QC Design CEO Ish Dhand Wins Newcomer of the Year at German Startup Awards

QC Design is proud to announce that its CEO and co-founder, Ish Dhand, has been awarded the prestigious Newcomer of the Year award at the German Startup Awards 2024.

The German Startup Awards, now in their fifth year, celebrate the most innovative and influential figures in the German startup ecosystem. This year's ceremony, held at the Tipi am Kanzleramt in Berlin, brought together over 500 guests from the worlds of business and politics. The event was inaugurated with an inspiring keynote address by Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck.

“This award is a testament to the hard work of the entire QC Design team. We are more motivated than ever to continue our mission of enabling the ultimate computing machines possible!” said Ish Dhand, CEO and co-founder of QC Design.

The German Startup Awards are organized by the Bundesverband Deutsche Startups e.V. and supported by exclusive partners such as PwC, Audi, Ströer, and Deutsche Börse Group, along with partners Commerzbank and Amazon Web Services. This event not only highlights the achievements of individual entrepreneurs but also emphasizes the vibrant and dynamic nature of the German startup scene.

In the past year, QC Design, has come out of stealth, launched its commercial software offering for fault-tolerance design automation and has announced the first customers of this offering.

About QC Design: QC Design is the leader in design-automation software and architectures for fault-tolerant quantum computing. QC Design’s fault tolerance design-automation software, Plaquette, enables quantum computing manufacturers to design fault-tolerance demonstrations and architectures at an order of magnitude lower cost than building and maintaining it inhouse. Plaquette is unrivalled in its ability to study the impact of real-world imperfections on the performance of fault-tolerance designs.