Ukama (YC S20) — Empowering anyone to build cellular network
Ukama appears in Y Combinator's company directory in the Summer 2020 batch, listed 2020-09-10. Empowering anyone to build cellular network.
Ukama is a Y Combinator company in the Summer 2020 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Empowering anyone to build cellular network. The founder listed is Kashif Ali (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, September 10, 2020).
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Build and operate sustainable last-mile mobile networks with Ukama hardware, antennas, RAN, mobile core, SIMs, billing, monitoring and support.
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Kashif Ali
Founder
Kashif Ali (Founder & CEO) prior to starting Ukama co-founded Endaga and was acquired by Facebook in 2015. At Facebook he founded and led the OpenCellular project from inception to production deployments with multiple tier-1 operators around the world. He also did his postdoctoral work at UC Berkeley in rural connectivity and has Ph.D. from Queen’s University in Canada.
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