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Digital Catapult and NQCC Launch Third QTAP Cohort, Introducing Banking and Healthcare Streams
Digital Catapult and the National Quantum Computing Centre have launched a third cohort of their Quantum Technology Access Programme, expanding into banking and healthcare with 11 participants including NatWest, NHS Innovation, and specialist deeptech firms. Participants gain access to ORCA Computing's PT-2 photonic quantum computer and cloud simulation environments to develop quantum machine learning and optimisation applications across financial crime detection, rare disease diagnostics, transport, logistics, and semiconductor control.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Quantum Computing, Fintech and Medtech. Wire is Fusion42's founder-focused intelligence feed: each story is connected to the funds and startups it names — every one with a live profile on Raise or Scout — so founders can follow the capital and the momentum behind the headline rather than just the headline itself. Wire analysis is one of the live surfaces Arthur, Fusion42's AI co-founder, reasons over.
The Wire takeaway
You now have documented use cases where quantum machine learning beats classical methods on real banking and clinical problems - and you have a hardware supplier (ORCA) and a path to proof. If you build supply chain optimisation, anomaly detection, or molecular screening tools, you can pilot against photonic quantum hardware for free, establish the performance differential, and lock in an early customer before the market realises quantum works.
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Topics: Quantum Computing · Fintech · Medtech · quantum-computing · machine-learning · enterprise-pilots · uk-innovation · fintech-healthcare