“SecureBio’s in-house team of researchers and technologists work with experts in academia, industry and government to develop new technologies and policy proposals to delay, detect, and defend against any catastrophic pandemic, whether natural or engineered.”In its own words: securebio.org
Biosecurity nonprofit developing pathogen-agnostic early warning of pandemics through metagenomic sequencing, and tools to evaluate whether AI systems could worsen biological risks.
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Received $1.2M from 4 funders
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Led by Ben Mueller (Executive Director)Checked 25 Oct 2026
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6 grants totalling $1.2M, newest first.
2025 4 grants · $812k
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Dec 2025 | AI Safety Fund (Frontier Model Forum) | ~$455k | AISF Round 2: Evaluations of agent AIs' execution of tasks that could enable large-scale harm. Amount undisclosed; share of >$5M across 11 grants. Amount here is an estimate: an equal share of the round's >$5M. source |
| Sep 2025 | Survival and Flourishing Fund | ~$302k | SFF-2025: General support [AI-safety share est. 40% of $754,000 (range 25–55%): SecureBio lists two current projects, Detection and 'AI and Biotechnology Risks' ('developing evaluation tools to assess the potential of AI systems to exacerbate these risks'), and about 23 of the ro source |
| Mar 2025 | Coefficient Giving | $37k | AI Benchmark Improvements source |
| Mar 2025 | Global Catastrophic Risks Opportunities | $19k | SecureBio — AI Biological Capabilities Dashboard — Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $18,550 to SecureBio to support the creation of an online dashboard tracking frontier AI models’ performance on biology-related evaluations. SecureBio hopes... [Global Catastrophic Risks; source |
2024 2 grants · $352k
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 2024 | AI Safety Fund (Frontier Model Forum) | ~$250k | AISF Round 1 (PI Individual #8549): Virus Methods QA (VMQA) benchmark. Amount undisclosed (grants were $150k–$400k); share of >$3M across 12 grants. Amount here is an estimate: an equal share of the round's >$3M. source |
| 30 Oct 2024 | Survival and Flourishing Fund | ~$102k | SFF-2024: General support [AI-safety share est. 40% of $254,000 (range 25–55%): SecureBio lists two current projects, Detection and 'AI and Biotechnology Risks' (evaluations of whether AI systems could add to biological risks), and about 23 of the roughly 62 people on its team pa source |