Also known as: RQB
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' thesis that defensive countermeasures must improve as AI capabilities advance.
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