Helium’s three co-founders Amir Haleem, Shawn Fanning and Sean Carey started the company in 2013.
Haleem has an active eSports and game development background. Fanning, by contrast, is well known for developing Napster, the music sharing service which was one of the first mainstream peer-to-peer ([P2P](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/peer-to-peer-p2p)) internet services in the late 1990s.
Carey meanwhile held multiple development roles prior to Helium, which included advertising optimization firm Where, acquired by PayPal.
Helium’s team now consists of members which the company says have experience in “radio and hardware, manufacturing, distributed systems, peer-to-peer and blockchain technologies.”