ColibriTD Raises €4M to Scale Quantum-Powered Simulation Platform

Paris-based quantum software company ColibriTD has raised €4 million in a Seed funding round to scale its quantum-powered multiphysics simulation platform and expand its work with industrial enterprises.

The round was led by Earlybird Venture Capital, with participation from SymbiaVC and Medin VC. The new funding follows Earlybird's earlier €1 million pre-Seed investment in the company.

Founded in Paris in 2019 by Laurent Guiraud and Hacène Goudjil, ColibriTD is developing software designed to help industries solve complex mathematical and engineering problems using quantum computing.

Building Quantum Software for Industrial Simulation

ColibriTD's platform focuses on multiphysics simulation, an area used to model complex physical systems involving multiple interacting forces and phenomena.

At the center of the company's technology is H-DES, or Hybrid Differential Equation Solver, a proprietary variational quantum algorithm designed to solve partial differential equations (PDEs).

Partial differential equations are widely used across scientific and industrial applications, including fluid dynamics, material deformation, energy systems and financial risk modelling.

ColibriTD believes quantum computing can eventually provide new ways to solve some of these computationally demanding problems.

Bridging Quantum Computing and Industry

While much of the quantum computing ecosystem remains focused on hardware development, ColibriTD is concentrating on the software layer.

The company's platform is designed to work across different quantum computing hardware systems, allowing enterprises to explore quantum applications without being tied to a single hardware provider.

ColibriTD believes this hardware-agnostic approach could help businesses experiment with quantum technologies as the underlying hardware ecosystem continues to evolve.

The company argues that artificial intelligence and quantum computing serve different purposes in complex industrial applications. While AI can identify patterns and produce statistical approximations, physics-based simulation often requires precise mathematical solutions.

ColibriTD is targeting this gap with software designed around physics-based computational problems.

Applications Across Multiple Industries

ColibriTD says it has completed co-construction projects across six computationally demanding sectors.

Its work has included defence and aerospace applications such as radio-frequency design and combustion modelling for propulsion systems.

The company has also worked on problems related to space and climate science, semiconductor design, nuclear energy, automotive engineering and quantitative finance.

These projects are intended to demonstrate how quantum-powered simulation can be applied to real-world industrial problems rather than remaining limited to academic research.

Collaboration With IBM Quantum

ColibriTD's technology is also connected to IBM's quantum computing ecosystem.

The company's QUICK-PDE Qiskit Function is available through the Qiskit Function Catalogue for IBM Quantum Premium and Flex Plan users.

The integration gives researchers and developers access to ColibriTD's approach to solving partial differential equations through quantum computing tools.

The company sees this type of accessibility as important for moving quantum software from research environments toward practical industrial applications.

Seven Co-Construction Projects

According to ColibriTD, the company has completed seven successful co-construction projects across six sectors.

These projects involve working directly with organizations to identify specific computational problems and develop quantum-powered approaches around them.

The co-construction model allows ColibriTD to combine its quantum computing expertise with domain knowledge from industrial partners.

The company believes this approach can help identify practical use cases where quantum computing could deliver meaningful advantages as hardware capabilities improve.

New Funding to Accelerate R&D

ColibriTD plans to use the €4 million funding to accelerate research and development around its H-DES technology.

The company will also recruit quantum researchers and domain-specific engineers to support customer engagements and expand its technical capabilities.

Additional funding will go toward expanding hardware capabilities, strengthening academic and industrial partnerships and supporting international expansion.

ColibriTD is also actively looking for new co-construction partners across finance, defence, semiconductors, aerospace, automotive and energy.

Expanding the Quantum Software Opportunity

The new investment comes as quantum computing companies increasingly move from experimental research toward commercial applications.

For ColibriTD, the opportunity lies in developing software that can translate quantum computing capabilities into useful tools for industries dealing with complex simulation problems.

The company is positioning its platform as a decision layer between quantum computing hardware and industrial applications.

With its growing portfolio of industry projects, partnerships and proprietary algorithms, ColibriTD is aiming to help enterprises prepare for the potential advantages of quantum computing while the technology continues to mature.