{"city":"Everett","name":"Helion","slug":"helion","facts":[{"date":"2026-09-01","type":"headcount","value":"800","source":"lynnwoodtimes.com"},{"date":"2026-09-01","type":"total_funding","value":"USD 1500000000","source":"helionenergy.com"},{"date":"2026-09-01","type":"funding_round","value":"Series G","source":"helionenergy.com"},{"date":"2025-07-22","type":"deployment","value":"Began site construction for Orion, Helion's first fusion power plant, in Malaga, Washington","source":"helionenergy.com"},{"date":"2025-01-28","type":"funding_round","value":"Series F","source":"helionenergy.com"},{"date":"2023-09-27","type":"partnership","value":"Collaboration with Nucor to deploy a fusion power plant supplying zero-carbon electricity to a Nucor steelmaking facility","source":"helionenergy.com"}],"peers":[],"stage":"private","state":"Washington","aliases":[],"country":"United States","domains":[{"why":"Helion builds Orion, a fusion power plant designed to supply Microsoft with electricity for its data-center operations.","list":null,"rank":null,"tier":"watchlist","layer":null,"total":48,"domain":"AI Core","scores":{"leverage":4,"position":4,"progress":8,"firepower":8,"commercial":1,"deployment":4,"production":5,"technology":3},"edition":null,"segment":null}],"founded":null,"signals":[{"date":"2026-10-23","header":"The US Department of Commerce committed up to $389 million in R&D funding for power semiconductors supporting fusion and advanced computing.","outlet":"Data Center Dynamics"},{"date":"2026-10-13","header":"AMD introduced its Helion AI-agent rack design with support from Cisco and seven other vendors.","outlet":"Yicai"},{"date":"2026-10-13","header":"AMD unveiled the CPU-centric Helion AI data-center rack design.","outlet":"The Elec"},{"date":"2026-10-12","header":"AMD unveiled the Helion rack-scale computing platform for agentic AI.","outlet":"ZDNet Korea"},{"date":"2026-10-12","header":"AMD’s Helion platform supports configurable CPU-only and integrated CPU-GPU racks.","outlet":"ZDNet Korea"},{"date":"2026-08-20","header":"Helion signed a Microsoft power purchase agreement for 50 MW in 2028.","outlet":"Metatrends"}],"website":"https://www.helionenergy.com/","category":"AI Infra · Power, cooling & thermal","categories":[{"name":"AI Infra · Power, cooling & thermal","domain":"AI Core","parent":null}],"last_round":null,"updated_at":"2026-10-24T10:00:52.447+00:00","facts_total":11,"positioning":"","sub_category":null,"signals_total":18,"url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/helion","title":"Helion · ai core, Everett, Washington, United States · scores, facts and signals · Frontier Tech Intelligence","description":"Helion builds Orion, a fusion power plant designed to supply Microsoft with electricity for its data-center operations. AI Core watchlist (score 48) 18 signals and 11 facts with sources.","publisher":"Frontier Tech Intelligence (Future Frontiers, a trade name of Essential Cognition Inc.)","note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}