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Eric Olson

CEO & Co-founder, Consensus

Eric Olson is CEO and co-founder of Consensus, the AI search engine that reads across a 200M+ paper scientific corpus and synthesizes what the literature actually says — retrieval-first, so every cited paper is real and linked. He started the company in 2022 with his Northwestern football teammate Christian Salem; it became one of the early breakout hits in the GPT store and raised a $30M Series B in May 2026 led by GreatPoint Ventures, with DJ Patil joining the board. His thesis: automate the menial parts of literature search and keep humans on the ideation.