Prize

Qilimanjaro wins 4YFN Awards 2024

The IFAE spin-off ​​Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech, was recognized at the Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2024 as the best digital start-up in the world.

The company was chosen as the winner of the 4YFN Awards, a global start-up competition aimed at finding the best emerging companies from around the planet that represents the highest recognition offered to start-ups at the MWC.

Qilimanjaro has been elected “best startup” of the University of Barcelona (2021), the “best deeptech startup” at “Deeptech Barcelona” (2022), one of the ten selected European deeptech startups by Intel (2023) and now the “best startup” of the international MWC 4YFN24 (2024).

Latest Group News

Role

Pol Forn Appointed as Spain’s Representative to CERN’s Quantum Technology Initiative Advisory Board

March 13, 2025

The CERN Quantum Technology Initiative (CERN QTI) has defined a roadmap and research programme in collaboration with its advisory board, as well as the high-energy physics and quantum-technology research communities

Publication

New publication by the QCT group

February 13, 2025

“Cosmic muon flux attenuation methods for superconducting qubit experiments” by Elia Bertoldo, Manel Martínez, Pol Forn and collaborators

Instrumentation

Brussels Approves the Installation of the Quantum Computer MareNostrum-Ona in Barcelona

January 30, 2025

Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech will develop the MareNostrum-Ona quantum computer, which will be installed at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC).