aid: photonic
name: Photonic
description: >-
  Photonic Inc. is a Vancouver, British Columbia deep-tech company founded in 2016 by Dr. Stephanie
  Simmons and led by CEO Dr. Paul Terry, building distributed, fault-tolerant quantum computing and
  quantum networking on silicon T centre spin-photon qubits. Its "Entanglement First" architecture
  couples qubits that compute, store and emit telecom-band photons natively, so individual modules can
  be entangled over ordinary telecom fibre rather than scaled inside a single dilution refrigerator,
  and its SHYPS QLDPC error-correction codes cut the physical-qubit overhead of fault tolerance.
  Backed by Microsoft, British Columbia Investment Management Corp, RBC and TELUS, selected for Stage B
  of DARPA's Quantum Benchmarking Initiative, and intending to deliver quantum computing through Azure
  and private systems. As of this profile Photonic is pre-commercial from an integration standpoint: it
  publishes no API, SDK, developer portal or machine-readable contract of any kind.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/photonic/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
image: https://photonic.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/cropped-Photonic_Symbol_Blue_white_space-192x192.png
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-26'
modified: '2026-08-26'
tags:
- Company
- Quantum Computing
- Quantum Networking
- Silicon Photonics
- Semiconductors
- Deep Tech
- Research
- Hardware
- Canada
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/photonic-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://photonic.com/
- type: About
  url: https://photonic.com/about-us/
- type: Products
  url: https://photonic.com/products/
- type: Technology
  url: https://photonic.com/technology/
- type: Blog
  url: https://photonic.com/blog/
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://photonic.com/blog/feed/
- type: PressRoom
  url: https://photonic.com/press-room/
- type: Resources
  url: https://photonic.com/resources/
- type: Careers
  url: https://photonic.com/careers/
- type: Contact
  url: https://photonic.com/contact/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/PhotonicInc
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://photonic.com/privacy-policy/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://photonic.com/terms-and-conditions/
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/photonic-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-26'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 3
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: no-developer-program
  detail: >-
    Photonic Inc. is a pre-commercial quantum-hardware company whose entire web presence is a
    WordPress marketing site — /developers/, /docs/ and /api/ all return 404, no OpenAPI/Swagger
    responds at any probed path, every /.well-known/ path 404s, and the PhotonicInc GitHub org holds
    a single QLDPC research repository with no client library, so there is no developer program to
    profile rather than one we could not reach.
  evidence:
    - url: https://photonic.com/developers/
      status: 404
    - url: https://photonic.com/openapi.json
      status: 404
    - url: https://photonic.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
      status: 404
    - url: https://photonic.com/llms.txt
      status: 200
    - url: https://api.github.com/orgs/PhotonicInc
      status: 200
  checked: '2026-08-26'