QNu Labs (or QuNu Labs Private Limited) is a cybersecurity company headquartered in
Bengaluru
Bengaluru, also known as Bangalore (List of renamed places in India#Karnataka, its official name until 1 November 2014), is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the southern States and union territories of India, Indian state of Kar ...
, India. It is credited to be the first firm in India to successfully develop commercial cybersecurity products using
quantum physics
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.
It has a subsidiary called QNu Labs Inc, which was set up in
Massachusetts
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, US in 2019.
The company was founded in 2016 by Sunil Gupta, Srinivasa Rao Aluri, Mark Mathias, and Anil Prabhakar. It was incubated at
Indian Institute of Technology-Madras and later began operations in Bengaluru.
After conducting field trials for its quantum key distribution product, QNu Labs received support from
Cisco
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Launchpad in 2018.
Subsequently, it launched two products—a quantum key distributor called Armos and a quantum random number generator called Tropos—for national and international markets in 2020.
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Company WebsiteDRDO tests quantum key distribution tech for secure communication between two facilitiesBudget 2020 announces Rs 8,000 crore national mission on quantum technologies and applicationsIndia's billion-dollar quantum pushThe Race Is On
Quantum cryptography
Indian companies established in 2016
Companies based in Karnataka
Technology companies of India
Technology companies established in 2016