{"id":890371,"date":"2026-02-05T18:12:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T00:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/05\/qt-sense-raises-e4m-to-advance-a-quantum-sensing-platform\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T18:12:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T00:12:50","slug":"qt-sense-raises-e4m-to-advance-a-quantum-sensing-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/05\/qt-sense-raises-e4m-to-advance-a-quantum-sensing-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"QT Sense raises \u20ac4M to advance a quantum sensing platform"},"content":{"rendered":"
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QT Sense<\/span><\/i>, a deep-tech biotech startup building tools to study living cells, announced it has secured <\/span>\u20ac4 million<\/b> in funding to accelerate its <\/span>Quantum Nuova<\/b> platform, a technology that lets scientists observe cellular processes in real time and reveal biochemical activity linked to disease.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The funding includes a <\/span>\u20ac3 million seed investment<\/b> led by <\/span>Cottonwood Technology Fund<\/b>, with follow-on backing from existing investor <\/span>QDNL Participations<\/b> and an angel investor. <\/span><\/p>\n

In addition, the company received \u20ac600,000 from the ONCO-Q programme to support cancer research and \u20ac400,000 through the Quantum Forward Challenge for collaborative deployments with research partners.<\/p>\n

Most traditional lab methods rely on frozen tissue or cells that are no longer alive, giving scientists only static snapshots of biology. <\/span><\/p>\n

By contrast, Quantum Nuova<\/a> lets researchers measure cellular stress and biological changes <\/span>as they happen<\/span><\/i> in living cells. The platform uses <\/span>ultra-sensitive fluorescent nanodiamond quantum sensors<\/strong> that detect signals such as <\/span>oxidative stress, metabolic shifts, and free radical activity, biological processes that play a role in how diseases develop and how cells respond to treatments.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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These signals are central to understanding diseases like <\/span>cancer, sepsis, and chronic inflammatory conditions<\/b>, but have been difficult to watch directly until now. <\/span><\/p>\n

With Quantum Nuova, scientists can see how individual cells react to drugs, adapt to stress, or split into different subgroups. That adds a layer of insight beyond what genetics, traditional imaging, or fixed-cell methods can provide.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The technology has already been used to study\u00a0how FDA-approved\u00a0drugs affect cells. With the new\u00a0funding\u00a0from ONCO-Q, the company\u00a0plans\u00a0to apply it specifically to <\/span>colorectal cancer research<\/b>, mapping stress\u00a0and metabolic vulnerabilities\u00a0in tumour models to support the development of future\u00a0diagnostics and therapies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

QT Sense was spun out of the <\/span>University Medical Center Groningen<\/b> in 2024, building on academic research into quantum sensing and cellular biology. <\/span><\/p>\n

The team aims to turn what is now a high-performance prototype into a <\/span>ready-to-deploy discovery platform for laboratories and drug discovery programmes. Planned upgrades include improvements in hardware robustness, throughput, and analytical capabilities. <\/span><\/p>\n

Early access units are expected to go to strategic partners as part of validation and real-world\u00a0use cases.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What QT Sense is doing\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n

QT Sense is developing a <\/span>new kind of research tool<\/b> that lets scientists <\/span>watch what cells do while they are alive<\/span><\/i>. That\u2019s an important difference from most existing tools, which require cells to be killed or frozen first.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

At the core of their approach are <\/span>tiny particles called nanodiamonds<\/b> with special defects inside them. When these nanodiamonds are placed near a living cell and exposed to a laser, they glow. <\/span><\/p>\n

The way they glow changes slightly in response to tiny chemical signals inside the cell, for example, when the cell is under stress or reacting to a drug. QT Sense\u2019s system measures these changes and turns them into data that researchers can interpret.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This means scientists can see <\/span>how cells behave and respond in real time<\/b>, instead of looking only at snapshots taken after a cell has been killed.<\/span><\/p>\n

For disease research and drug development, that matters because many important processes how a cancer cell responds to a treatment or how immune cells react to infection, happen dynamically and can be missed by older methods.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

By providing a live view of cell behaviour at the individual cell level, QT Sense\u2019s Quantum Nuova platform could help researchers uncover new<\/span> clues about how diseases work, which drugs are effective, and how treatments can be improved.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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QT Sense , a deep-tech biotech startup building tools to study living cells, announced it has secured \u20ac4 million in funding to accelerate its Quantum Nuova platform, a technology that lets scientists observe cellular processes in real time and reveal biochemical activity linked to disease.\u00a0 The funding includes a \u20ac3 million seed investment led by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":890372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2030,22106,46],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-890371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-raises","8":"category-sense","9":"category-technology"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}