Helical

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Location London, United Kingdom
Founded 2024
Latest Stage Seed
Total Raised $10M
Website https://helical.ai
Sector
AI biotech drug-discovery

Investors

redalpine seed (2026)
gradient seed (2026)
BoxGroup seed (2026)
frst seed (2026)

Founders

Rick Schneider Co-Founder
Maxime Allard Co-Founder
Mathieu Klop Co-Founder

About

Helical is a London-based AI startup building a virtual AI lab for pharmaceutical companies, designed to turn bio foundation models into reproducible discovery systems 1. Founded in early 2024 by Rick Schneider, Maxime Allard, and Mathieu Klop, the platform enables scientists to test hypotheses in-silico at the speed of inference 1. Helical is already deployed with multiple top-20 pharma companies, including a public collaboration with Pfizer on predictive blood-based safety biomarkers 1.

Funding History

Date Round Amount Lead Co-investors
2026-04-14 Seed $10M redalpine Gradient, BoxGroup, Frst; angels: Aidan Gomez (CEO Cohere), Clement Delangue (CEO HuggingFace), Mario Goetze 1

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Sources

  1. GlobeNewsWire via Manila Times, “Helical Raises $10M for Virtual AI Lab That Operates at Pharma Scale to Make In-Silico Discovery Reproducible,” April 14, 2026. https://www.manilatimes.net/2026/04/14/tmt-newswire/globenewswire/helical-raises-10m-for-virtual-ai-lab-that-operates-at-pharma-scale-to-make-in-silico-discovery-reproducible/2320078↩↩↩↩