Helium’s mission is to leverage the power of wireless technology and blockchain to build the People¡¯s Network – the world¡¯s first peer-to-peer wireless network that empowers anyone to become a network operator and unleash new classes of devices and applications that are impossible today. will come to fruition as a result of individuals, neighborhoods, and communities building this new network. Helium was founded in 2013 by Napster Founder Shawn Fanning, Amir Haleem, and Sean Carey, with a mission to make it easier to build connected devices. Helium has raised equity funding from some of the most prominent Venture Capital (VC) firms in the world including GV (formerly Google Ventures), Khosla Ventures, FirstMark Capital, Marc Benioff, MunichRe and others.