evolutionQ provides scalable defense-in-depth with PQC and QKD software solutions for resilience and quantum-safe security.
About evolutionQ
evolutionQ was co-founded by leading quantum-safe cryptography experts, Dr. Michele Mosca, Dr. Norbert Lütkenhaus, and Dr. David Jao.
With offices in Waterloo, Canada, and Aachen, Germany, evolutionQ delivers robust software that is revolutionizing the field of quantum-safe cryptography. Our pioneering Quantum Delivery Network (QDN) technology ensures quantum-safe key management deployments are secure, seamless, and resilient.
With a deep understanding of the quantum cybersecurity landscape, including the latest threats and trends, evolutionQ offers quantum-safe cybersecurity products to help clients deploy and manage quantum-safe technologies across their networks.
What We Do
evolutionQ is the quantum-safe company. We combine PQC and QKD to protect organizations using our next generation, scalable cybersecurity software solutions that provide cryptographic defense-in-depth and protect organizations from the risk of public-key cryptography being compromised.
We meet clients where they are to identify the solutions that best meet their needs.
Quick Facts
evolutionQ provides solutions to enable our customers to meet the challenges and seize the opportunities of the quantum era.
Our Team
Our team includes world-leading scientists, and industry experts who understand the solutions for the cybersecurity threats you face.
Founders & Executive Leadership
Dr. Michele Mosca
CEO & Co-founder
Dr. Mosca is one of the world's leading scientists in quantum computing, quantum cryptography, and conventional cryptography in an era with quantum technologies. He founded Canada's Institute for Quantum Computing, was a founding Faculty Member of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and co-authored the textbook An Introduction to Quantum Computing.
As a professor at the University of Waterloo, he pioneered study in quantum computing with the support of St. Jerome’s University’s Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research. The co-founder of CryptoWorks21, a training program in quantum-safe cryptography, Mosca instituted the Quantum Cryptography Summer School for Young Scientists at Waterloo’s Institute for Quantum Computing.
He co-founded evolutionQ Inc. to provide services and products to enable organizations to advance their quantum-vulnerable systems and practices to become quantum-safe.
Mosca has had a few accolades, too. In 2010, he was named Canada’s Top 40 Under 40; received the Governor General of Canada Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2013; and a Knighthood, Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 2018. Mosca also co-founded the not-for-profit Quantum-Safe Canada to boost efforts for creating a safer digital infrastructure in Canada as the quantum era unfolds.
Dr. Norbert Lutkenhaus
CTO & Co-founder
Dr. Lütkenhaus is a renowned leader in quantum communication, quantum cryptography, and quantum-safe cybersecurity. He is Vice-Chair of the ETSI Industry Specification Group on Quantum Key Distribution (QKD), coordinating the certification effort for QKD devices.
A professor at the University of Waterloo, Lütkenhaus is an academic high-tech leader, who has pioneered design and security analysis of Quantum Key Distribution protocols. He led the Theory Project of the European demonstrator network of quantum key distribution, Secure Communication based on Quantum Cryptography (SECOQC).
He has also led the Emmy Noether Research Group at University of Erlangen-Nurnberg.
Besides his academic and professional contributions, Lütkenhaus has volunteered for Big Brothers and Sisters for over 12 years.
Dr. David Jao
Chief Cryptographer & Co-founder
David Jao is a distinguished cryptographer who completed his PhD at Harvard and worked in the Cryptography and Anti-Piracy Group at Microsoft Research before joining the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo.
He is Director of the Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research (CACR) and leads a large research group in post-quantum or quantum-safe cryptography at the University of Waterloo.
Jao is an inventor of isogeny-based cryptography and does research in isogeny-based cryptography and post-quantum cryptography. He is one of the University of Waterloo’s favorite professors. Students have commented that while he is a tough grader, his lectures are fun and is easy to learn from.