DUBLIN, IRELAND · STELOR EVOLUTION LTD · FOUNDED 2026
About QubitBoost
QubitBoost is building the vendor-neutral performance layer for quantum error correction.
Quantum error correction is the gate to useful quantum compute, and every team is racing to push their logical error rate down. We sit one step upstream of the decoder: we correct the error model your decoder reads, before it decodes, so the decoder you already run reports a lower logical error rate. Validated on real neutral-atom and superconducting hardware data, with a built-in guard that never makes it worse.
FOUNDER
Mike Walshe
Founder and CEO, Stelor Evolution Ltd. Dublin.
Background in physics, software electronic systems, and A.I. Builds QubitBoost with the discipline the quantum industry has not yet adopted: adversarial red-team review of every number, public retraction when methodology reveals inflation, and block-stratified drift analysis on every hardware run.
LinkedIn →Why Now
- NOV 2025IBM Nighthawk ships. Quantum compute is now a billed line item at per-minute utility-tier rates.
- FEB 2026Classiq closes $110M Series C, Riverlane $75M. The compiler and decoder layers are claimed. The vendor-neutral performance layer across them is still open.
- APR 2026qb-compiler accepted to the IBM Quantum Ecosystem alongside the other algorithm vendors. Free distribution into the IBM Qiskit user base, Apache 2.0 telemetry surface, paid SDK on top.
- APR 2026Algorithmiq wins the Wellcome Q4Bio prize on 100 qubits of IBM Heron. The workload shipped without independent verification. That is the gap we fill.
What We Do
QubitBoost is the performance layer that sits above existing quantum SDKs and decoders. It lowers the logical error rate of the decoder you already run, improves runtime efficiency across the run, and returns a signed Result Passport for every execution.
What that looks like in practice:
- • Correct the error model your decoder reads, before it decodes, so the decoder you already run reports a lower logical error rate.
- • Keep your decoder, your control stack, and your compiler exactly as they are.
- • Guard every run so the adaptation never makes the result worse.
- • Certify the execution and sign the result.
Where We Sit
We do not replace your decoder (Riverlane and your in-house stack own that), your control stack (Q-CTRL), or your compiler (Classiq). We sit one step upstream: we correct the error model your decoder reads, before it decodes, so the decoder you already run reports a lower logical error rate, with a built-in guard that never makes it worse. Vendor-neutral, a complement to the incumbents rather than a competitor. We also own the signed record of the result.
Credentials
- ✓IBM Quantum Ecosystem member (qb-compiler, tagged Error Mitigation + Circuit Optimization, April 2026).
- ✓qb-compiler published on PyPI under Apache 2.0. Calibration-aware compiler.
- ✓201,000 per-shot labelled hardware records across four vendors (IBM, Rigetti, IonQ, IQM) and eight backends.
- ✓Five public retractions logged in Q1 2026. Every number on qubitboost.io is drift-stratified and methodology-verified.
Roadmap
- Q2 2026First paid pilot. Methodology paper to arXiv. Qiskit Functions Catalog submission.
- Q3 2026Qiskit Functions Catalog acceptance. Raw 201K-shot dataset public on Zenodo.
- Q4 2026Second pilot. First enterprise contract with SLA. Seed raise opens.
- Q1 2027Seed close. Hiring: commercial lead, QEC research engineer, compliance engineer.
What We Do Not Do
We are not an SDK, not a decoder, not a workflow engine, not a job scheduler. We do not claim quantum advantage. We do not invent customers. We do not publish a number on this site that is not drift-stratified and traceable to a hardware experiment directory.