Multiverse Computing combines the potential of this technology with AI to develop projects in various sectors, from defining how to put together an investment portfolio, for example, to anticipating the consumption of a neighborhood or an entire town.

It has almost half a century of history, but it is still considered an emerging technology destined to revolutionize different sectors. Its chronology dates back to the early 1980s, when physicists Richard Feynman and Paul Benioff began to question whether the laws of quantum mechanics could be used to find solutions to problems that classical computers could not address. This is how, broadly speaking, quantum computing emerged. This alternative to traditional computing makes it possible to solve complex problems thanks, fundamentally, to its ability to process enormous amounts of data quickly and efficiently.

These principles inspired in 2017 the founders of what is today one of the quantum software companies in Europe and the world: Multiverse Computing. They were born in a WhatsApp group, recalls its CEO, Enrique Lizaso. At that time, he met Alfonso Rubio (CMO), Román Orús (CSO) and Samuel Mugel (CTO) at the Quantum World Association, a non-profit working group that sought to explain how we were going to use quantum computing, which was just beginning at that time, to do things for the good of humanity.

The company - whose headquarters are located in San Sebastián (Guipúzcoa) but has offices in Toronto, Paris, London, Munich, Milan and San Francisco - combines the potential of quantum computing and artificial intelligence (AI) to develop optimization solutions adapted to different sectors.

Its Singularity software enables companies of any size to take advantage of quantum capabilities without needing to have in-depth knowledge of this type of computing.

But there is more. Their CompactfAI compressor allows large language models to be compressed (up to a maximum of 95%) making them cheaper and more energy efficient with all that this entails.

The fusion of quantum computing and AI has led them to develop projects in the most diverse areas. In the financial sector, for example, they began by applying their technology to define how to put together an investment portfolio and today they put it to the service of assessing all the risks taken by financial institutions.

In the energy sector they have done things like predicting what the consumption of households, neighbourhoods and entire towns will be, which can then be used to design specific offers. Their technology also allows predictive and preventive maintenance tasks to be carried out in industry or health, among others. This is possible thanks to the application of some of the Basque company's algorithms and tools.

In 2024, it was recognized with the Future Unicorn Award, an award that highlights emerging European startups with the potential to become global technology leaders and reach a valuation of $1 billion.