Where is Helsing headquartered?

Helsing's headquarters are at Mühldorfstraße 8, 81671 Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Munich was a deliberate choice: it places Helsing within Germany's aerospace and defense industrial corridor — Airbus, MTU Aero Engines, Rohde & Schwarz, and the Bundeswehr research institutes are all either headquartered or have major operations in Bavaria. This proximity enables the close collaboration with prime contractors and procurement officials that is central to Helsing's go-to-market.

Munich is also where the executive team is based — both Co-CEOs, the CPO, CTO, and CFO are primarily Munich-resident — and where Helsing held the September 2024 unveiling of the CA-1 Europa UCAV concept, using Bavaria's airspace testing corridors and the assembled European defense press as a backdrop. The co-location of Airbus's Eurofighter program and Helsing's Munich HQ has been operationally significant: the Cirra-Eurofighter partnership development benefited from engineers being able to work across facilities in the same metro area.

For sellers, Munich is the highest-value field engagement city. ABM campaigns, executive dinners, and industry events in Munich and the surrounding Bavaria region have the highest expected return on time invested, as the largest budget decisions and the most senior executive accessibility are concentrated here.

London is Helsing's largest non-German commercial hub and the home of the Plymouth Resilience Factory — the first UK production facility, opened November 2025, dedicated to manufacturing the SG-1 Fathom maritime drone and serving as Helsing's global R&D center of excellence for maritime autonomy. The London office supports UK Ministry of Defence engagement and draws machine learning talent from the British AI research ecosystem (DeepMind alumni, Imperial College, the Turing Institute). Helsing also committed £350 million to the UK in a July 2025 government announcement, cementing the UK as a major theater of operations.

Paris services French defense relationships — France is a co-partner in FCAS alongside Germany and Spain, and Helsing's Cirra and CA-1 Europa programs have French procurement relevance. Berlin operates primarily as a government affairs and policy hub, given proximity to the Bundestag and federal procurement bodies where Gundbert Scherf's former Ministry of Defence relationships are most active. Barcelona hosts engineering and R&D roles (and absorbed Keybotic's robotics team from Madrid following the January 2026 acquisition). Stockholm, opened April 2026, is the newest office and signals Helsing's intent to deepen engagement with the Nordic defense cluster — Sweden (Saab's home market and a strategic investor), Finland, and Norway are all expanding NATO commitments.

RF-1, Helsing's first Resilience Factory, opened in southern Germany in December 2024 with a production capacity of over 1,000 HX-2 units per month — the facility that fulfils the Bundeswehr contract and the Ukraine HX-2 agreement. Helsing has also made a $70M production investment in Estonia, reflecting the country's role as a frontline NATO member and Helsing's commitment to distributed European manufacturing.

For sellers, Helsing's footprint defines clear territory clusters with distinct engagement strategies. The Germany cluster (Munich HQ + Berlin policy office) is where the largest budgets live: the Bundeswehr relationship, major contract decisions, and the executive team are anchored here. Field events, ABM campaigns, and executive-level relationships in Munich have the highest expected value per investment.

London is the second-priority hub, particularly for enterprise software vendors and maritime-adjacent hardware suppliers, given the Plymouth factory ramp and UK MoD engagement. The Helsing UK entity is the contractual home of the Blue Ocean/SG-1 maritime program. Paris matters for vendors with French defense exposure — Dassault, Thales, and Safran all interact with Helsing on FCAS-adjacent programs. Stockholm is emerging as a Nordic hub and is best reached through Saab-connected networks and Nordic defense industry events. Barcelona is primarily an engineering-heavy office where technical sales and developer-relations motions outperform traditional field sales. Time zone alignment is favorable for any European seller: all six offices span CET to GMT, a one-hour window with full business-hours overlap.