HelixIntel Blog

Michael Mainier isn’t a natural risk-taker. But he woke up one morning this winter and knew it was time to trade in his corporate banking career for HelixIntel, the startup he’d been dabbling in for months. In the nine months since, the Buffalo-based firm has doubled its team to 10 employees, closed out a $1.6 million…

HelixIntel has added some of the nation’s leading voices in eCommerce, data science, facilities management and cleantech to its Board of Advisors, including James Finn, Cassandra John, Robert F. Parker, Jamel C. Perkins and Xiaoyan Zhang, Ph.D. James Finn has experience in overseeing all aspects of digital transformation in omnichannel commerce/eBusiness, including digital procurement strategy, customer…

Rohit Gupta was working at a San Francisco investment firm that specialized in real estate as the housing crisis of 2008 began to spiral. Gupta was struck by his firm’s exposure to the broader whims of that market, even if his own company was acting responsibly. He was also meeting lots of ambitious Bay Area startup…

Today, HelixIntel announced that it has closed $1.6 million in investment to fuel its continued growth. Investors include Motivate Ventures, Future Communities Capital, Green Egg Ventures, Launch NY’s Investor Network and others. With HelixIntel, small businesses get a free, simple-to-use online platform that lets them track unlimited pieces of equipment, match that equipment with optimized…