Announcing the Helius Startup Launchpad

Helius' mission is to increase the economic potential of the world’s developers through crypto.

Today, we're launching the Helius Startup Launchpad to accelerate crypto's most ambitious startups.

Why? Many crypto founders excel at engineering but fall short across sales, fundraising, and business ops.

The Helius' developer platform helps you ship code, but the Helius Startup Launchpad helps you build a business.

We’re partnering with Solana’s top investors and operators to provide early-stage startups with the support they need to accelerate.

What's the Problem?

Solana builders are highly technical but lack the experience needed to form an actual business. We've noticed that our customers are often talented engineers, but need help on sales, go-to-market, and even legal. A business requires a cross-functional effort across sales, hiring, fundraising, operations, legal, marketing, support, and engineering. And it must do this while relentlessly searching for PMF. This is no easy task, which is why founders must focus on it above all else. With Helius, we already give you all the technical tools you need to succeed, but that's not enough. With this launchpad, we will further help you with mentoring, support, and ecosystem integrations so that you get your time and money back to keep iterating on product.

What We Offer

We’ve curated experts across every discipline and steep discounts to help you quickly launch your product on Helius and grow your company with confidence.

More specifically, this program provides:

• 8 months of free Business tier access
• Exclusive discounts from our partners
• Mentorship from veteran Solana operators
• Access to private working groups and education
• Warm intros to crypto's most influential investors

Our current investor and accelerator partners include Chapter One, Founders Fund, Foundation Capital, Haun Ventures, 6th Man Ventures, Propel, Solana Ventures, Colosseum, and the Solana Labs Accelerator.

We also have support from teams like Squads, Sphere, Ottersec, Moonpay, Artemis, Dynamic, and more.

Who Should Apply

While every team is encouraged to apply, this program isn't for everyone.

This program is for founders who build for the long term.

We’re looking for teams that have some combination of the following:

• Have a working product
• Are a pre-seed or seed stage company (or earlier!)
• Graduated from other web3 accelerators
• Won or placed at recent Solana hackathons
• Are referred by well-known VCs or angel investors

If this sounds like you, apply now.

Become a Partner

If you’re an investor, angel, or startup-enabling company we want to help accelerate your portcos. We also want to work with companies offering essential products and services to early-stage crypto startups.

By joining the Helius Startup Launchpad as a partner, you:

• Get early access to Solana’s most promising young startups
• Shape the development of next-generation crypto applications
• Join an exclusive network of industry leaders and decision-makers

If you’re interested in working with Solana's best startups and providing exclusive discounts, co-working spaces, mentorship, intros, or training, become a partner.

Ready to Build?

Never before in history has the builder had such leverage to move the world.

In crypto, with a few lines of code, you can:

• move millions of dollars around the Earth at the speed of light
• create unstoppable, global capital markets
• architect entire economies

All without permission.

The Internet enables the flow of information across the globe—crypto turns information into value and value into information.

The startup is now as powerful as the nation-state. Or at least, it has the potential to be. All startups can now contribute to the global economy and accelerate progress. But this is no easy task, for they must also fight against physics, incumbents, and time.

If you're interested in this fight, apply now.