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Total Funding Raised
$15 million
as of Nov 2025
Founded Date
Nov 2025
Key People
2NE
Nikolai EroshenkoFounder
Co-founder & CEO
Nov 2025 – present
Previously co-founder of HelixNano; led collaboration with OpenAI on biological risk evaluations
HR
Hannu RajaniemiFounder
Co-founder
Nov 2025 – present
Sci-fi author and scientist; co-founded HelixNano in 2013
All Facts
Financial
Total Funding Raised$15 millionNov 2025▶
| As Of | Value | Source | Fact ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 2025 | $15 million | techcrunch.com | f_iNzsKTtpRQ |
Organization
Founded DateNov 2025—▶
| As Of | Value | Source | Fact ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | Nov 2025 | redqueenbio.com | f_zxbmbdSgwA |
HeadquartersBoston, MA—▶
| As Of | Value | Source | Fact ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | Boston, MA | redqueenbio.com | f_uytPwpHPUA |
Legal StructurePublic Benefit Corporation (PBC)—▶
| As Of | Value | Source | Fact ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) | redqueenbio.com | f_8HoTluYT0g |
People
Founded Bynikolai-eroshenko, hannu-rajaniemi—▶
| As Of | Value | Source | Fact ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | nikolai-eroshenko, hannu-rajaniemi | techcrunch.com | f_YndqOVXiTA |
Research Areas
2| Name | Description | Team Size | Started | Key Publication | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Defensive Co-scaling | Coupling defensive biological infrastructure to the same technological and financial forces driving AI capability advancement; pre-building countermeasures against AI-identified threats | — | Nov 2025 | — | Core thesis: scale biological defenses proportionally with advancing AI capabilities; named after the Red Queen evolutionary hypothesis | — |
| AI-accelerated Countermeasure Design | Using frontier AI models, lab automation, and reinforcement learning to design medical countermeasures against biothreats identified through threat mapping | — | Nov 2025 | — | — | redqueenbio.com |
▶Internal Metadata
| ID | W9J9yMK82X |
| Stable ID | W9J9yMK82X |
| Numeric ID | E556 |
| Type | organization |
| YAML Source | packages/kb/data/things/W9J9yMK82X.yaml |
| Facts | 5 structured |
| Records | 4 in 2 collections |