Top Telecommunications Startups in 2027

In a world of MicroCells, FemtoCells, PicoCells, and overall NotAddressingTheRealProblemCells, we designed the BentoCell. It's a cell tower the size of a lunch box that draws less power than a lightbulb. They can be deployed by anyone with the push of a button -- no radio engineers necessary on the ground. They use a decentralized mesh network on the backend to allow for ease of setup and they self calibrate and self configure to ensure optimal network performance with little to no human oversight. They can tap into existing networks to extend coverage, or connect to any form of satellite Internet to provide coverage anywhere in the world, completely off the grid (with a solar panel, that is). Join us in building the lunch box to end all cell towers

Global migration is a 21st-century reality: Whether people are fleeing from something or racing towards better opportunity, finding love or experience new cultures, people are now living side by side in a new way. At Rebtel, we believe in tearing down borders – from the geographical borders that complicate international communication and borderless banking to the cultural borders that keep people divided. We’re on a mission to build products serving the 2 billion modern internationals of the world. We offer work, communication and banking services for anyone crossed a border: Our team mirrors our global audience: we are a diverse team of people from over 40 different countries that get together everyday – and we’d love for you to join us. Do you have what it takes?

Welcome to Cyvl! We are a fast-paced, venture-backed tech company based in Somerville, MA, just a few minutes from downtown Boston, that is growing at an incredible rate. Our team is redefining how governments and civil engineers manage the built environment by connecting the physical and digital worlds with our vehicle-mounted 3D mapping sensors and proprietary data processing algorithms. We are always looking for passionate, curious, and talented individuals to join our growing team. Check out our open positions below and feel free to shoot us a note with any questions at [email protected].

Plaid for telematics data in commercial trucking. Companies building insurance products and fleet software for trucking use their Unified API to access GPS data, safety data and vehicle stats.

Sinch gives mobile developers the best way to add communication into their apps. The company’s platform lets developers integrate voice, SMS, verification, IM, and video into their app in minutes with a few lines of code. Sinch has launched as an independent company with $12 million in funding and is based in Stockholm and San Francisco.

At OpenSignal, big data meets sensor networks. Our mission is to become the global authority on wireless networks. Our main consumer products, OpenSignal (a top developer app) and WifiMapper (featured as best new app), are mobile signal, coverage map and WiFi crowdsourcing apps with over 13 million downloads around the world. OpenSignal enables consumers to stay connected better and longer and allows mobile operators to benchmark and improve their networks. To date, we have provided wireless market insights to customers such as McKinsey, Opera, Telefonica and ChinaMobile. This data and our reports have also been covered by TIME Magazine, CNN and the BBC. Our research has also led to multiple papers published in scientific journals. Our other apps: WeatherSignal turns your phone into a portable weather station with the mission to enable more local and accurate weather forecasting. CrisisSignal provides real-time updates on the state of networks in the wake of disasters.

We are Aiven—a cloud technology startup launched in 2016. We create managed cloud services from the best open source technologies that take the infrastructure worries away from our customers. Our products are used daily by hundreds of customers across the globe to power their next-gen event streaming and analytics applications with more joining every single day. Backed by Europe's leading investors, we’re now looking for top talent to join us in our headquarters in Helsinki and our new offices in Boston, Berlin and Sydney.

Unacast is the leading transparent and contextualized location data platform. We empower companies to make smarter decisions and build better products by providing the most accurate understanding of human activity in the physical world through the Real World Graph®. We believe that democratizing access to data is the currency of innovation, and we're on a mission to fix inaccurate and unverified location data to deliver unparalleled transparency and accuracy to our partners. Unacast is based out of NYC. Co-founders Thomas Walle and Kjartan Slette were also part of the founding team behind TIDAL, the music streaming company acquired by Jay-Z. Unacast has been awarded multiple awards for its platform, campaigns and company growth and culture.

Persado’s cognitive content platform is a smart system that combines natural language processing and machine learning technologies to machine generate the precise words, phrases and images that can inspire any given audience to act, every time. Persado’s cognitive content outperforms man-made messages 100%* of the time.

Stardog, the leading Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform, turns data into knowledge to power more effective digital transformations. Industry leaders including Morgan Stanley, Bosch, and NASA use Stardog to create a flexible data layer that can support countless applications. Stardog is a privately held, venture-backed company headquartered in Arlington, VA. For more information, please visit stardog.com.