The concept traces back to Prof. Seth Lloyd’s 1993 proposal for globally controlled quantum computation. In May 2026, Lloyd joined Planckian as Founding Fellow, working alongside the team on quantum error correction strategies suited to globally controlled architectures.
Propagator Ventures backs Planckian’s approach to the superconducting quantum roadmap’s most underappreciated constraint: not the qubits themselves, but the classical infrastructure required to control them. A control paradigm that scales without a proportional increase in wiring is a credible path to processors at the scale fault-tolerant computing requires.
Planckian was founded in 2023 as the first joint spin-out of the University of Pisa and Scuola Normale Superiore.
Earlier backers include Eureka! Venture, CDP Venture Capital and Exor Ventures.