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The company in short
Quanscient is the first cloud- and quantum-powered multiphysics simulation software provider. Its cloud-native platform, Quanscient Allsolve, lets engineers run thousands of design alternatives in parallel, accelerating product development and reducing reliance on physical prototypes. Trusted by organizations across Europe, North America, and Japan — including Infineon Technologies, imec, UKAEA and KROHNE — Quanscient is building the foundation for physics-aware AI and data-driven hardware design.
| Founded | 2021 |
| Headquarters | Tampere, Finland |
| Employees | ~40 |
| Nationalities | 15 |
| Total funding | ~€19M (incl. €10M Series A, 2026) |
| Investors | 55 North, B&C Group, Maki.vc, Crowberry Capital |
| Peer-reviewed publications | 20+ |
The people behind Quanscient
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Juha RiippiCEO & Co-Founder
Juha Riippi is CEO and co-founder of Quanscient, with more than two decades in software development, cloud computing, and digitalisation across engineering, international sales, and executive roles. Before founding Quanscient, he spent 12 years helping build and scale Vincit into one of Finland's leading software companies. He leads Quanscient's commercial strategy and international expansion. |
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Dr. Alexandre HalbachCo-CTO & Co-Founder
Dr. Alexandre Halbach is Co-CTO and co-founder of Quanscient, where he leads development of the company's multiphysics simulation algorithms. He was previously a postdoctoral researcher at Tampere University working with CERN on superconducting particle accelerator magnets, and a MEMS design engineer at imec, where he created the open-source finite element library SparseLizard, the technological foundation for Quanscient Allsolve. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Université de Liège. |
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Asser LähdemäkiCPO & Co-Founder
Asser Lähdemäki is CPO and co-founder of Quanscient, leading application and cloud infrastructure development for the Allsolve platform. He previously worked in a growth-stage software company and as a researcher in the Computational Electromagnetics Group at Tampere University of Technology. He holds an MSc in Electromagnetics with a minor in Software Engineering from the same university. |
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Dr. Valtteri LahtinenChief Scientist & Co-Founder
Dr. Valtteri Lahtinen is Chief Scientist and co-founder of Quanscient, with over 15 years of work at the intersection of computational physics, mathematics, and quantum technologies. He has held research positions at Tampere University, Aalto University, Boston University, the University of Montreal, and the University of Bologna, and holds a PhD in applied superconductivity. At Quanscient he leads Quantum Labs, developing next-generation quantum algorithms for simulation. |
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Dr. Andrew TweedieCo-CTO & Co-Founder
Dr. Andrew Tweedie is Co-CTO and co-founder of Quanscient, with more than 20 years in engineering simulation and deep tech. He founded Kogsys, which builds software and hardware for the ultrasound industry, and earlier co-founded OnScale, the first cloud SaaS solution for engineering simulation. He holds an Engineering Doctorate from the University of Strathclyde and CEng certification from the Institution of Engineering and Technology. |
Brand and imagery
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Founder & team images
Individual headshots for all five founders plus a team group shot, consistent crop and background.

Product images
Allsolve platform screenshots and representative simulation results — stellarator, superconducting, and CFD renders.

Logos
Corporate and Allsolve marks in colour, mono, and reversed variants for light and dark backgrounds.
News and press releases
Quanscient raises €10M – leads the shift to quantum- and AI-native hardware engineering
Quanscient and Haiqu announce breakthrough algorithm for scalable computational fluid simulations on quantum computers
Selected publications
A selection of peer-reviewed work across cloud simulation and quantum algorithms. The full list is linked below.
Media contact
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