📝 Helios raises $4M

Liam Gill
July 16, 2025

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Helios, a startup founded by former White House and State Department staffers Joe Scheidler and Joseph Farsakh, has emerged from stealth with $4 million in seed funding to build “Proxi,” an AI-powered operating system for public policy, regulatory, legal, and compliance professionals. Combining policy expertise with secure LLM agents, Proxi includes tools for real-time legislative monitoring (“Consult”), AI-assisted writing (“Scribe”), document analysis (“Decipher”), and stakeholder management (CRM). While still in beta, it’s already gaining traction among government agencies and Fortune 500 firms. With top-tier encryption and compliance in progress, Helios is aiming to become the go-to platform for public-private policy work. This long-term vision pits it against giants like Palantir and Bloomberg Government.

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