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| 30.09.2025 | Why Europe's angel investors are rallying behind EU-INC's 28th Regime | When big funding rounds grab headlines, it's easy to forget the quiet, powerful force at the base of Europe's startup ecosystem: angel investors.
This large and diverse group often backs founders with anything from a few thousand euros upwa... |
| 27.05.2025 | Impossible Cloud Network: Funding Raised From NGP At $470 Million Valuation | Impossible Cloud Network (ICN), a leading decentralized cloud network, announced a new investment from NGP Capital, valuing ICN at $470 million. Headed by tech entrepreneur Kai Wawrzinek, founder of NASDAQ Unicorn Goodgame Studios, ICN is m... |
| 21.11.2024 | Why the Media Loves the Worst of Crypto
Bitcoin Breaches New Record Above $98K as MicroStrategy Soars and Trump Considers 'Crypto Czar' | Is your social media feed once again full of crypto bros taking victory laps attesting to the inevitability of bitcoin?
If you’re wondering, "How did we get back here?" or why TV news told you that Bitcoin died, you're not alone. ... |
| 13.11.2024 | Bright Futures Ahead: Helium, Aave, and BlockDAG Redefine Blockchain Technology | Share
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In the competitive world of blockchain, Helium and Aave have gained prominence with their novel solutions for IoT connectivity and decentralized finance (DeFi), respectively. Helium enhances wireless communicat... |
| 01.11.2024 | Mawari's Node Sale: A Leap into the Future of Spatial Computing | In the heart of Tokyo, a revolution is brewing. Mawari Network, a pioneer in spatial computing, is set to launch a limited node license sale. This move is not just a business strategy; it’s a bold step into the future of immersive content. ... |
| 31.10.2024 | Mawari Announces Node Sale to Bring Immersive Content to the World | Tokyo, Japan, October 31st, 2024, Chainwire
Mawari Network, a spatial computing DePIN (Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network), has announced a limited node license sale.
lready a pioneer in immersive content, the node sale will make... |
| 18.10.2024 | The Promise of Trustless Environmental Monitoring
What's Driving Bitcoin's Recent Price Rise? | Despite myriad benefits to proactively address the consequences of climate change, society remains focused on expensive remediation as opposed to adaptation and prevention. This is in part due to the absence of accurate and transparent data... |
| 11.10.2024 | DePIN Promises Small Business Innovation in Emerging Markets | DePIN deserves the hype. Projects in the space are creating technologies that stand to change, at least to a degree, the reigning cloud computing model, while providing users with sustainable economic incentives to uphold the networks. This... |
| 16.09.2024 | Multicoin Led $10M Raise for Crypto-Incentivized Internet Infrastructure Network Pipe
What Does Web3 Actually Mean? | Crypto venture giant Multicoin led a $10 million fundraise for the builders of Pipe, a proposed "content delivery network" (CDN) that uses tokens to incentivize people hosting internet infrastructure.
The startup building Pipe Net... |
| 05.09.2024 | We Need DePIN to Get to Net-Zero Emissions | Energy equals life. It warms, cools, and lights our homes. It moves the trucks that bring our groceries. It fuels the chips that drive the AI revolution. Energy can be considered a human right, and unless we transition to a zero-emissions e... |
| 23.08.2024 | Aave Token Has Beaten the Market With a 45% Price Surge. Here's Why | Proposals aimed at overhauling AAVE's tokenomics and protocol's risk management have galvanized investor interest in the cryptocurrency, observers said.
