![From left: Luigi Frunzio, Robert Schoelkopf, and Michel Devoret. (Photo by Brita Belli)](https://rsl.yale.edu/sites/default/files/styles/adaptive/adaptive-image/public/quantumcircuitsfounders2.jpg?itok=xqwyRWnk)
Photo by Brita Belli
November 14, 2017
Quantum Circuits Inc. (QCI), a startup founded by Yale scientists Michel Devoret, Luigi Frunzio, and Robert Schoelkopf, has raised $18 million in venture funding to build and sell the first practical and useful quantum computers.