Aliro Technologies, a spin-out of Harvard's Quantum Information Sciences Lab, makes software that facilitates accessibility to present-day quantum computers. It offers a hardware-independent platform for developers to write quantum software and helps optimize it according to the specific details of the device, or, conversely, selects the device that maximizes a program's performance. The company was founded in Spring 2019 out of Harvard SEAS' NarangLab led by Prof. Prineha Narang, a luminary in quantum science and technology, with start-up veteran Jim Ricotta joining as CEO. To date Aliro has raised a $2.7 million seed round and is based in Boston, Massachusetts..