April 27, 2026
CTO Isaiah Hull gave closing remarks at the inaugural Nordic Quantum AI Community meeting at AWS in Stockholm, covering AI-for-quantum, calibration, pulse-level control, and circuit optimization.
April 14, 2026
Today is World Quantum Day, an annual celebration of quantum science and technology. The date was selected because 4.14 matches the rounded first three digits of Planck's constant.
March 31, 2026
Isaiah Hull will give a keynote on quantum technology at the inaugural Economic Data Science Society conference, hosted by Banque de France in Paris on July 9–10, 2026.
March 2, 2026
FirstQFM is pleased to welcome Sonja Yilmaz as Full Stack Developer and Emil Bobić as Front-End Developer, strengthening the company's product and engineering capacity.
February 12, 2026
FirstQFM attended Techarena 2026 at Strawberry Arena in Stockholm, meeting with investors, partners, and companies working across AI, quantum computing, and deep tech.
February 10, 2026
CTO Isaiah Hull will speak at Inside Quantum Technology's Q+AI 3.0 Conference, taking place October 25–27, 2026 in New York City, focused on the convergence of quantum computing and AI.
February 3, 2026
Dr. Helime Ruotsalainen joins FirstQFM as a Research Scientist, bringing a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Helsinki and expertise in quantum information and machine learning.
January 15, 2026
Luminar Ventures published a Founder Series interview with CEO Vish Ramakrishnan on FirstQFM's work on machine learning foundation models for quantum computing and the path to scale.
December 22, 2025
Tracxn named FirstQFM among recent important funding rounds by high-tech companies in Stockholm, highlighting the company's 2025 seed round.
December 17, 2025
Isaiah Hull visited the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond for CORE Week and gave a research seminar on quantum reservoir computing as a near-term approach to forecasting on noisy quantum devices.
December 11, 2025
FirstQFM attended Q2B25 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, meeting with hardware companies, software teams, and investors focused on the path from quantum research to commercial deployment.
November 27, 2025
FirstQFM submitted feedback to the European Commission on the EU Quantum Act, focusing on compute access, cross-stack coordination, and regulatory alignment for emerging quantum companies.
October 29, 2025
Isaiah Hull presented at the 3rd International Symposium on Quantum Computing and Musical Creativity, covering a quantum optimization formulation using neutral atom arrays.
October 23, 2025
Isaiah Hull spoke at Luminar Ventures' Angel Breakfast alongside speakers from Bright, Luminar Ventures, and Foundry Ventures, covering AI-native startups and Nordic tech trends.
October 17, 2025
Isaiah Hull presented on Quantum Reservoir Computing as part of the Fall 2025 Triangle Quantum Computing Seminar Series, hosted virtually by UNC.
October 15, 2025
The Quantum Insider covered FirstQFM's €1.2 million pre-seed round, highlighting the company's AI foundation models for quantum computing and its work with hardware developers on calibration and error correction.
October 10, 2025
FirstQFM has raised €1.2 million in seed funding, backed by BSV Ventures, Almi Invest, Further, and Luminar Ventures, to develop proprietary foundation models for quantum computing.
