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ORCA Computing

ORCA Computing develops photonic quantum accelerators and software for hybrid computing workloads.

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orcacomputing.com·Crawled Oct 2, 2026·

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6 pages
  1. Applications/applications

    Quantum computing could impact vertical industries like energy and financial services, and cross cutting domains such as machine learning and HPC

  2. Defence/defence

    Origami Labs and ORCA built a hybrid multi-agent optimiser to improve intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR): coordinating jet-fighter sensor management and dynamic missile routing.

  3. Energy/energy

    Energy systems present some of the most computationally demanding optimisation challenges that exist: scheduling which power plants run to meet demand, predicting the molecular shapes that determine how new fuels perform, and siting wind farms across vast, interacting variables. As these problems grow in scale, classical methods are forced to make hard trade offs, sacrificing precision for speed.,

  4. Life Sciences/life-sciences

    On the QM9 benchmark, ORCA's quantum prior increased the number of valid and unique molecules while also producing substantially more novel candidates outside the training dataset.

Blog

6 pages
  1. Computing: How quantum computing will revolutionise AI and machine learning/computing-how-quantum-computing-will-revolutionise-ai-and-machine-learning

    Our Head of Machine Learning William Clements wrote a Computing article on the impact of quantum computing on AI & machine learning

  2. How quantum will enhance machine learning in finance/how-quantum-can-enhance-machine-learning-in-finance

    ORCA's Head of Machine Learning authored a Finance Derivative article on quantum's potential to boost financial sector machine learning.

  3. Inside Quantum Technology podcast/inside-quantum-technology-podcast

    Our CEO Richard Murray appeared on the Inside Quantum Technology podcast, talking about his journey to launching ORCA Computing.

  4. Quantum Computing Watts the Future/quantum-computing-watts-the-future

    Matt Watts CTE, NetApp interviewed our CEO Richard Murray about the impact quantum is going to have on computing.

Press

6 pages
  1. BBC Newsnight/orca-on-bbc-newsnight

    BBC Newsnight visited our office to interview our CEO Richard Murray about ORCA and why this investment is important for the UK.

  2. ORCA Computing and BT Group Showcase Technologies to enable Quantum Data Centres of the Future/orca-computing-and-bt-group-showcase-technologies-to-enable-quantum-data-centres-of-the-future

    ORCA Computing and BT Group hosted a demonstration day for businesses, universities, data centre providers and users.

  3. ORCA Computing to Deploy Quantum Photonics Testbed to UK National Quantum Computing Centre/orca-computing-to-deploy-quantum-photonics-testbed-to-uk-national-quantum-computing-centre

    ORCA Computing has been selected to build and supply a quantum computing testbed for the National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC).

  4. ORCA Computing Unveils First Demonstration of a Hybrid Algorithm Utilizing the ORCA PT-1 Photonic Quantum Processor and NVIDIA CUDA Quantum/orca-computing-unveils-first-demonstration-of-a-hybrid-algorithm-utilizing-the-orca-pt-1-photonic-quantum-processor-and-nvidia-cuda-quantum

    ORCA announces the 1st successful demo of a hybrid quantum/classical algorithm powered by ORCA’s PT Series System and NVIDIA CUDA Quantum.

Careers & Hiring

2 pages
  1. Careers/careers

    Interested in a career in quantum computing? Join ORCA’s fast-paced team of the very best entrepreneurs, quantum scientists, engineers and mathematicians

  2. Senior Pre-Sales Engineer – Applied ML / HPC – ORCA UK/senior-pre-sales-engineer

    Role Title: Senior Pre-Sales Engineer – Applied ML / HPC Reports to: Head of Solutions Architecture Location: Central London, Hybrid Employment Type: Full Time

Team

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  1. About ORCA/team

    ORCA Computing has built a team of experienced leaders in the sector to complement industry-leading quantum scientists, engineers and mathematicians

Contact

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  1. Contact Us/contact-us

    Spun out of the University of Oxford, ORCA Computing was founded in 2019 to deliver a completely new approach towards photonic quantum computing

Homepage

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  1. Homepage/

    ORCA Computing develops full-stack photonic quantum computers to address use-cases such as generative machine learning and optimisation

Privacy

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  1. Cookies Policy/cookies-policy

    Our website uses a number of cookies for a number of reasons. This policy explains how we use cookies. Before we can use some – but not all – of these cookies, we need your consent.

  2. Privacy Notice/privacy-notice

    Your privacy is important to ORCA Computing, and we are committed to safeguarding the privacy and security of the personal information in our care. This policy explains how we collect your personal information, what we do with it, and your rights in respect of it. We have a separate Cookies Policy which sets out similar information relating to the cookies that we use, which can be found here.