The so-called Umbrella proposal could ease sell-side pressures for AAVE in the market, ... |
| 22.07.2024 | Taking off: Rewarding Flight Trackers in the Age of Web3 | When I was in college, social networks were all the rage. Up until that point, the internet was read-only; you visited a web page and read someone else’s opinion on a topic. We wanted more: we wanted to post our own photos, express our own ... |
| 17.07.2024 | Without High Switching Costs, Telecom Looks Vulnerable to DeWi | As big telcos grapple with a debt burden supercharged by COVID, the prospect of at-scale 5G this decade is becoming more of a meme than an inevitability. While it’s likely a shock to customers who already see a 5G icon on their phones and a... |
| 27.06.2024 | Every DePIN Has a Story | In 1987, I sat outside the Medco Center in Springfield, Kentucky, with my grandfather, Bob Burns, a blind ex-industrial laundry worker from Boston. At 80, Bob spent many of his final days at Medco Center, seated in a folding chair and follo... |
| 08.05.2024 | The Solana Foundation Unveils First Wave of Speakers for Breakpoint 2024: Visa, Bybit, Circle, Helium, Fireblocks and More | Solana Breakpoint's 2024 theme, "Forward Motion", represents the unique role the Solana ecosystem plays in industry transformation and disruption
SINGAPORE, May 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Solana Foundation, a non-profit foundatio... |
| 17.04.2024 | The Protocol: Bitcoin Halving Spectacular, With Runes, 'Epic Sat,' Stacks Nakamoto | It's hard not to draw parallels between the general mood across parts of the planet last week, when people were jockeying to glimpse the solar eclipse, and the excitement building this week in the Bitcoin community, as the blockchain's quad... |
| 16.04.2024 | 'DePIN' Is Venture Capitalists' Latest Crypto Obsession. Can It Match the Hype? | Venture capitalists have pumped billions into the DePIN sector already, with some dedicating entire funds to DePIN protocols.
Although DePIN projects currently have a combined market capitalization of tens of billions of dollars, the indust... |
| 16.04.2024 | The 2024 DePIN Report forecasts a $3.5 trillion market size by 2028 | DePIN is forming a new sharing economy model in digital economy era
HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach Newswire – 16 April 2024 – In April 2024, during the Web3 Festival in Hong Kong, UWEB and JDI Global officially released the highly anticipat... |
| 26.03.2024 | Web3 investment firm Borderless Capital acquires CTF Capital to bring AI and quant expertise | Borderless Capital, an investment firm that specializes in web3, announced Tuesday that it is acquiring CTF Capital, a quantitative trading and asset management firm headquartered in Miami, with technology and operation teams in Latin Ameri... |
| 26.06.2023 | The Web3 data economy proves its value with monetised crowd sourced map data | We live in a digital machine economy, producing a treasure trove of data over our lifetime. When combined, the data creates a valuable commodity.
Take crowd-sourced mobility platform, Waze. Using GPS and its app, over 100 million people sha... |
| 20.04.2023 | Helium Network (HNT) Move to Solana Completed, Here's What's Expected Moving Forward | Web3.0 protocol Helium Network (HNT) has announced its successful migration to the Solana (SOL) blockchain. The announcement was shared via the protocol's official Twitter account and highlights the strong desire to switch to a relatively m... |
| 19.04.2023 | Helium migrates to Solana blockchain | Helium has completed the transition to Solana blockchain, which promises faster transaction speeds, scalability and better reliability.
The migration from Helium’s own blockchain to Solana started yesterday and was done over a 24-hour perio... |
| 27.01.2023 | Top 5 Solutions Changing IoT in 2023 | Organizations, institutions, and households are steadily integrating the Internet of Things (IoT) into their daily activities. According to The Insight Partners, the global IoT market is projected to become a $2.27 trillion industry by 2028... |
| 12.10.2022 | The Leaders On The Inside Track Of Web3 | The Leaders on the Inside Track of Web3.getty |
| 21.09.2022 | Using Blockchain To Pay For Reconstruction Efforts In Ukraine | Cemetery of Ukrainian civil cars destroyed by the Russian army in the city of Irpin - is now covered ... [+] with flowers which can be purchased as NFTs that will finance the work of local charities. Sunflowers are being painted by Helen Ya... |
| 09.05.2022 | Rick Heitzmann Named to Midas List for 3rd Consecutive Year
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FirstMark is excited to congratulate our Cofounder and Managing Partner, Rick Heitzmann, for being named to... | FirstMark is excited to congratulate our Cofounder and Managing Partner, Rick Heitzmann, for being named to the Forbes Midas List—a list representing the pinnacle of technology investors—for the 3rd consecutive year. This year, Rick is #26 ... |
| 21.04.2022 | A Use Case You Can Eat: California Crabs Tracked by Helium Network | In a typical year, Jameson Buffmire, a San Francisco-based tech executive, loses around 10 crab pots in the course of his hobby, catching the crustaceans off the California coast. Each pot costs upwards of $300. He has been trying to find a... |
| 10.04.2022 | Helium Raises $200M, Changes to Nova Labs, Hits $1.2B Valuation
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“Helium Inc., the creator of a blockchain that powers a decentralized wireless network, raised $200 millio... | “Helium Inc., the creator of a blockchain that powers a decentralized wireless network, raised $200 million in a funding round led by Tiger Global Management and Andreessen Horowitz. The startup, valued at $1.2 billion with the latest fundi... |
| 30.03.2022 | Helium Becomes Nova Labs After Raising $200M in Fresh Capital | Helium Inc., the company behind the fast-growing Helium blockchain, has rebranded as Nova Labs.
