With EU backing, QuantumDiamonds aims to speed up chip manufacturing

QuantumDiamonds is still at an earlier stage of its journey, but 2026 has been a year of international expansion for the startup, which opened a regional hub in Taiwan and completed its first commercial deployments both in Taiwan and in the U.S., where it installed a system at Eurofins EAG Laboratories in Sunnyvale, California.

However, its new funding will also generate jobs in Munich, where most of its team of 70 people is based. That’s also where Berghoff and his co-founder and CTO, Fleming Bruckmaier, plan to double its engineering team over the next 12 months, taking advantage of affordable talent both with quantum and with semiconductor expertise. “We have what we need here to ship overseas,” Berghoff said.