Red Queen Bio
StartupAlso known as: RQB
Founded Nov 2025 (4 months) by Nikolai Eroshenko, and Hannu Rajaniemi
An AI biosecurity Public Benefit Corporation founded in 2025 by Nikolai Eroshenko and Hannu Rajaniemi (co-founders of HelixNano), spun out to build defensive biological countermeasures at the pace of frontier AI development. Raised a $15M seed round led by OpenAI based on a 'defensive co-scaling' th
Total Funding Raised
$15 million
as of Nov 2025
Key People
2
2 total tracked
Other Data
Major research initiatives and focus areas.
2 entries| Name | Description | Team Size | Started |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
Key People
2Nikolai EroshenkoFounder
Co-founder & CEO
Nov 2025 – present
Previously co-founder of HelixNano; led collaboration with OpenAI on biological risk evaluations
Hannu RajaniemiFounder
Co-founder
Nov 2025 – present
Sci-fi author and scientist; co-founded HelixNano in 2013
Facts5
Financial
Total Funding Raised$15 million
Organization
Founded DateNov 2025
HeadquartersBoston, MA
Legal StructurePublic Benefit Corporation (PBC)
People
Founded Bynikolai-eroshenko, hannu-rajaniemi