Helios Life Enterprises, Inc.

Unlocking the power of voice in finance.

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Fintech
  • Location Albany, NY, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded February 2018
  • Employees 8
  • Incorporation Type C-corp
  • Website helioslife.enterprises

Company Summary

The first alternative data product to provide an automated data feed that taps into the tonal properties of voice.

- Full US equity coverage
- Unique tonal fingerprinting per speaker
- Alpha generation for hedge funds

A new and systematically untapped set of information for integration into trading for asset managers within the $20B alternative data space.

Team

  • Sean Austin
    Chief Operating Officer

    B.S. from Rensselaer with 10 years in Consumer Technology
    First US employee for Tunigo, the first acquisition by Spotify in 2013
    Worked on platforms in FinTech, real estate, pharmaceutical, retail, and field management services
    Managed product for $4m Series A funded healthcare startup in October 2019
    Relationship with Dr. Schalk: 
10 years / 4 companies / 1 provisional patent

  • Gerwin Schalk
    Chief Scientific Officer

    World-renown entrepreneurial scientist and signal processing engineer:
1) recognized by a published study as 5th-most productive scientist in his 
 domain world-wide (at age 40, #1 world-wide under 55 yrs)
2) Higher productivity than average nobel prize winner (>18k citations; H-index 51)
    9 pending/issued patents
    His work has been featured 100+ times in prime national and international media
    Co-founded 4 startups, incl. one in B round

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