Our mission

Why we’re here.

Biology can measure far more than it can interpret.

Most of what biology has measured has never been read. The relationships inside those measurements — across experiments, laboratories and decades — are in no paper, because nobody went looking for them. We build the models that can see them, and the systems that put those models in the hands of the scientists asking the questions.

The ambition is discovery as a practice: something a laboratory does continuously, rather than something it stumbles into.

Leadership team

  • Ioan Bolohan

    Ioan Bolohan

    Co-Founder & CEO

    Harvard MBA. Previously at McKinsey and UNC.

  • Pol Castellano-Escuder, Ph.D.

    Pol Castellano-Escuder, Ph.D.

    Co-Founder & CTO

    Computational biology and machine learning research. Previously at Duke University.

  • Matthew Hirschey, Ph.D.

    Matthew Hirschey, Ph.D.

    Co-Founder & Advisor

    Professor at Duke University. Director of the Center for Computational Thinking.

Our vision

Discovery is a skill, not a flash

Heureka builds the systems and tools to make discoveries more efficient and more impactful. The handbook lays out what’s behind the work: discovery as a practiced craft, in nine steps.