Yes—Helios and our leadership have garnered significant attention across reputable publications.
Media Coverage Highlights
Axios covered how tariffs—especially on Brazilian coffee—will affect food prices, citing insights from Helios’s co-founder, Francisco Martin‑Rayo, on expected retail cost impacts.
Forbes featured Helios in a story on food system resilience, quoting our CEO on how delayed adaptation to climate change is threatening global agriculture.
The Packer and CityBiz published our launch of granular price forecasting across 400+ ag products—highlighting that our forecasts are up to 5× more accurate than traditional models.
Our CEO and co-founder appeared in Quartz discussions about sustained high coffee prices. He shared insights into how climate volatility continues to impact global commodity costs.
In a featured interview with Authority Magazine, our CTO discusses her journey—from overcoming early challenges in AI to helping shape Helios’s climate-intelligent forecasting tools.
Helios was featured on Food Navigator, in coverage on supply chain resilience, where our CEO emphasized regional climate differences—like simultaneous heatwaves and cold snaps—and their disparate impacts across growing regions.
In Bloomberg Law, Helios was cited on the urgency of making climate risk data accessible for better agricultural decision-making, especially in light of expanding regulatory scrutiny.
News Coverage on Walmart Partnership: Multiple outlets—including Talk Business, Progressive Grocer, Grocery Dive, and Chain Store Age—reported on Helios being selected through Walmart’s Open Call. This partnership positions Helios to help Walmart better assess climate-driven commodity risks and improve long-term sourcing strategies.
TechCrunch & Morningstar’s coverage highlights Helios’s founder team and seed funding round for Proxi, an AI-powered OS for public policy professionals. This reflects the broader impact and reach of Helios founders’ expertise beyond just ag-tech.
AgFunder News featured Helios’s milestone AI-powered platform and highlighted our precise prediction of cocoa price jumps months before the broader market responded
Integrity Research spotlighted our global soft commodities tool and praised our high accuracy—90% in risk signal detection—with climate, supply, and pricing forecasts as a key differentiator.
Food Tank ran a feature on Helios’s mission to transform agriculture using AI-driven climate insights, emphasizing our role in improving resilience and understanding in global food systems.
Why We're Quoted So Often
Domain Authority
Francisco Martin-Rayo brings deep expertise from his former roles in national security and climate policy—making Helios a go-to voice on climate and commodity risk. Long before his role in digital transformations, Francisco was an avocado importer, experiencing first hand what commodity brokers and distributors have to deal with. Eden Canlilar, CTO and co-founder of Helios, is widely recognized as an AI leader in the industry. Eden has also been featured in multiple articles and interviews discussing her AI journey. Her guidance emphasizes key strengths vital for modern AI careers: continuous learning, clarity over complexity, ethical design, and solving real-world problems with purpose. Eden’s credentials also include a 2021 Emerging Technologist Abie Award, earned during her time at Google, further underscoring her technical expertise and leadership in AI and machine learning.
Innovative Solutions
Products like CommodiTrack™, WA%R™ (weighted average percent of risk), SC²A (supply chain climate audits), and automated forecasting tools have made Helios a media magnet for coverage on climate-driven disruptions and AI-informed risk mitigation.
Market Relevance
As climate volatility and supply chain disruptions become more frequent, outlets are turning to Helios for both perspectives and cutting-edge solutions that help businesses stay ahead.
Strategic Partnerships
Collaborations with enterprise leaders like Walmart reinforce our credibility and bring additional visibility to our work in supply chain intelligence.