Unitary Fund

Unitary Fund helps create an open quantum technology ecosystem that benefits the most people. It runs a micro-grant program, with $4k cash awards and no-strings attached, which has already made awards over 40 times to quantum explorers in over 14 countries. An advisory board of experts helps source and review applications. Anyone can apply, pitching personal projects ranging from quantum open-source libraries to quantum hardware prototypes. Unitary Fund has also an in-house research arm, Unitary Labs, which is focusing on research to improve the performance of noisy quantum computers with error mitigation, a set of strategies that reduce the effect of errors with a mix of quantum sampling and classical inference, for example, as in "zero-noise extrapolation".