Helical

London-based biotech software company building a virtual AI lab for pharma R&D that turns bio foundation models into reproducible in-silico discovery workflows. Founded in 2024 by Rick Schneider, Maxime Allard and Mathieu Klop. Deployed inside multiple top-20 pharma companies including Pfizer.

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Scientist reviewing 3D molecular visualisations of DNA and protein structures on a curved display in a dark biotech laboratory

Artificial Intelligence, Science & Tech, Startups

London startup Helical raises $10M to become the Hugging Face of AI drug discovery

Helical's virtual AI lab sells the governance layer pharma needs to actually use hundreds of open bio foundation models, not another proprietary one.

14 April 2026·5 min read