AboutKETS

Who We Are

KETS is the UK’s most commercially advanced quantum-safe encryption and networking company.

While some believe quantum-level security is a challenge that still needs to be solved, it isn’t. KETS’s patented and unique chip-based solutions offer ultra-low size weight and power quantum-safe products to protect our customers from emerging security threats.

We are backed by the UK and Europe’s leading quantum and deep-tech specialist investors, as well as having won multiple funding awards from the UK government.

Today our quantum networking products are being used across telecommunications networks, in the field and demonstrating new pathways to securing our digital infrastructure.

The KETS Team
KETS Engineering

Meet the Team

Charles Shaw
Senior FPGA Engineer
Chris Erven
CEO
Francesco Raffaelli
Head of Technology
Gaetano de Martino
Head of Engineering & Production
James Garvey
Senior Electronics Engineer
Lisa Matthews
Managing Director & COO
Patrick Buckle
Senior Mechanical Engineer
Pedro Nunes
Head of Finance & Planning
Richard Collins
Senior Software Engineer
Rob Starkwood
Head of Performance
Rosanna Fish
Senior Software Engineer
Stefano Tronci
Scientific Software Engineer
Susie Piggott
People Operations Manager
Taylor Cameron
Electronic Engineer

OurJourney

2015

World’s first chip-to-chip QKD demonstrated and first silicon devices created

2016

KETS incorporated

2017

Joined BT/Facebook’s Telecom Infra Project Ecosystem Acceleration Centre (TEAC)

2018

Secured seed funding, delivered project with Airbus to demonstrate drone-based QKD

2019

1Gbs+ chip based QRNG demonstrated, joined Thales at the cyber@Station F programme, Paris

2020

Secured a project with Airbus to demonstrate satellite QKD, and a £2.7m project with NPL and CryptaLabs to develop assurance methods for QRNGs

2021

Raised equity funding from leading European quantum and deep-tech specialist VCs

2022

Secured £8.8m project with BT, Riverlane, and NCC to develop the quantum datacentre of the future

2023

Awarded development contract from UK SBRI for next generation security hardened silicon QKD system, secured £1.9m project with BT, NodeQ, and HSBC to develop assurance methods for QKD

2024

Named WIRED / HSBC Trailblazer, secured UK gov funding to bring embeddable QKD subsystems to market

2025

Launched world’s first fully silicon QKD at Quantum.Tech Washington, features in the Sunday Times

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