MentionFox lists 59 Telecom and wireless companies. Of them, 25 are Y Combinator companies (the newest batch here is Summer 2026, with 1); 25 filed a Form D notice with the SEC; 9 won an SBIR or STTR award. The median SBIR or STTR award in the table is $1.8M, across 8 awards.
By year
- 2026: 27 companies (2 Y Combinator, 24 Form D filers, 1 SBIR/STTR winner); median amount sold $1.1M across 23 Form D notices
Telecom and wireless startups from other years
Companies from before 2020, or from a year with fewer than 15 of them. Every other year has its own full list, linked above.
| Company | What it does | Date | Amount | Round / stage | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gugli Corp (funding history) | Filed Dec 31, 2025 | $499,995 | SEC Form D | ||
| Mucommune LLC | In vivo engineering of multifaceted b7h3.car-t cells for cellular immunotherapy of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma - project summary… | Award starts Sep 16, 2025 | $2.3M | SBIR | Federal award record |
| Advanced Systems & Technologies Inc | Ii: sensor-array broadband express-rate wavefront sensor (saber wfs) | Award starts Aug 15, 2025 | $1.8M | SBIR | Federal award record |
| Heliospace Corporation | Contract # 80nssc25c0066, title: 6 meter antenna and boom system for cubesats | Award starts Jul 7, 2025 | $848,675 | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Tiami Networks, Inc. | Tiami networks, inc | Award starts Apr 28, 2025 | $1.9M | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Torrey Pines Logic, Inc. | Small business innovation research (sbir) phase ii, topic a244-010, non-RF transceiver alternative communicator (nrf-tac). | Award starts Apr 28, 2025 | $1.9M | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Cornerstone Research Group Inc | Cornerstone research group, inc sbir phase ii sequential multi-spectrum combat identification target silhouette (mcits) allow target… | Award starts Apr 14, 2025 | $2M | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Pinch | AI Voice Translation for live conversations or media | Winter 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Nanohmics Inc | /sttr phase ii r&d conformal and compact tri-band antenna | Award starts Nov 7, 2024 | $1.4M | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Cesiumastro Inc | Radio ranging firmware modifications for starling extended mission | Award starts Oct 22, 2024 | $646,702 | SBIR Phase III | Federal award record |
| AveryIQ | AI Copilot for Property Managers and Landlords | Winter 2024 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Salvy | Mobile carrier for businesses in Brazil | Winter 2024 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Aurelian | Automating non-emergency calls for 911 centers | Summer 2022 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Devyce | The global mobile network for business | Summer 2022 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Sytex | Project management platform for Field Infrastructure. | Summer 2022 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Rownd | Fully autonomous defense solutions for the global edge. | Winter 2022 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| fluke | fluke is a full-digital mobile operator in Brazil | Summer 2021 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Siglo | Home Internet for urban Latin America | Summer 2021 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Sitenna | Compound B2B SaaS for modern infrastructure to deploy and manage sites | Summer 2021 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| gaiia | all-in-one operating system (OS) for telcos | Winter 2021 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Gigs | The OS for Embedded Telecom | Winter 2021 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Somos | Internet for the urban developing world. | Winter 2021 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Ready | Collaborative platform for optimizing regulated utilities such as… | Summer 2020 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Ukama | Empowering anyone to build cellular network | Summer 2020 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Farcast | We build advanced satcom user terminals | Winter 2020 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Autodial prev Qwest | Skip Busy Phone Lines | Winter 2019 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Community Phone Company | The phone that gives families peace of mind about aging parents | Winter 2019 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Tizeti | ISP for Africa | Winter 2017 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Wifi Dabba, Inc. | Decentralised broadband connectivity. | Winter 2017 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Reach | Long range, wireless energy distribution that scales | Summer 2015 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Double Robotics | Telepresence robots | Summer 2012 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Per Vices | Building Mission Critical Software Defined Radio products. | Winter 2012 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing |
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