QNu Labs

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QNu Labs
Company typePrivate
IndustryComputer security, Technology, Cybersecurity
Founded2016
FounderSunil Gupta, Srinivasa Rao Aluri, Mark Mathias, Anil Prabhakar
HeadquartersBengaluru,
India
Area served
Worldwide
Products Armos
Tropos
Qosmos
Hodos
Website https://www.qnulabs.com/

QNu Labs (or QuNu Labs Private Limited) is a cybersecurity company headquartered in Bengaluru, India. It is credited to be the first firm in India to successfully develop commercial cybersecurity products using quantum physics. [1] It has a subsidiary called QNu Labs Inc, which was set up in Massachusetts, US in 2019. [2]

The company was founded in 2016 by Sunil Gupta, Srinivasa Rao Aluri, Mark Mathias, and Anil Prabhakar. [3] It was incubated at Indian Institute of Technology-Madras and later began operations in Bengaluru.

After conducting field trials for its quantum key distribution product, QNu Labs received support from Cisco Launchpad in 2018. [1] Subsequently, it launched two products—a quantum key distributor called Armos and a quantum random number generator called Tropos—for national and international markets in 2020. [4]

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