Mathilda Strom is the Founding COO of Bioptimus, the ground-breaking company building the AI foundation model for biology. It will be the reference foundation model used globally to power breakthroughs in biomedicine and beyond.

Mathilda has dedicated the last 20 years to building businesses that tackle the world’s biggest problems. Before joining Bioptimus this year she was was part of founding two other companies in the healthcare and climate space: the carbon credit insurance company, CarbonPool, and the emerging market insurance and healthcare provider BIMA (Milvik) – which has registered over 100 million people for insurance and health services in Africa, Asia and Latin America. She has also served on the boards of Tangelo, Azuri Technologies and the Microinsurance Network and is a mother of two.