Nova Labs also confirmed earlier reports of a $200 million Series D funding round led by Tiger Global, with participation from Andreessen Horowi... |
| 23.03.2022 | Why investors are bullish on ‘utility’ crypto Helium: ‘Literally the whole world is its addressable market’ | Never miss a story: Follow your favorite topics and authors to get a personalized email with the journalism that matters most to you.
A peer-to-peer wireless network that doles out crypto tokens as people use it? Investors are intrigued.
He... |
| 09.03.2022 | Helium Miners From Lisbon to Miami Say It's Location, Location, Location
A network for everyone? | Chris Grundemann, a former network engineer and technology consultant, has a Helium hotspot on the roof of his home in El Paso, Texas. It took a day to set it up, but he had waited over nine months for the unit to arrive and was keen to get... |
| 04.03.2022 | Could Crypto Kill College? | My youngest son Zev, now 11, has always been fascinated by money. When he was five, he asked me to explain taxes, interest, and insurance. At age eight, during a visit to a book store, he headed to the personal finance section and picked up... |
| 18.02.2022 | Report: Blockchain-powered networking startup Helium raises $200M in funding
Show your support for our mission by joining our Cube Club and Cube Event Community of experts. Join the community that in... | Helium Systems Inc., a cryptocurrency startup focused on the wireless networking segment, has raised $200 million in funding at a valuation of $1.2 billion, Axios reported today.
The funding round reportedly included the participation of Ti... |
| 17.02.2022 | Helium Network Passing Half-Million Hotspots Could Fire Up HNT Price | The Helium Network, a crypto-powered distributed network of long-range wireless hotspots, has amassed over half a million miners across the world in just two years and is expected to cross the 1 million mark in the next six months.
Now, som... |
| 11.02.2022 | What are CityCoins? Philly’s CIO is looking into crypto to fund civic projects | PhillyCoin?
The City of Miami recently began dabbling in CityCoin, a nonprofit and open-source protocol for trading cryptocurrency that’s netted the city almost $25 million. City of Philadelphia Chief Information Officer Mark Wheeler thinks... |
| 09.02.2022 | DataGovs brings IoT data to life through proprietary analytics tools | Facebook
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| 26.10.2021 | Dish partners with Helium on hotspot model featuring CBRS, blockchain | Dish Network will be the first major carrier to use the Helium Network’s blockchain-based incentive model – with customers deploying their own 5G hotspots using Citizens Band Radio Service (CBRS) spectrum.
Dish points out that it’s no stran... |
| 01.10.2021 | FreedomFi sees demand for CBRS offload gear outpacing private wireless | FreedomFi announced it has started shipping its 5G gateways, designed to allow consumers to mine cryptocurrency as compensation for allowing wireless service providers to offload mobile traffic.
RELATED: Imagine deploying CBRS gear on homes... |
| 10.08.2021 | Helium Raises $111M in Funding | Helium Inc., a San Francisco, CA-based decentralized wireless network, raised $111m in funding.
