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Helical
Virtual AI lab that turns bio foundation models into reproducible discovery workflows
About Helical
Helical is a biotechnology company building a virtual AI lab that turns biological foundation models into reproducible, decision-ready in-silico workflows for pharmaceutical R&D. Founded in early 2024 by Rick Schneider, Maxime Allard and Mathieu Klop, the platform combines a Virtual Lab for biologists and translational scientists with a Model Factory for ML engineers on shared data, models and results—bridging computational predictions and biological validation for target identification, biomarker discovery and therapeutic design. Helical works with several top-20 global pharmaceutical companies and aims to cut discovery timelines from months toward days. In April 2026 Helical raised $10 million in seed funding led by redalpine, with Gradient, BoxGroup and Frst plus angels including Aidan Gomez (Cohere), Clement Delangue (Hugging Face) and Mario Götze, to deepen therapeutic deployments and expand the evidence layer. Sources: Tech.eu 14 Apr 2026.
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- Status
- Operational
- Founded
- 2023
- Headquarters
- Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Employees
- 26
- Open positions
- 6
- Dealroom signal
- 87.8/100
- Industry
- Health
- Sub-industry
- BioTechnology, Health Platform
- Sector
- Biotech & Life Sciences, Open Source, Biotechnology, Medical Research, AI Drug Discovery, Techbio Drug Discovery, Startup Luxembourg, DT and LS
- Technology
- Artificial Intelligence, Deep Tech
- Business model
- SaaS
- Client focus
- b2b
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Funding history
Company financing events and reported valuations.
| Deal type | Date | Amount | Valuation | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SEEDOther financing | Apr 2026 | $10M | $40M | Gradient Ventures · Frst Capital · BoxGroup · Aidan Gomez | ↗ |
| SEEDOther financing | Jun 2024 | $2.4M | $9.7M | Frst Capital · BoxGroup | ↗ |
Growth signals
Latest recorded traffic for Helical is 4.9K monthly website visits, up 25.6% over the last three months. Helical's team grew 30% over the past year.
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Investors
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Seed7 investors entered at this stage
Frst Capital
BoxGroup
Redalpine
Gradient Ventures
Aidan Gomez
Clément Delangue
Mario Götze
Other known investors2 additional known investors
Luxembourg-City Incubator
Luxinnovation
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