{"id":58106,"date":"2022-02-18T20:02:13","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T18:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=58106"},"modified":"2025-09-04T15:03:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T12:03:26","slug":"media-helium-a-defi-project-raises-200-million-at-a-1-2-billion-valuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/media-helium-a-defi-project-raises-200-million-at-a-1-2-billion-valuation\/","title":{"rendered":"Media: Helium, a DeFi project, raises $200 million at a $1.2 billion valuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The decentralized telecommunications project Helium closed a Series D financing round of $200 million, <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/crypto-startup-helium-raises-200-million-36aafa19-d6af-4a00-8dc4-ff6fe10925b7.html\\\">Axios<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>According to the publication, the startup&#8217;s valuation reached $1.2 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The funding was allegedly provided by Tiger Global and FTX Ventures, as well as early investors: Khosla Ventures, GV, Multicoin Capital, Munich Re Ventures and FirstMark Capital.<\/p>\n<div class=\\\"wp-block-text-wrappers-update-2 article_update\\\"><time class=\\\"gtb_text-wrappers_update_time\\\">18 February 2022 | 20:06<\/time><span class=\\\"gtb_text-wrappers_update_head\\\">Update: <\/span><\/p>\n<p>In response to Forklog&#8217;s inquiry, Helium representatives said they declined to comment on speculation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In August 2021, during a token sale <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-08-10\/andreessen-backed-5g-blockchain-firm-helium-raises-111-million?sref=AACmJ2tc\\\">raised<\/a> $111 million from Andreessen Horowitz, Alameda Research, Ribbit Capital, 10T Holdings and Multicoin Capital.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2022, the Axelar blockchain interoperability network <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/cross-chain-protocol-axelar-raises-35-million-at-a-1-billion-valuation\">raised $35 million at a $1 billion valuation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 full news feed, <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news, infographics and opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decentralized telecommunications project Helium closed a Series D financing round of $200 million, Axios reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1093,1680,1133],"class_list":["post-58106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-defi","tag-helium-hnt","tag-venture-investments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"25","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58108,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58106\/revisions\/58108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}