The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz with additional participation from Ribbit Capital, 10T Holdings, Alameda Research, and Multicoin Capita... |
| 10.06.2021 | Decentralised mesh networks as an answer to Bitcoin’s inefficiency | Bitcoin’s “Proof of Work” (PoW) is under the microscope, and for once it’s not about anonymity, security or whether the original cryptocurrency is set to disrupt traditional finance. It’s about an environmental footprint. |
| 27.04.2021 | Helium to Launch 5G Network With Blockchain-Powered Mesh of DIY Telco Hubs | Helium, a technology that uses blockchains and tokens to incentivize consumers and small businesses to run commercial telecommunications hubs, is launching a 5G version of its network.
Announced Tuesday, Helium is partnering with FreedomFi,... |
| 27.04.2021 | Imagine deploying CBRS gear on homes to offload mobile traffic | Two leaders of wireless technology are thinking far more futuristically than almost anyone in the traditional mobile ecosystem.
Amir Haleem is CEO and co-founder of Helium, a company that has created a global IoT network whose infrastructur... |
| 29.09.2020 | Tabs | Our portfolio company Helium started shipping a new product called Tabs last week. Tabs competes with Tile and a bunch of other Bluetooth trackers and smart dog collars. But Tabs uses the Helium network (aka The People’s Network) and that m... |
| 22.09.2020 | IoT Startup Helium Floats New Hardware Device for Mining Its HNT Crypto Tokens | Helium’s plan to create a decentralized wireless network may be about to gain altitude.
The company, which aims to create a token-powered wireless network for Internet of Things (IoT) devices, announced Tuesday it’s no longer the sole manuf... |
| 18.06.2020 | Helium expands hotspot network to Europe and releases personal IoT tracker | Image: Helium Must-read IoT coverage
Nearly half of businesses do not protect their full IoT suite
Get ready for security in the age of the Extended Internet of Things, says Claroty
How to hire an IoT Architect (TechRepublic Premium)
Become... |
| 07.05.2020 | Daily funding roundup - May 6th, 2020 | Invisible AI has raised $3.6M; First Dollar picks up $5M; Vndly landed $8.5M; Limbix secured $9M
Every Mother: Every Mother’s streaming fitness app aims to help pregnant and post-natal women regain their core strength. Every Mother has rais... |
| 25.11.2019 | The AVC Helium Hotspot Discount Code | Last Thursday I wrote about the Helium launch in NYC and suggested that readers might want to purchase a Helium hotspot.
Well, I have good news. AVC readers can buy a Helium hotspot with a discount.
Here is how you do it.
1/ Go to the Heliu... |
| 21.11.2019 | The NYC Helium Network | On Tuesday night, our portfolio company Helium launched the Helium Network in NYC.
As many of you know, Helium is a peer to peer low bandwidth wireless network that anyone can run a hotspot for. I wrote about our hotspot in our apartment in... |
| 07.11.2019 | Helium activates wireless network for IoT devices in more than 425 US cities | https://d1rytvr7gmk1sx.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/20180815_IoTCheatSheet_Teena.mp4
Your mobile phone, your tablet, your laptop, and similar devices all rely on Wi-Fi and cellular for connectivity. But Internet of Things (IoT)... |
| 12.10.2019 | Video Of The Week: The Dangers Of A Centralized Internet | Amir Haleem, founder and CEO of USV portfolio company Helium, gave this talk last year and it explains why he started Helium. |
| 02.10.2019 | Our Helium Hotspot | Back in June I wrote about a company we recently invested in called Helium.
Helium is creating a decentralized low power and low bandwidth wireless network for the exploding number of smart devices out in the world.
We got our hotspot yeste... |
| 24.09.2019 | Crypto-Powered IoT Networks Are on Their Way to Over 250 US Cities | When internet-of-things (IoT) startup Helium first announced its crypto-mining modems, sales of the devices were limited to users in Austin, Texas.
