Helios Capital

Helios Capital logo
United States$25K – $1M

About Helios Capital

Permanent, flexible single-family-office co-investor centered on frontier/new-space and adjacent deeptech, providing lean, hands-on partnership, top investor syndicate access, and philanthropic-to-institutional space ecosystem connectivity via founder Ryan Kriser. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.

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