{"id":994532,"date":"2026-02-25T10:07:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T04:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=994532"},"modified":"2026-02-25T11:11:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T05:41:45","slug":"iqm-quantum-computers-to-list-shares-in-us-at-initial-1-8-billion-valuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/25\/iqm-quantum-computers-to-list-shares-in-us-at-initial-1-8-billion-valuation\/","title":{"rendered":"IQM Quantum Computers to list shares in US at initial $1.8 billion valuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finnish-headquartered IQM Quantum Computers is aiming to list its shares on the US stock market via a merger with a special purpose \u200cacquisition company \u2060Real \u2060Asset Acquisition, the companies said on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>The transaction will give the European company an initial equity valuation of around $1.8 billion, IQM said. Quantum computers, which are much faster than conventional computers, are seen as crucial for cybersecurity, attracting funding from such tech giants as Microsoft, Alphabet , IBM and Cisco as well as interest from several governments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finnish-headquartered IQM Quantum Computers is aiming to list its shares on the US stock market via a merger with a special purpose \u200cacquisition company \u2060Real \u2060Asset Acquisition, the companies said on Monday. The transaction will give the European company an initial equity valuation of around $1.8 billion, IQM said. Quantum computers, which are much faster than conventional computers, are seen as crucial for cybersecurity, attracting funding from such tech giants as Microsoft, Alphabet , IBM and Cisco as well as interest from several governments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}