Top Telecommunications Startups in 2024

We are redefining business communications once again. We're making communications more flexible, intelligent, and personal, to help enterprises the world over, stay ahead. We provide unified communications, contact centers and programmable communications APIs, built on the world's most flexible cloud communications platform. True to our roots as a technology disruptor, our flexible approach helps us to better serve the growing collaboration, communications, and customer experience needs of companies, across all communications channels.

HootBoard is a leading visitor information and wayfinding kiosk platform. It is designed to help smart cities, tourism departments, and universities create a more engaging and informative experience for their visitors. Also, it includes advanced Digital Out-of-Home(DOOH) advertising features that help media companies expand their advertising reach to locations where traditional OOH media is not allowed. At HootBoard, we believe that the future of visitor information and advertising lies in the integration of technology and convenience. Our platform offers an easy-to-use interface that provides visitors with relevant and timely information, including maps, directions, and event schedules. Also, we help organizations generate additional revenue streams and maximize their inventory. They can sell ads directly, collaborate with our DOOH partner network, or use our programmatic advertising integrations. By investing in our kiosk platform, organizations can expect a return on investment in less than three years. Whether you're a tourism department looking to improve your visitor experience, a smart city seeking to enhance wayfinding and advertising, or a university looking to streamline campus navigation, HootBoard has the solution you need. Contact us today to learn more about how our platform can benefit your organization.

Zilliz is a leading vector database company for production-ready AI. Built by the engineers who created Milvus, the world's most popular open-source vector database, Zilliz is on a mission to unleash data insights with AI. The company builds next-generation database technologies to help organizations rapidly create AI/ML applications, and unlock the potential of unstructured data. By taking the burden of complex data infrastructure management off of its users, Zilliz is committed to bringing the power of AI to every corporation, every organization, and every individual. Headquartered in San Francisco, Zilliz is backed by a number of prestigious investors, including Aramco's Prosperity7 Ventures, Temasek's Pavilion Capital, Hillhouse Capital, 5Y Capital, Yunqi Partners, Trustbridge Partners and others. Zilliz's technologies and products help over 1000 organizations worldwide easily create AI applications in various scenarios, including computer vision, image retrieval, video analysis, NLP, recommendation engines, targeted ads, customized search, smart chatbots, fraud detection, network security, new drug discovery, and much more. Learn more at zilliz.com or follow @zilliz_universe.

We provide flexible and data focused mobile plans for digital savvy customers. Our aim is to make the customers’ life simpler and happier by giving them power over their mobile needs. Not only do we promote customers building their own plans, so they only pay for what they want, but our services seamlessly evolve with their needs.

RingDNA is the leading end-to-end sales engagement platform that combines enterprise-grade telephony with conversation intelligence. Our client portfolio includes companies like Amazon, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Lyft and Twilio. RingDNA was named to the “Hot 100” best privately held software companies by JMP Securities. The company was also named “One of The Best Privately Owned Companies in America” by Entrepreneur magazine. For more information visit ringDNA.com.

We currently have two public products, Spotter and Trident. Spotter is an ocean sensor that can measure surface conditions of the ocean. Trident is an underwater drone that allows anybody to quickly feel comfortable piloting and exploring beneath the surface. Day-to-day, we are focusing to continuously improving our existing products and services while pushing on responsible, but zealous, scaling and growth. In the pipeline, we have many large projects targeting the health of our oceans and the industries that are based on the water.

Kiln is the leading enterprise-grade staking platform, enabling institutional customers to stake assets, and to whitelabel staking functionality into their offering. Our platform is API-first and enables fully automated validators, rewards, and data and commission management. With over $1.9 billion crypto assets being programmatically staked, Kiln has a particularly strong track record on Ethereum as we run about 3% of the network; this includes 22,000+ validators with 0 slashing events. The team is made up of 45 ecosystem enthusiasts formerly at Google, Circle, Ledger, Chainalysis and other leading technology and cryptocurrency companies. Join Kiln and help us make the web more secure, stable, decentralized and fair!

We accelerate our customers' DX with our reliable data management. To achieve that, we provide two core general-purpose database middleware, ScalarDB and ScalarDL, and several domain-specific applications/middleware that directly solves customers' pain points. ScalarDB is a universal transaction manager that addresses the transaction consistency challenges that arise when multiple separate databases need to interact. Scalar DB is open-sourced under Apache 2 license and is now listed in the database category of CNCF Landscape. A ScalarDB paper that describes its internal mechanism has been accepted by VLDB'23 and will be published soon. github.com/scalar-labs/scalardb landscape.cncf.io/card-mode?category=database&grouping=category ScalarDL is Byzantine-fault detection middleware that addresses the accountability challenges when digitizing data. ScalarDL is available under a commercial license; however, its internal mechanism is explained in an academic paper (VLDB'22). github.com/scalar-labs/scalardl dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.14778/3523210.3523212

At US Mobile, we’re on a mission to revolutionize connectivity. We're building a next-generation connectivity platform to connect the next billion wireless devices onto nationwide 4G and 5G networks, including your phone, drone, car, watch, pet tracker, and everything in between. We’re accomplishing this by leveraging cutting-edge technology and forward-thinking UI design. Whether it’s with our free high-speed international roaming, customizable perks, AI-facilitated plan savings, customizable plans, or real-time dashboards, we’re building the industry’s most delightful user experience all backed by our excellent customer service. We’re a rapidly-growing and innovative start-up with incredible and sustainable growth. We ranked 94th on Inc. 5000's list of private companies in the US in 2019, and we were recently featured this year by Forbes as one of America's top startup employers.

Citylitics delivers predictive intelligence on local utility & public infrastructure markets The U.S. needs to invest $4.5 Trillion over the next 5 years to upgrade its infrastructure, including water, energy, public transit, roads, airports, and more. Citylitics is the only source of predictive intelligence on where, how, and why these infrastructure investments will be made. Our Data Engine transforms over a billion documents buried in 31,000+ cities & utilities data sources into high value intelligence for targeted business development. The largest infrastructure industry leaders rely on Citylitics for external datasets and intelligence reports Citylitics' vision is a world where data drives Trillions of dollars of societal infrastructure investment towards the most ideal social, economic, and environmental outcomes.