The company quickly sold out of its first production run designated for the Texas capital, b... |
| 13.06.2019 | Why Bird Wants to Buy Smaller Electric Scooter Rival Scoot: Term Sheet | SCOOTING INTO SAN FRANCISCO
The crowded scooter market is starting to consolidate.
Paid Content Securing the enterprise without boundaries From ExtraHop
So why Scoot? The second I saw the news, I thought “Duh, it’s about San Francisco.” Rem... |
| 13.06.2019 | Helium Raises $15M in Series C Funding | Helium, a San Francisco, CA-based peer-to-peer wireless network, raised $15m in Series C funding.
The round, which brought total funding to $51M, was co-led by Union Square Ventures and Multicoin Capital, with participation from existing ba... |
| 12.06.2019 | Helium launches $51M-funded ‘LongFi’ IoT alternative to cellular | With 200X the range of Wi-Fi at 1/1000th of the cost of a cellular modem, Helium’s “LongFi” wireless network debuts today. Its transmitters can help track stolen scooters, find missing dogs via IoT collars and collect data from infrastructu... |
| 12.06.2019 | Helium | One of the pillars of USV’s investment thesis 3.0 is “broadening access to capital”, and we often get asked what we mean by that. While “capital” includes financial capital, we have always meant it more broadly, to include human capital, te... |
| 12.06.2019 | Helium raises $15 million to float fee-free, peer-to-peer networking | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Cellphone plans are expensive. The average person spends about $80 per month on data, according to price comparison engine Flipsy, whic... |
| 12.06.2019 | Helium | One of the areas of blockchain innovation I am most excited about is building open, permissionless, and decentralized technology infrastructure.
The three areas that seem most obvious to me for decentralized infrastructure are compute (code... |
| 12.06.2019 | Napster Founder's IoT Startup to Go Crypto With $15 Million Series C | An internet-of-things (IoT) startup founded in 2013 is adding tokens to its business model with the backing of two of crypto's best-known funders.
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announced Wednesday a $15 million Series C co-led by Union Square Ventures and Multico... |
| 12.06.2019 | Helium raises $15 million to float fee-free, peer-to-peer networking | Cellphone plans are expensive. The average person spends about $80 per month on data, according to price comparison engine Flipsy, which amounts to around $57,600 over 60 years. Unsurprisingly, an estimated 53% of young adults aged 20-30 op... |
| 19.07.2017 | New solution streamlines IoT connectivity | The IoT presents a challenge for organizations as they have to configure, secure and manage massive numbers of devices.
A new product suite from productivity specialist Helium is aimed at streamlining the ability to prototype, deploy and sc... |
| 25.08.2016 | The Challenges 9 Traceability and Food Safety Technology Startups Face in Disrupting the Industry | Traceability and food safety technology are a relatively small but growing part of the food and agriculture technology ecosystem.
Technologies working on improving food safety and traceability range in their application but mostly focus on ... |
| 22.05.2016 | Why the Internet of Things Will Be Huge for Businesses | This piece was originally published on Uncubed.
Internet-connected devices were supposed to change your home, your car, and your life. For now, though, the real-world applications for the internet of things (IoT) have been somewhat limited,... |
| 03.05.2016 | Are insurance devices the next billion dollar IoT market? | Most pundits value the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) more than the consumer side — at least for the next ten years — and one of the most valuable markets might be smart insurance devices.
