Our guest today is Sunil Gupta, co-founder and CEO of QNu Labs, a five-year-old Chennai startup that has developed commercially ready quantum-safe security products and solutions. In this conversation, Gupta talks about the founders’ vision of building a globally recognised deep tech company from India in the quantum-safe cybersecurity space.

(00:40) Introduction to The Daily Tech Conversation

(00:60) Our guest today — Sunil Gupta, co-founder and CEO, QNu Labs, a quantum security company

(01:38) How QNu Labs was started — a bit of context

(04:00) Early challenges of setting up a deep tech company in India

(05:00) Going from proof-of-science to proof-of-tech

(08:05) QNu’s products — a quantum random number generator, a quantum key distributor and a post quantum cryptography software solution

(09:30) Why interest and investments in quantum computing are picking up — three reasons to understand

(16:10) Setting up a quantum lab for the armed forces, and other customers

(17:05) QNu’s tech — both hardware and software; moving from complex, but breakable, math to universal and unbreakable laws of physics

(19:10) Qubits and how they work

(21:15) Hackers may get encrypted data, but never the decryption key

(23:10) Satellite based quantum key distribution

(24:55) Customers in India and overseas as well

(26:00) Quantum secure VPN tunnel

(27:37) Challenges ahead for the next phase of growth of QNu — to demonstrate proof-of-scale

(29:30) Competing against ecommerce unicorns for talent and funding — finding people with the vision of nation building

About QNu Labs

https://www.qnulabs.com/people/

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