Eric Olson

Eric Olson is the co-founder and CEO of Consensus, an AI search engine that pulls evidence-based answers out of more than 200 million peer-reviewed scientific papers. A former Northwestern University offensive lineman who became a data scientist at DraftKings, Olson built Consensus with his college teammate Christian Salem so that ordinary people would not feel like outsiders to science. The company launched publicly in 2022 and raised an $11.5M Series A in 2024 led by Union Square Ventures, with backing from Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross.