BEIT, founded in Kraków in 2017 by former Google engineers Wojciech Burkot, Witold Jarnicki and Paulina Mazurek, develops quantum algorithms and computational chemistry software. Its Polish company was selected in the EIC Accelerator's January 2023 cut-off and received an EU grant of €2.50 million for COMFTQUA, "Enabling efficient computation on fault tolerant quantum computers", a €4.63 million project that ran from July 2023 to December 2025, according to CORDIS. The goal was algorithms and software that would make molecular simulations feasible on the first generation of error-corrected quantum computers, which have not yet been built.
The project is closed. Its final report lists several new algorithms, including a method it calls the first scalable relativistic quantum simulation, symmetry-based compression that cuts T-gate counts by about 40% for the FeMoCo catalyst, and a molecular dynamics technique with "up to 10⁵× resource reduction" for water, plus a quantum resource estimator, according to the CORDIS reporting page. Two results were published in the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation and the Journal of Chemical Physics in 2025, and a circuit tested on Quantinuum's H1-1 machine improved fidelity by up to 172%.
Company file
- Grant holder
- BEIT sp. z o.o., Kraków
- Related company
- BEIT Inc., incorporated in Delaware, August 2018
- Co-founders
- Wojciech Burkot, Witold Jarnicki, Paulina Mazurek
- Offices
- Kraków, Toronto, College Park (Maryland)
- Products
- CovAngelo, BDocker, BScorer, BFEP, QUBO solver
- Backers named
- Bloomberg Beta, European Innovation Council
- EIC funding
- Grant first
Where BEIT Stands Now
In April 2026 BEIT launched CovAngelo, a hybrid quantum-classical platform to model the chemical reaction by which covalent drugs bind to their targets, according to R&D World. Its website now presents the company as offering "integrated computational drug discovery for small-molecule teams", with docking, rescoring and free-energy tools. The company is part of NVIDIA's Inception programme for start-ups.
"We select [orbitals] based on their mutual communication, building interaction graphs, and then we further optimize and rotate them using unitary rotations to shrink the required information volume as much as possible. This saves immense computational resources, and ultimately, saves qubits."
Emil Żak, head of quantum algorithms, BEIT, 2026The Technology: Making Quantum Chemistry Cheaper
Simulating how electrons behave in complex molecules, such as the FeMoCo cluster that bacteria use to fix nitrogen, is beyond classical supercomputers at the accuracy chemists need. Future fault-tolerant quantum computers could do it, but only if the algorithms need few enough qubits and gates. BEIT's work reduces those counts, and its resource estimator calculates how big a machine each problem needs. The final report ties this to ammonia production, which it says uses about 4% of global energy.
What the EIC Award Promised, and What the Record Shows
The award promised quantum algorithms, resource-estimation methods and implementations validated in simulation and early hardware trials. The final report documents all three, with publications to back part of it. The results cannot yet produce value directly because fault-tolerant hardware does not exist; the company's sellable products run on today's GPUs and HPC.
- New algorithmsDeliveredSeveral, partly published.
- Resource estimatorDeliveredQRE software.
- Hardware validationPartialQuantinuum H1-1 test.
- Commercial useUnverifiedAwaits fault-tolerant hardware.
The Money
The EU paid 54% of the project's cost. BEIT is backed by Bloomberg Beta and the EIC, R&D World reports. Its revenue, losses and the size of its funding rounds could not be checked from free sources.
What Cannot Be Checked
Questions for the EIC
What BEIT's revenue is, whether its drug design customers pay for the EIC-funded quantum work, and which EIC results are protected by patents are not public.
Why Europe Should Care
Algorithms that make future quantum machines useful sooner could shorten the wait for practical quantum chemistry. The EIC funded this long-horizon research in a Polish company that also operates through the US-incorporated BEIT Inc.; its payoff depends on hardware milestones outside BEIT's control.
What the award promised
Algorithms and software to make molecular simulation feasible on fault-tolerant quantum computers.
What the record shows
Published algorithms and a resource estimator, while products for customers run on classical hardware.
The Verdict
Research delivered, market deferred
BEIT did the research the EIC paid for and published parts of it. It will only become a business when fault-tolerant quantum computers arrive.
BEIT and the EIC have not been asked for comment for this article. It is based entirely on public records and published statements, linked throughout.