Helium, a San Francisco startup, is attemptin... |
| 28.04.2016 | Fundings-in-Brief: Harvard Business School Invests in UK Satellite Startup, Middleland Backs Flower Delivery, more | UK Satellite Startup Rezatec Closes $1.46m Seed Round
Based in the UK, satellite company Rezatec has raised a $1.46 million seed round with Russian-led Run Capital and Harvard Business School Alumni Angels. Located in Hartwell’s Satellite A... |
| 25.04.2016 | Helium Raises $20 Million Series B Funding Round to Accelerate Smart Sensing Solutions | GV Leads Investment Round that includes Khosla Ventures, FirstMark Capital, and Munich RE/HSB Ventures
SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–April 25, 2016–
Helium, a San Francisco-based Internet of Things (IoT) company that helps you make sense of... |
| 25.04.2016 | Daily funding roundup - April 25, 2016 | SIRIN Labs closed $72M Series A round; Helium raised $20M; Kamcord nabbed $10M funding
azeti Networks AG, a provider of remote asset management software serving the IoT market, closed a $4 million dollar round of funding led by Wim Elfrink,... |
| 25.04.2016 | Helium raises $20 million for smart industrial sensors | Helium has raised $20 million in a new round of funding for its smart industrial sensor business. The San Francisco company has also created a new sensor, the Helium Green, for the industrial and enterprise applications of the Internet of T... |
| 25.04.2016 | Helium raises $20 million for smart industrial sensors | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Helium has raised $20 million in a new round of f... |
| 25.04.2016 | Helium Closes $20M in Series B Funding | Helium, a San Francisco-based Internet of Things (IoT) analytics company, closed $20m in Series B funding round.
The round was led by GV (formerly Google Ventures), with participation from Khosla Ventures, FirstMark and Munich RE/Hartford S... |
| 30.09.2015 | How To Keep IoT Hunters And Poachers Out Of Your Food And Farms | Karin Kloosterman Contributor
Karin Kloosterman is the CEO of flux, a smart device company that helps consumers grow healthier and safer food efficiently using hydroponics.
A drone equipped to “sniff” Zigbee flew over an Austin neighborhood... |
| 21.06.2015 | Enterprise Software’s Trillion-Dollar Opportunity | Aaron Levie Contributor
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Outside of the tech industry, an unmistakable trend is sweeping the busi... |
| 05.05.2011 | Self-Publishing Site Helium Raises Another $10 Million | Self-publishing content company Helium has raised another 10 million in debt financing according to a SEC filing from earlier today. Listed on the the filing are President Mark Renalli, and board members Ann Bushell and John Paloian from RR... |
| 24.08.2010 | Apple Shares iTunes U Stats: 350,000 Files Available, 300 Million Downloads So Far | Apple this morning said iTunes U downloads have topped 300 million, making it one of the world’s most popular online educational catalogs. The company also says over 800 universities throughout the world have active iTunes U sites, and near... |
| 11.07.2010 | Happy Sunday! The BP spill could trigger a methane explosion, mass extinction | This is a totes magotes bummer: according to theories posited by the author of this piece, Terrance Aym, and backed up by data from geo-chemists like Northwestern University’s Gregory Ryskin, the BP oil spill could release massive amounts o... |
| 22.01.2010 | Seed's Goal Is To "Redefine Journalism For The Internet Age," Its Reality Is Untangling Cat Hair | Last December, Saul Hansell left his job as a veteran reporter and blogger at the New York Times to become the programming director for Aol’s Seed, which is the new online assignment desk for Aol’s 80 different Websites. In his first blog p... |
| 17.01.2010 | Aol Quietly Launches An Expert Site Called Owl, and Feeds It Seed | Aol’s answer to Wikipedia is Owl, a new site described as “a living, breathing library where useful knowledge, opinions and images are posted from experts the world over.”
Owl seems more of a testbed for Seed than anything else. Seed, of co... |
| 06.09.2009 | BloggersBase Is A Discovery Engine For The Blogosphere | There are millions of blogs on the web and making sense of all of this user generated content can be a challenge. Israeli startup BloggerBase hopes to solve this problem by offering a competition-based discovery platform that aggregates con... |
| 03.02.2009 | Huffington Post’s Lerer teaches journalism students to think like VCs | [Editor’s note: As newspapers watch their business models crumble, journalism schools are moving fast to restructure their curricula to emphasize technology and new media. Below, Columbia journalism graduate student Chikodi Chima reviews a ... |
| 01.11.2008 | Funding roundup: Playfish, Helium raise $17M | Playfish, Helium, TuneCore, and iStores receive funding this week Here's a roundup of companies in the mobile, video, digital media, social network, and advertising sectors that announced their funding this past week.
