D-WAVE SYSTEMS INC.: federal grants and contributions

Updated 12 October 2026 · Burnaby, British Columbia|Burnaby, Colombie-Britannique · grants and contributions register · Burnaby North–Seymour

D-WAVE SYSTEMS INC.: federal grants and contributions: 6 agreements; $41.2M value; 2 departments; 3 programs.

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6agreements
$41.2Mvalue
2departments
3programs

Largest agreements

811923$40.0Mvalue2020start2041end

Development of a pre-commercial, next-generation annealing-type quantum computer. Includes proto-typing, testing and full-scale implementation of quantum computing systems and services based on a new architecture. Involves harnessing the properties of quantum mechanics to provide new, energy-efficient computation systems enabling novel algorithms and applications to solve difficult problems in optimization, machine learning, and quantum simulation.

CIIP - South Korea: Machine learning for cervical cancer detection from images$460Kvalue2018start2021end

CIIP - South Korea with project partner: Buzzpole. The project will apply D-Wave machine learning algorithms to improve the accuracy of Korean company Buzzpole's Cerviclinic A.I. telemedicine offering.

Agreement$350Kvalue2012start–end
Improved Embedding Algorithms for Posing Ising Problems to Commercial-Scale Quantum Annealing Processors$299Kvalue2026start2028end

The project focuses on graph minor-embedding as it relates to commercialscale annealing quantum computers. Graph minor-embedding is a necessary step when running problems on annealing quantum computers and, in general, is an NP-hard problem. Efficient heuristics designed specifically to map user problems to D-Wave’s Quantum Processing Unit (QPU) topologies (the 6-degree Chimera™ and the 15-degree Pegasus™) are currently leveraged by most users, despite the current availability of a more connected 20-degree topology (Zephyr™) released on D-Wave’s latest-generation quantum computers. This projec

Agreement$100.0Kvalue2013start–end
Agreement$30.0Kvalue2010start–end

Departments

Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada1agreements$40.0Mvalue1programs
National Research Council Canada5agreements$1.2Mvalue2programs
  • Eureka/Eurostar
  • Collaborative Science, Technology and Innovation Program - Collaborative R&D Initiatives

All grants from National Research Council Canada

Years

20261agreements$299Kvalue1programs
  • Collaborative Science, Technology and Innovation Program - Collaborative R&D Initiatives
20201agreements$40.0Mvalue1programs
  • SIF Stream 1 - R&D
20181agreements$460Kvalue1programs
  • Eureka/Eurostar
20131agreements$100.0Kvalue0programs
    20121agreements$350Kvalue0programs
      20101agreements$30.0Kvalue0programs

        Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Source: Government of Canada proactive disclosure of grants and contributions (open.canada.ca, dataset 432527ab-7aac-45b5-81d6-7597107a7013), 1,327,352 rows as published, collapsed to one agreement per agreement number (per reference number where none is given) at its latest amendment, which carries the full agreement value. Years are the agreement start year. Agreements with individuals are counted but not named.