Niels Bohr Institute Spinout Pelagic Systems Targets Quantum Hardware Control

Insider Brief

• Pelagic Systems, a spinout from the Novo Nordisk Foundation Quantum Computing Programme at the Niels Bohr Institute, is launching software for calibrating, monitoring and controlling quantum hardware.
• The company says its platform has been demonstrated on superconducting quantum processors, where it can characterize and recalibrate key processor parameters on millisecond timescales.
• Supported by Innovation Fund Denmark, Pelagic is offering its software to research groups and quantum computing companies working on advanced quantum hardware.

Pelagic Systems, a new spinout from the Novo Nordisk Foundation Quantum Computing Programme (NQCP) at the Niels Bohr Institute, was announced on October 27, 2026, according to a company press release. The company is developing the software layer for operating quantum hardware at the frontier.

Pelagic describes quantum processors as experimental systems that are delicate and constantly changing. Its platform brings tools to measure, understand and control them into a single software package, the release states. The company says that by closely integrating high-level experimental software with real-time hardware control, the platform makes possible a new generation of quantum experiments that can respond, adapt and explore the full potential of quantum hardware.