Playfish raised $17 mi... |
| 30.10.2008 | Google Knol Opens In French, German and Italian (Update: And More) | Google Knol, which we’ve likened to a monetizable Wikipedia upon launch, has quietly released three international versions today, enabling French, German and Italian speaking experts (or people who like to think they are experts) to contrib... |
| 27.10.2008 | Helium Raises $17 Million, Lays Off 30 Percent of Employees | The bomb-shelter mentality among startups is now so severe that even companies raising money are announcing layoffs in response to diminished economic prospects. Boston-based Helium just closed a $17 million series A financing about ten day... |
| 27.10.2008 | Reference site Helium raises $17M, lays off 18 | Looks like a fresh infusion of venture capital isn’t always enough to stave off layoffs. Helium, a site where users can write articles sharing advice and debating hot topics, has raised $17 million in a first round of funding, according to ... |
| 27.10.2008 | Helium Raises $17M, Fires 18 | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Helium, the Andover, MA-based online marketplace for writers, recently finished raising a $17 million Series A financing round and almost simultaneously cut its staff by 18 pe... |
| 22.10.2008 | The Examiner.com Now Wants to Become A Bastion Of Citizen Journalism | The Examiner.com is not what it appears to be. It is not the online outlet for the Examiner newspapers (the San Francisco Examiner,Baltimore Examiner, and Washington, D.C. Examiner) owned by billionaire Philip Anschutz. It is, however, owne... |
| 23.04.2008 | Helium's Reward-A-Thon (Occasionally) Leads to Big Paydays | The online writing community Helium recently ended its 100 day reward-a-thon, during which contributors were rewarded with small bonuses for each article they submitted.
Helium serves as both a directory and marketplace for user generated a... |
| 29.03.2008 | OutQuib wants to be the new home of online debate | Great, now we’ve got another place to argue on the web. OutQuib is a new site that allows you to have discussions about any topic that interests you, with a social network built around those debates. It’s kind of like existing site Essembly... |
| 11.03.2008 | Content Marketplace Helium Officially Launches | Citizen journalism site Helium has today officially launched its content marketplace after 7 months in beta testing.
We’ve covered the service twice before, once in 2006, then last year when Helium Marketplace first opened its doors. Helium... |
| 20.01.2007 | Next TechCrunch Event | The last two TechCrunch parties were a great success, and I particularly enjoyed meeting people that I knew only through blogging at the New York event last November. We’re in the planning stages of the next TechCrunch event, to be held mid... |
| 16.11.2006 | Let's Get This Party Started! | The TechCrunch New York Party kicks off in three hours, 7 PM EST, at BED in Manhattan.
The final guest list is here, although it doesn’t include sponsor attendees and press. All attendees should have received an email confirmation of the pa... |
| 27.10.2006 | Update on TechCrunch NY Event: Wait List Opened | The 450 slots we opened up for the TechCrunch New York party on November 16, 2006 were sold out in about four hours. We know a certain number of people won’t show up, so we are now opening up a wait list for additional guests.
Here’s the co... |
| 11.10.2006 | Helium: click to compare other peoples' topical writing | Massachusetts based Helium launched its user generated article database yesterday and combines original writing with user rankings and profit sharing. It’s an interesting model that’s more compelling that proved more compelling than I thoug... |
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What Are Web3 Cryptos? | Web3 cryptos are a new wave of cryptocurrencies that focus on making the decentralized vision of Web3 a reality. They combine blockchain technology with smart contracts to give people control over their data and make transactions without re... |
| - | Move-to-earn token STEPN surged 920% since its March launch. A crypto VC at a $120 million fund shares 2 alternatives to watch that have solid business models — and explains why he refuses to backstop... | Viktor Fischer, managing partner at Rockaway blockchain fund Rockaway blockchain fund This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| - | An ultimate guide to 10 top altcoins, their real-world applications, and why investors are betting their tech is the future of crypto | In this photo illustration of the litecoin, ripple and ethereum cryptocurrency 'altcoins' sit arranged for a photograph Jack Taylor/Getty Image This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading ... |
