Helium Systems


Helium, Inc is an Internet-of-Things developer platform founded in 2013 by Amir Haleem, Sean Carey and Shawn Fanning. Helium has received a total of $38 million in seed, series A, and series B funding. Prominent investors include: Mark Benioff, SV Angel, FirstMark, Khosla Ventures, and GV.
Helium's 'Atom' Radio module, which forms the core hardware component of its networking capability, contains a dual-band, 802.15.4 modem, an Atmel ATECC508A security key component.
The company is based in San Francisco, California.

Products

The company previously developed a product that would monitor refrigeration systems and report out-of-range temperatures wirelessly. However, they pivoted and in July 2017 announced a new offering to provide a hardware, and software platform for developers to build IoT applications. The new offering was positioned as a way for developers to streamline the ability to prototype, deploy and scale a long-range wireless network that connects thousands of end devices, and gives companies a simple way to deliver data from device to the cloud and application layer.
In February 2020, Helium changed their protocol from LongFi, a proprietary packet on top of LoRa, to LoRaWAN.

Funding rounds

Seed round: $2,800,000, Nov 1, 2013
Series A: $16,000,000, Dec 9, 2014
Series B: $20,000,000 Apr 25, 2016