QuBeats, India's breakthrough deep-science company developing quantum sensing and advanced laser technologies, today announced that it has closed $15 million in its first institutional funding round, led by equity from Zoho Corporation, Indusbridge Ventures and National Quantum Mission, along with non-dilutive grant support from the Ministry of Defence's iDEX ADITI program.
The funding marks a major milestone for QuBeats as it scales from laboratory-grade quantum systems to industrial and defence-grade products designed in India for global markets.
Founded to build next-generation atomic, molecular and optical (AMO) technologies, QuBeats is developing a full-stack portfolio of quantum magnetometers, quantum gyroscopes, miniature atomic clocks, Rydberg-based RF receivers and radars, precision laser systems, and intelligent sensing software. These products are aimed at delivering unprecedented performance in navigation, detection, timing, communications resilience and situational awareness.
QuBeats represents the spirit of Atmanirbhar Bharat—building sovereign capabilities in strategic technologies where India has historically depended on imports. The company's mission is to create fully indigenous systems that strengthen national security while enabling commercial leadership in high-value precision manufacturing.
The company has already demonstrated working prototypes with world-class performance and has received commercial orders from defense, aerospace and space customers, validating strong product-market fit. QuBeats' systems are being designed for real-world dual use scenarios such as GPS-denied navigation for submarines and aircraft, underground anomaly detection, drone swarm detection, electronic warfare sensing, resilient battlefield communications, timing synchronisation for telecom and financial networks, satellite payload sensing, and precision monitoring for energy and critical infrastructure assets.
“As warfare and industry become more autonomous, intelligent sensing becomes foundational power,” said the founders in a joint statement. “The future battlefield will be shaped by UAVs, robotics, electronic warfare and precision decision-making. In all of these domains, whoever senses better, wins. QuBeats was founded to place India at the centre of this shift.”
The company combines frontier physics with advanced engineering through proprietary machine learning and digital signal processing (DSP) layers, including adaptive noise cancellation, sensor fusion, anomaly detection and intelligent calibration systems. This enables quantum hardware to perform reliably in rugged operational environments beyond the laboratory.
QuBeats has been working in close collaboration with TIFR Hyderabad and has also been selected for the emerging Amaravati Quantum Valley ecosystem, reinforcing its role in India's next-generation quantum innovation landscape.
The investors—Zoho Corporation and Indusbridge Ventures—bring long-term, technology-first capital and operational expertise to support QuBeats' expansion across defence, aerospace, space, maritime, energy and critical infrastructure markets. Equity participation from National Quantum Mission brings QuBeats into a select group of startups that will together be part of India's sovereign quantum stack.
QuBeats acknowledges the role of its early backers, government partners and pioneering customers, whose confidence, grants and purchase orders enabled the company to reach this inflection point. “Our first customers believed in us when quantum sensing was still considered experimental in India. Their trust helped convert frontier science into commercial reality,” the founders said.
With this funding, QuBeats will accelerate manufacturing scale-up, product certifications, talent hiring, export partnerships, sovereign supply chains and next-generation IP creation, as it works toward becoming one of the world's foremost companies in quantum sensing and advanced lasers.