On July 6th, the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) website disclosed that Beijing Boson Quantum Technology Co., Ltd. has completed its pre-IPO counseling registration with the Beijing regulatory bureau, formally commencing its counseling process for an initial public offering and listing.
The counseling registration report indicates the company operates in the computer, communication, and other electronic equipment manufacturing sector, with a registered capital of 360 million yuan. Its legal representative and controlling shareholder, Wen Kai, holds a 21.51% stake. Haitong Securities is serving as the counseling institution.
Established in November 2020, Boson Quantum is understood to be one of the key players in the race for capital market entry within China's quantum computing sector.
Currently, the global quantum computing industry faces a choice between "universal" and "specialized" development paths. In contrast to pursuing a general-purpose quantum computer, which has extremely high technical barriers and a distant timeline for practical application, Boson Quantum's differentiated strategy focuses on coherent optical quantum technology and specialized quantum computers.
From a technical perspective, specialized quantum computers sacrifice universality to accelerate the solving of specific mathematical models, such as combinatorial optimization problems. In May 2026, Boson Quantum released its new-generation model, "Yuliang · Shanhai 1000." Public data shows this device supports 1000 computational qubits in standard mode and up to 3000 computational qubits in overclocking mode.
Regarding commercial implementation, Boson Quantum currently primarily provides its computing power by offering an open software development kit (SDK). According to the company, its SDK has surpassed 100 million cumulative calls, with partner companies including XtalPi, Shenzhen Metro, and Ping An Group. Some test data indicates significant reductions in processing time for specific problem-solving scenarios.
With the disclosure of the counseling registration, Boson Quantum's capital funding history has also come to light.
In less than six years since its founding, the company has completed a total of 10 funding rounds. In the first half of 2026 alone, Boson Quantum completed two major financings: a 1 billion yuan Series B round in March involving multiple participants, and a recent pre-IPO round worth hundreds of millions of yuan jointly funded by local state-owned capital and industrial investors, including Hangzhou Industrial Investment and Fuzhou State-owned Assets.
This intensive capital support stems partly from the explicit mention of "developing scalable specialized quantum computers" in the national 15th Five-Year Plan, providing high-level policy endorsement for this niche. On the other hand, it reflects a shift in the investment logic of the primary market towards hard technology.
Following earlier bets on technological prototypes, current funding is increasingly concentrated on companies with mass manufacturing capabilities and clear application scenarios. Compared to the universal approach, the specialized quantum path, being closer to practical industrial application and cash flow, has gained substantial valuation premiums.
As leading companies like Boson Quantum and Origin Quantum enter the pre-IPO or counseling stages, the capital market debut for China's quantum computing sector is underway. However, from an objective industry standpoint, the sector as a whole remains in a phase of commercial experimentation.
Currently, Boson Quantum's collaborations with leading companies across various industries mostly remain at the level of joint R&D, proof-of-concept projects, or co-building computing platforms.
To what extent can the over 100 million SDK calls translate into actual software licensing fees, computing power subscription fees, or complete system sales revenue? What are the company's current average customer contract value, gross margin, and yield rate for mass hardware production? These core financial metrics, which reflect the company's actual "self-sustaining" capability, await detailed disclosure in its prospectus.
Faced with the continuous performance improvements of classical computing through architectural evolution, whether enterprise clients have sufficient incentive to pay the high procurement and business system migration costs for specialized quantum computing power remains a question for the market to answer over the long term.
For Boson Quantum in its sprint to the capital markets, while iterating on technical parameters is important, the core challenge it faces is whether it can deliver sustained and healthy commercial revenue on its financial statements.
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