The company's neutral-atom approach offers a distinct advantage over competing qubit technologies: atoms are identical by nature, eliminating fabrication variability, and can be arranged in 1D, 2D or 3D arrays and reconfigured during computation. The systems operate without cryogenic cooling, use fast two-qubit gates via Rydberg states, and are designed to integrate into data centre and high-performance computing environments.

planqc develops hardware and software together in a co-design approach that spans from the physical qubit layer through a quantum operating system to industry-specific algorithms. The company delivers systems as on-premise installations, as HPC-integrated accelerators, and as cloud-based Quantum Computing as a Service. Key customers include the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), for which planqc is building a 1,000-qubit multi-core system called MAQCS.

The company raised a €50 million Series A in July 2024 and won the German Entrepreneur Award 2025 in the StartUp category. It operates offices and labs in Garching, Ulm and Innsbruck.