Helius - About the company
Helius is a series B company based in Remote (United States), founded in 2022 by Mert Mumtaz, Nicolas Pennie and Liam Vovk. It operates as a Provider of Solana RPCs, transaction landing services, and data streaming. Helius has raised $34.4M in funding from investors like Founders Fund, Foundation Capital and Reciprocal Ventures. The company has 469 active competitors, including 121 funded and 11 that have exited. Its top competitors include companies like Consensys, Alchemy and Digital Asset.
Company Details
Provider of Solana RPCs, transaction landing services, and data streaming. The company offers a unified platform for running applications and trading strategies. It provides low latency reads with optimized transaction delivery pipelines. The platform helps to detect on-chain signals faster and reduce engineering time. Services include streaming Solana blocks, transactions, and account data. It also offers transaction sending services and access to globally distributed RPCs.
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- www.helius.dev/
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Key Metrics
Founded Year
2022
Location
Remote, United States
Stage
Series B
Total Funding
$34.4M in 3 rounds
Latest Funding Round
Investors
Ranked
5th among 469 active competitors
Employee Count
60 as on Jun 30, 2026
Investment & Acquisitions
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Legal entities associated with Helius
Helius is associated with 2 legal entities given below:
Legal Entity Name | Date of Incorporation | Revenue | Latest Employee Count | Documents |
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Helius Blockchain Technologies, Inc. CIN: 88-2846810 , United States, Active | Jan 01, 1970 | - | - | - |
HELIUS, LLC CIN: 870547594 , United States, Active | Dec 31, 2021 | - | - | - |
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Helius's funding and investors
Helius has raised a total funding of $34.4M over 3 rounds. Its first funding round was on Oct 19, 2022. Its latest funding round was a Series B round on Sep 18, 2024 for $*****. 6 investors participated in its latest round. Helius has 8 institutional investors and 4 angel investors.
Here is the list of recent funding rounds of Helius:
Date of Funding | Funding Amount | Round Name | Post-Money Valuation | Revenue Multiple | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
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Sep 18, 2024 | 9807804 | Series B | 4408755 | 3647114 | 7029923 | 9078044 |
Jan 26, 2024 | 6750249 | Series A | 3423134 | 7812916 | 5543136 | |
Oct 19, 2022 | 4508754 | Seed | 1116457 | 5610728 | 8736409 |
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Helius' founders and board of directors
Founder? Claim ProfileThe founders of Helius are Mert Mumtaz, Nicolas Pennie and Liam Vovk. Mert Mumtaz is the CEO of Helius.
Here are the details of Helius' key team members:
- Mert Mumtaz: Co-Founder & CEO of Helius and founder of 1 other company. They are also an angel investor in 6 startups.Contact Info: 1 email address
- Nicolas Pennie: Co-Founder & COO of Helius.
- Liam Vovk: Co-Founder of Helius.
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Helius' employee count trend
Helius has 60 employees as of Jun 26. Here is Helius's employee count trend over the years:
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Helius's Competitors and alternates
Top competitors of Helius include Consensys, Alchemy and Digital Asset. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of Helius, ranked by Tracxn score:
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Rank | Company Details | Short Description | Total Funding | Investors | Tracxn Score |
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1st |  Consensys 2014, Fort Worth (United States), Series D | Developer of blockchain and web3 software platform | $725M | 81/100 | |
2nd |  Alchemy 2013, San Francisco (United States), Series C | Provider of complete blockchain developer platform | $564M | 78/100 | |
3rd | Digital Asset 2014, New York City (United States), Series E | Provider of Canton Network, the public blockchain with institutional-grade privacy for tokenized real-world assets | $807M | 74/100 | |
4th | Galxe 2021, San Mateo (United States), Series A | Web3 credential data network | $10M | 71/100 | |
5th |  Helius 2022, Remote (United States), Series B | Provider of Solana RPCs, transaction landing services, and data streaming | $34.4M | 66/100 | |
6th | Sui Foundation 2022, Cayman Islands, Funding Raised | Developer of Layer 1 blockchain and smart contract development platform | - | 67/100 | |
7th |  Spydra 2021, Austin (United States), Seed | API driven Decentralization-as-a-Service platform | $1.86M | 61/100 | |
8th |  Eclipse 2022, San Francisco (United States), Series A | Online platform for building decentralized applications | $65M | 60/100 | |
9th |  Blocknative 2018, San Francisco (United States), Series A | Developer of infrastructure and tools for blockchain transaction management and visibility | $34M | 60/100 | |
10th |  Lisk 2016, Zug (Switzerland), Funding Raised | Blockchain-based application development platform for entrepreneurs and developers | - | 60/100 |
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Helius's Investments and acquisitions
Helius has acquired Light Protocol. Helius has not made any investments as of now.Reports related to Helius
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News related to Helius
Media has covered Helius for a total of 7 events in the last 1 year, 2 of them have been about company updates.
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Solana Company Strengthens Treasury Strategy with Helius, Anchorage Digital and TwinstakeGlobeNewswire•Oct 23, 2025•Helius, Solana, Twinstake
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Pantera-Backed Solana Treasury Firm Helius Raises $500M, Stock Soars Over 200%CoinDesk•Sep 15, 2025•Summer Capital Management Company, Helius Medical, Pantera Capital, Solana and 6 others
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Light Protocol And Helius Labs Unveil ‘Zk Compression’ To Enhance Solana’s EfficiencyCoinspeaker•Jun 24, 2024•Light Protocol, Helius
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Squads Labs Raises $10M Series A, Unveils Smart Wallet for Public Testing on iOSCryptonews•Jun 10, 2024•Squads Labs, Electric Capital, RockawayX, Coinbase and 6 others
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Helius raises $9.5 million in series A round to develop apps on SolanaDrimble•Feb 22, 2024•Helius Tech, Foundation Capital, Reciprocal Ventures, and 8 others
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Chapter One Invested in HeliusSmartliquidity•Oct 22, 2022•Chapter One, Helius, Reciprocal Ventures, Solana
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