Inside Horizon Quantum's office in Singapore on Dec. 3, 2025. The software firm claimed it is the first private company to deploy a commercial quantum computer in the city-state.
Singapore-based software firm Horizon Quantum on Wednesday said it has become the first private company to run a quantum computer for commercial use in the city-state, marking a milestone ahead of its plans to list in the U.S.
The start-up, founded in 2018 by quantum researcher Joe Fitzsimons, said the machine is now fully operational. It integrates components from quantum computing suppliers, including Maybell Quantum, Quantum Machines and Rigetti Computing .
According to Horizon Quantum, the new computer also makes it the first pure-play quantum software firm to own its own quantum computer — an integration it hopes will help advance the promising technology.
"Our focus is on helping developers to start harnessing quantum computers to do real-world work," Fitzsimons, the CEO, told CNBC. "How do we take full advantage of these systems? How do we program them?"
Horizon Quantum builds the software tools and infrastructure needed to power applications for quantum computing systems.
"Although we're very much focused on the software side, it's really important to understand how the stack works down to the physical level ... that's the reason we have a test bed now," Fitzsimons said.