Qarnot is a fast-growing French company, founded with a revolutionary vision for tackling climate change. The Qarnot team is highly skilled in developing both the distributed cloud computing infrastructure and accompanying hardware products. Qarnot is the first company to offer climate-conscious, high-performance computing (HPC).
Qarnot uses energy to run high-performance computing while leveraging the heat generated by microchips to heat residential units and sanitized water in commercial buildings. It reduces the CO2 footprint of computer servers by 78% compared to traditional data centre solutions. As the need for HPC continues to grow in many industries (banking, pharmaceutical, 3D animation, etc) the market for Qarnot will grow substantially in Europe.
At A/O PropTech, we are looking to invest in companies that intersect ClimateTech and PropTech. In other words, companies enabling the decarbonisation of the real estate industry, of which Qarnot Computing is an excellent example.
Location: France, Ile-de-France, Montrouge
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $6.62M
Founded date: 2010
Investors 3
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | A/O PropTe... | aoproptech... |
| - | Ventech | ventechvc.... |
| 22.02.2023 | Demeter | demeter-im... |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 31.03.2020 | Series B | $6.62M | - |
Mentions in press and media 15
| Date | Title | Description | Source |
| 11.01.2023 | Reclaiming data centre waste heat nets Qarnot €35 million | Calling the Parisian suburb of Montrouge home, French startup Qarnot has raised €35 million in new c... | tech.eu/20... |
| 09.01.2023 | Qarnot creates green data centers by putting servers in cent... | Running a data center means that you have to find innovative ways to manage heat from the servers. A... | techcrunch... |
| 27.01.2022 | Casino veut vendre de la puissance de calcul grâce à Qarnot ... | Le groupe Casino veut monétiser ses entrepôts et les réserves de ses magasins en y installant des Da... | telecompar... |
| 27.01.2022 | Qarnot Computing lève 6 millions d’euros (via telecom-paris.... | Son fondateur Paul Benoit est diplômé de Polytechnique et de Télécom Paris. Dès 2002, alors à la R... | telecompar... |
| 03.04.2020 | Coronavirus couldn’t stop French tech startups from raising ... | The coronavirus pandemic outbreak has stumbled the whole world causing an economic breakdown and aff... | siliconcan... |
| 01.04.2020 | Qarnot Raises €6M in Funding | Qarnot, a Montrouge, France-based developer of computer servers that also heat buildings, raised €6m... | finsmes.co... |
| 31.03.2020 | French startup Qarnot bags €6 million Series B for sustainab... | Qarnot Computing, a French company developing sustainable high performance computing (HPC), has rais... | tech.eu/br... |
| 31.03.2020 | Qarnot Computing raises $6.5 million to heat buildings with ... | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI an... | venturebea... |
| 31.03.2020 | Qarnot Computing raises $6.5 million to heat buildings with ... | Qarnot Computing has raised $6.5 million for its system that captures the heat from computers and re... | venturebea... |
| 31.03.2020 | Qarnot raises €6 million to heat buildings for free with com... | French startup Qarnot, one of the first companies to heat buildings for free with computers, has rai... | eu-startup... |
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