Over $1 Million Raised For Voice-Based Tonal Analysis, Helios Life Enterprises

NEW YORK, June 3, 2022 - Pioneer in voice-based tonal analysis, Helios Life Enterprises, has raised $750k from angel investors to date. By the end of summer, Helios will have raised over $1 million with the help of a new public fundraising campaign via Republic. With Republic, anyone can become an investor in private markets and invest directly in highly-vetted startups. To learn more about our products, customers, future plans, and tireless team, head over to Helios’ Republic Campaign page and become an investor today.

Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Sean Austin, comments, “Helios was born out of the idea that we can push the limits of what's possible. Our capital strategy has mirrored that with efficient dollars being raised and deployed carefully. With this new tranche of pre-seed capital, Helios will be able to accelerate our already world-leading technology platform. I've never been more excited about the prospects of our small, yet mighty, organization.”

Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, and other tools have made great strides toward bringing voice technology into everyone’s hands. Natural Language Processing (NLP) has also driven incredible progress in teaching computers the meaning of our words. We have all these existing technologies at our fingertips.  So, why is it that we still get frustrated when it seems like our message is not being heard?

The answer is simpler than we think. Existing technologies are, in essence, tone-deaf. While our commands might be heard, our tone is not. Research shows that 40% of the information in a message lies in the tone of the voice. Our words and tone go together like peanut butter and jelly. Can you really have one without the other?

At Helios, we envision a future where tonal insights are universally available. We do this by systematically translating the subtle nuances of an individual’s voice into pieces of information that increase our emotional intelligence. We enable companies to tap into this brand-new field of tonal analysis to incorporate tone into their own products.

With advanced voice-processing and AI technology, Helios currently helps investors generate unique sources of alpha proven to outpace the market. Voice reveals information not registered by traditional text-based analysis and is, therefore, better suited to detect the inner state of an executive. Helios’ models transform large amounts of complicated data, that can oftentimes be disorganized, into a product that is easily understandable by quantitative teams.

Our prior funding ($750K) from Red Tail Ventures and a collection of prominent investors (including NBA Allstar Baron Davis), has been deployed across sales, marketing, and data engineering efforts. Scaled processing of the audio has been a major lever and will continually be emphasized. The more audio that is taken in, the better. Helios has already built a dataset that cannot be replicated and will continue on that mission as we grow. Helios is the first and only organization to create a successful data platform that delivers tonal analytics of executives’ voices.

Since its beta launch in October 2020, Helios has increased data (1000x) and now supplies customers with over one million data points for analysis in our flagship Comprend: Elite product. Additionally, we have increased neurolinguistic tonal features twofold which allows for improved analysis algorithms; expanded coverage to include tonal fingerprints for 4,500+ equities and their executives; and increased the types of audio events covered. Throughout it all, the team has seen accelerated adoption from high-profile clients in the hedge fund space as well as a growing team of experienced advisors.

With this next infusion of investments, Helios plans to unlock our next product, build upon our powerful dataset and add audio tonal dimensions across every source of news to provide unique insights into companies and corporate speakers.

Tone is the number one indicator of what someone is thinking. Helios accounts for those crucial tonal components necessary to being understood. With our technology, an automated call center can detect when a customer gets frustrated, or an investor can know when a corporate executive is hesitating with an answer.  Helios is blazing trails and has created the next wave of Emotion AI and Voice Tech. The future is bright and we are just getting started.

To learn more about our products, customers, future plans, and tireless team, head over to Helios’  Republic Campaign page. With Republic, anyone can become an investor in private markets and invest directly in highly-vetted startups.

About Helios Life Enterprises

Helios Life Enterprises (HLE) is a pioneer in voice-based tonal analysis. HLE is the first and currently only company to conceive and devise a widely available data platform that delivers systematic analytics of an executive’s voice during critical corporate events. These analytics provide novel information that is useful for predicting future earnings surprises, company performance, and cumulative abnormal returns in the context of M&A events. Core product offerings include the Comprehend product suite for buy-side investors of all sizes and in limited pilot Mercury; a scaled research and audio analytics platform that allows a firm to extract full tonal value from their own proprietary audio.

For more information or to request a demonstration, please visit https://www.helioslife.enterprises/.

About Republic

Republic is a financial technology company that specializes in investment-related services in the private markets, which include a retail investment platform, a blockchain advisory service, and a private capital division. Republic has deployed over $900 million in investments, and supported over 600 companies, with a community of over 1.5M users across 100 countries. Republic is backed by dozens of leading investment firms and financial institutions and has co-invested with the best names in venture and private equity.

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BUSINESS CONTACT

Zeynep Yenisey

Director of Marketing

zeynep@helioslife.enterprises

518-212-7163