's or doctoral degrees; the core team worked for years at the Institute of Integrated Quantum Information Technology (IQIT) of Shanghai Jiao Tong University and has over 20 years of accumulated work in neutral atoms, metasurfaces, photonic chips and quantum detection.

ATOMOLOGY summarises its approach in two lines, chipisation and modularisation. On chipisation, the company uses self-developed metasurface photonic chips to generate high-density static optical tweezer arrays at the million level on a single chip, and combines on-chip modulators with femtosecond-laser direct-written three-dimensional optical waveguides. The company says its on-chip control chip bandwidth has exceeded 110 GHz and the iteration cycle for high-density optical waveguides has been shortened to 3 days. On modularisation, it decouples high-power optical paths, atom transport and quantum detection modules that cannot yet be placed on chips into standardised modules.

In research and development, ATOMOLOGY's first phase, M1, targets stable continuous refilling and a closed high-fidelity imaging loop for a 100,000-level atom array, and its second phase, M2, moves toward a million-level array with architectural validation of a partitioned processor; its stated targets include bandwidth above 200 MHz and optical tweezer reconfiguration time of less than 50 milliseconds in the reconfigurable phase, and a single-qubit gate fidelity above 99.99%. On commercialisation, the company plans to focus on engineering product development over the next 2 to 3 years, with scenarios oriented toward quantum computing centres, biopharmaceuticals and financial optimisation. CIIF had previously invested in Origin Quantum on the superconducting route and TuringQ on the photonic route, and this round adds the neutral-atom route.