Keep your company and background IP. Gain a U.S. manufacturing and market operator.
Helicon works with a small number of serious defense-technology originators. For selected products, we negotiate defined manufacturing and commercialization rights, invest in localization and production, build the U.S. and allied customer pathway, and manage delivery and sustainment. You retain your company, background IP, attribution, and negotiated economic participation.
The relationship in plain English
What you keep
- Your company
- Your background IP and know-how
- Originator attribution
- Control over disclosures before rights are negotiated
- A negotiated continuing technical role
- Negotiated license payments and royalties
What Helicon receives
- Defined manufacturing and commercialization rights for an agreed product, territory, and/or field of use
- The information and cooperation required to localize, qualify, manufacture, sell, and sustain the product
- Written performance, disclosure, quality, support, and termination terms
What Helicon invests and operates
- U.S. product and market localization
- Engineering adaptation and documentation
- Trusted components and supply-chain qualification
- Demonstrations, testing, and customer transition
- Production capacity and quality systems
- Sales, contracting, delivery, training, repair, and sustainment
How the economics work
The originator receives negotiated upfront or milestone consideration and royalties. Helicon earns product, manufacturing, integration, and lifecycle-support margin. Exact terms depend on the technology, evidence, rights, territory, investment required, and customer opportunity.
Core-model statement: Helicon does not need to acquire equity in your company to manufacture and commercialize a selected product. Any exception must be separately negotiated and approved.
Authorizations required
Any license, technology transfer, manufacture, or delivery is implemented only under signed agreements and the required authorizations — including Ukrainian export-control authorization and permits where applicable, and U.S. export, import, and re-transfer requirements.
What Helicon looks for
- A real operational problem and clear user
- Credible evidence from field use, testing, or serious customers
- A responsible, verifiable team
- Clear background-IP ownership
- A lawful path to disclosure, licensing, export, import, and production
- A product that can be localized and manufactured at an attractive cost
- Founder willingness to support transfer, qualification, and sustainment
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