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Helicity Space

HQ BerkeleyFounded 20181-10 employees

HELICITY SPACE DEVELOPS IN-SPACE FUSION PROPULSION AND POWER TECHNOLOGY CRITICAL TO HUMANITY’S EXPANSION INTO THE SOLAR SYSTEM

StartupResearchInertial and pulsed-power fusion
Website
Total raised
$5.0M
2 rounds
Last round
Undisclosed
Strategic · Apr 2, 2024
Systems
1
Capabilities
1

Funding2 rounds · $5.0M

Equity raised
$5.0M
Latest
UndisclosedStrategic · Apr 2, 2024

Raised counts equity rounds; debt, secondary sales and grants are totaled separately. Amounts in other currencies are converted at the announcement month's average rate. A ~ marks an estimated or converted amount.

Systems1

Helicity Drive

A fusion propulsion engine under development for deep-space vehicles.

Maturity not rated

Newest unveiled first. Open a system for its milestone timeline, components and sources.

Capabilities1

Maturity and TRL describe this organization's work; the field-wide maturity is on each technology's page.

People2

All 2 people →

Sources9

Profile3

  1. 1
    DatabaseHelicity Space - PitchBook company profile

    PitchBook · Supports Organization · employee range, Organization · founded year, Organization · linkedin url, Organization · x url

    “employee_range: 1-10 (profile: 10)”
  2. 2
    DatabaseSixth-Domain public startups directory

    Sixth-Domain · Supports Organization · country, Organization · kind

    “{"country": "USA", "hq_iso2": "US", "id": "5cb9585b-cbce-460b-9458-88e96f6fd6bf"}”
  3. 3
    DatabaseHelicity Space - LinkedIn company profile

    LinkedIn · Supports Organization · employee range, Organization · linkedin url

    “employee_range: 1-10 (profile: 2-10 employees)”

Systems1

  1. 4
    CompanyHelicity Space

    Helicity Space · Supports Organization · description, Organization · name, Organization · website, Organization technology, System

    “HELICITY SPACE DEVELOPS IN-SPACE FUSION PROPULSION AND POWER TECHNOLOGY CRITICAL TO HUMANITY’S EXPANSION INTO THE SOLAR SYSTEM”

Technologies1

  1. 5
    CompanyTECHNOLOGY — Helicity Space

    Helicity Space · Supports Organization technology

    “Compared to other techniques, Helicity focuses on a new magneto-inertial fusion method with self-organized Taylor relaxation and magnetic reconnection physics coupled with a peristaltic magnetic compression scheme.”

Funding3

  1. 6
    CompanyHelicity Space Secures Investment from Lockheed Martin Ventures

    Helicity Space · Apr 2, 2024 · Supports Funding round, Organization · ownership

    “today announces an investment from Lockheed Martin Ventures”
  2. 7
    NewsHelicity Space raises $5 million for fusion engine development

    SpaceNews · Dec 11, 2023 · Supports Funding round · amount

    “has raised $5 million in a seed funding round announced Dec. 11”
  3. 8
    NewsHelicity Space raises $5M to unlock fusion propulsion

    TechCrunch · Dec 11, 2023 · Supports Funding round · amount

    “has closed a $5 million seed funding”

People1

  1. 9
    DatabaseHelicity Space - Crunchbase company profile

    Crunchbase · Supports Organization · employee range, Organization · hq city, Organization · linkedin url, Role

    “employee_range: 1-10 (profile: 1-10)”

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