ATHENS, GREECE - April 01, 2002 - Helic S.A. a global leader in the development of Silicon-Centric Radio ModulesTM for the wireless communications convergence has been selected among the best of Europe's private venture-backed high-tech companies to present its business plan at the European Investment Forum to be held in Stockholm, on April 9, 2002.
The European Investment Forum is Europe's leading technology investment event for early-stage to 2nd round financed technology companies from Europe, presenting 28 venture-backed technology companies to a global audience of venture-capitalists, corporate investors and professional service-providers.
Helic experiences significant growth rates and in combination with its announcement of the world's first interoperable Cellular/WLAN PolyradioTM transceiver it has drawn the attention of the global leaders of the wireless industry and a "bouquet" of customers, some of which are the largest wireless public-traded OEMs of electronic devices, mobile handsets and PCMCIA cards for notebooks.
"The invitation to this major investment event in the European continent was another means of reward for Helic's outstanding performance over the past months", commented Yorgos Koutsoyannopoulos, CEO of Helic.
About Helic
Helic S.A., established in May 2000 and headquartered in Athens, is a fabless maker of silicon RF ICs and highly integrated modules for broadband wireless convergence. Helic's products are silicon-centric system-in-package modules, addressing GSM/GPRS/EDGE, 3G and WLAN markets. For powering its multi-standard analog front-end solutions, the company leverages unique RF silicon and system-in-package technologies it has been developing for the past 2 years. Helic has raised its first round of financing from a consortium of European VCs, CyVenture Capital Ltd., Alpha Ventures S.A. and Armada Partners Ltd.
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