? Featured “The People’s Network”, Helium empowers everyone to be rewarded in $HNT for mining and creating a global wireless network for the Internet of Things (IoT). Helium was founded in 2013 by Amir Haleem and Shawn Fanning with a mission to make it easier to build and connect wireless devices for the Internet of Things (IoT) Amir is the CEO & co-founder of Helium. Prior to Helium, Amir served a long career in the videogame industry as CTO at gaming startup Diversion, and a member of the original team behind Battlefield 1942 at DICE in Stockholm, Sweden. Helium believes that a new economic model can be created through a blockchain-based incentive mechanism to unlock the dynamic application ecosystem that does not yet exist. Helium has raised equity funding from some of the most prominent Venture Capital (VC) firms in the world in 2019, including Khosla Ventures, FirstMark Capital, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Multicoin Capital, and others.