{"id":1007568,"date":"2026-05-11T10:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T05:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1007568"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T06:51:10","slug":"german-defense-startup-helsing-nears-18-billion-valuation-in-1-2-billion-round-ft-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/11\/german-defense-startup-helsing-nears-18-billion-valuation-in-1-2-billion-round-ft-says\/","title":{"rendered":"German defense startup Helsing nears $18 billion valuation in $1.2 billion round, FT says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>German defense startup Helsing is set to raise new funding at a valuation of about $18 billion, the Financial Times reported on Saturday. The $1.2 \u2060billion \u2060fundraising is being led by US firm Dragoneer Investment Group, with existing backer Lightspeed Venture Partners acting as co-lead, the FT said, citing people familiar with the matter. <\/p>\n<p>The latest \u200cHelsing fundraising was \u200boversubscribed \u200bmultiple times, the FT said. The fundraising plans are at an \u200badvanced stage but the timing has \u200bnot yet been finalised, the newspaper said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German defense startup Helsing is set to raise new funding at a valuation of about $18 billion, the Financial Times reported on Saturday. The $1.2 \u2060billion \u2060fundraising is being led by US firm Dragoneer Investment Group, with existing backer Lightspeed Venture Partners acting as co-lead, the FT said, citing people familiar with the matter. The latest \u200cHelsing fundraising was \u200boversubscribed \u200bmultiple times, the FT said. The fundraising plans are at an \u200badvanced stage but the timing has \u200bnot yet been finalised, the newspaper said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007596,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007568\/revisions\/1007596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}