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Photonic

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.

Photonic is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Quantum Computing, Quantum Networking, Silicon Photonics, and Semiconductors.

Photonic’s developer surface includes engineering blog and 14 more developer resources.

10.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-02 · rubric v0.18.0
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CompanyQuantum ComputingQuantum NetworkingSilicon PhotonicsSemiconductorsDeep TechResearchHardwareCanada

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Security Posture 1

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Photonic Domain Security

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Source (apis.yml)

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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
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-02'
  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'

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