Best Mobile Companies in Virginia, United States
The 35 best Mobile companies in Virginia, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Mobile Posse.
Our analysis of 77 Mobile companies
$13.3b in tracked funding; 89% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2024.
Ranked: Best Mobile companies in Virginia
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mobile Posse Curated stories and stunning photography celebrating everyday lifestyle for curious people | $27M | 170 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2005 | Node.jsVideoJSVarnish+25 | — | — |
| 2 | AppTap Platform offering mobile ad network solution | $13M | 144 mo ago | Acquired | Blake Fayling Managing Director | 2005 | BootstrapApache HTTP ServerAmazon Web Services+7 | — | — |
| 3 | Numeracle Provider of networking and call management solutions | $7M | 33 mo ago | Series A | Rebekah Johnson Founder and CEO | 2017 | WebflowSalesforceGSAP+20 | 22 patents Secure telephone call authentication and identity verification using blockchain and attribute data | — |
| 4 | Raincrow Studios Developer of story-driven augmented reality mobile games | $3M | 91 mo ago | Seed | — | 2011 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Castle Hill Casino Game Developers | $200K | 156 mo ago | Deadpooled | John Taylor Founder & CEO | 2013 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Quokka Provider of mobile security, mobile application security testing platform, and mobile app vetting solution | — | 55 mo ago | Seed | — | 2011 | WordPressMySQLPHP+29 | — | — |
| 7 | 911HelpSMS SOS signaling app | — | — | Unfunded | Minh Tran Founder | 2014 | — | — | — |
| 8 | AddyMate Location-based discovery & messaging app | — | — | Deadpooled | Rajdeep Junnarkar Founder | 2015 | — | — | — |
Top 6 Mobile companies in Virginia
#1
Series A · Mclean, Virginia · founded 2017 · 13 employees$6.8Mraised▾
Provider of networking and call management solutions. The company offers solutions for identity verification, number reputation, calling technologies, call authentication, call compliancy and more. It also provides VoIP services.
- Dec 2023Series A$6.8M
#2
Acquired · Mclean, Virginia · founded 2005 · 19 employees$26.5Mraised▾
Curated stories and stunning photography celebrating everyday lifestyle for curious people. This company creates and showcases captivating stories and galleries. They focus on inspiring and engaging audiences through diverse content, specializing in short stories and galleries designed for maximum engagement and ease of consumption. The company believes in the power of storytelling to connect, educate, and entertain. They leverage technology and automation to streamline delivery, while maintaining high quality content across platforms. They are experts in monetization, working with sales teams to maximize revenue and leveraging programmatic toolsets. They collaborate with content partners and brands to generate exposure and deliver targeted content. They prioritize cultivating relationships with publishers to access exclusive content, providing speed and flexibility to craft innovative experiences. Their content includes fashion trends, sneaker culture, travel destinations, film reviews, regional dishes, and cultural events.
- Jun 2012Series C$5M
- Dec 2007Series B$10M
- Dec 2007Series B$10M
- Apr 2007Series A$1.5M
#3
Acquired · Reston, Virginia · founded 2005 · 18 employees$12.7Mraised▾
Platform offering mobile ad network solution. It is an app discovery and advertising network, combining contextual and behavioral targeting to deliver the right app to the consumer. App developers partner with AppTap to distribute their apps to their target audience. Mobile publishers and carriers use AppTap to monetize their inventory and engage their users.
- Aug 2014Series A$2M
- Jan 2014Series A$1.5M
- Jan 2012Series A$4M
- Dec 2011Series A$2.7M
#4
Seed · Harrisonburg, Virginia · founded 2011 · 5 employees$2.6Mraised▾
Raincrow Studios develops story-driven augmented reality mobile games. It has developed multiple AR-driven mobile games including "Covens", "Vampire Tribunals", "Rudge", etc. Its game Covens is a real-world game board played with witches, wicked spirits, good spirits, etc.
- Jan 2019Seed$2.6M
#5
Deadpooled · Charlottesville, Virginia · founded 2013$200Kraised▾
Founded in 2013, Castle Hill Holdings is a game development studio based in Virginia, US. The company focuses on the development casino games and slot machines and has a portfolio of four games as on February, 2016. The company's best known games include 'Cash Hooper' - a music based slot machine game and 'Quack Tastic' - a multiplayer spinning game for slot machines.
- Sep 2013Seed$200K
#6
Seed · Mclean, Virginia · founded 2011 · 24 employees—raised▾
Provider of mobile security, mobile application security testing platform, and mobile app vetting solution. It delivers dynamic, actionable intelligence for fleet-wide protection applications, It offers a testing platform for developers who build, use, and manage mobile applications, and mobile app vetting for curated and enterprise-managed app stores.
- Feb 2022Seed—
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