Best Telecom Companies in Boston, United States
The 32 best Telecom companies in Boston, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: SevOne.
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$56.1b in tracked funding; 87% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Telecom companies in Boston
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founded | Founder | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ainaptt Manufacturer of cellular push-to-talk communication devices | — | — | Unfunded | 20 | — | — | — | — |
| 2 | ATLANTIC-ACM Provider of business consulting services | — | — | Unfunded | 13 13 → 24 (+85%) | 1991 | Judy Smith Founder & Chairperson | — | — |
| 3 | Centered Logic Network management solutions provider | — | — | Acqui-Hired | 3 | 2010 | Subramaniam Aiylam Founder | — | — |
| 4 | Comlinkdata Data solutions provider for telecommunications, now Opensignal, enabling smarter customer decisions | — | — | Acquired | 114 | 2010 | — | — | — |
| 5 | deep edge realty Deep Edge Realty develops location-focused interconnection ecosystems to drive cost reductions and… | — | — | Private | 7 | 2018 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Definition Networks Provider of mobile network infrastructure solutions enabling IoT and 5G connectivity worldwide | — | — | Deadpooled | — | 2013 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Forager Networks Secure, intelligent wireless connectivity platform for optimized device experience and privacy | — | — | Unfunded | — | 2012 | Philip Cootey Founder | — | — |
| 8 | GIG Provider of internet services for residential and commercial | — | — | Unfunded | 9 | 2015 | — | — | — |
Top 12 Telecom companies in Boston
#1
Series C · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2012 · 38 employees$65.1Mraised▾
Provider of network defense and firewall as a service solutions. The company delivers an integrated offering that empowers service providers to deploy security controls across network segments. This offering features a control plane designed for public and private cloud environments. It integrates curated network threat intelligence with next-generation firewall capabilities, delivered as a service with automated network security.
- Oct 2023Series C$24.1M
- Apr 2017Series C$41M
#2
Acquired · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2005 · 158 employees$203.5Mraised▾
SevOne provides a network performance management solution. It offers real-time monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance reporting solution to ensure application performance and reliability. The SevOne PAS includes different virtual and physical appliances each capable of monitoring 5,000 to 200,000 network elements and the SevOne Dedicated NetFlow Collector (Sevone DNC) that supports up to 1,000 NetFlow interfaces per appliance.
- Sep 2015Series C$50M
- Jan 2013Series C$150M
- Mar 2009Series B$2M
- Aug 2007Series A$1.5M
#3
Starry 🦄Acquired · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2014 · 642 employees$163Mraised▾
Provider of wireless broadband internet services. It is deploying gigabit-capable broadband to the home without bundles, data caps, or long-term contracts using wideband hybrid-fiber fixed wireless technology.
- Jul 2018Series C$100M
- Dec 2016Series B$30M
- Series A—
#4
Late Stage · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 1995 · 6 employees$108.1Mraised▾
Provider of communications services under the TOTALink brand. The company builds, owns and operates broadband networks and provides television cable, internet and telephone service to customers in partnership with affiliates of local electric and gas utilities.
#5
Series B · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 1999 · 156 employees$54.5Mraised▾
Developer of integrated suite for high-performance quality of service networking products. The company designs its products to control the quality of applications delivered over the Internet. It develops its products for enterprises and communications service providers.
#6
Acquired · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2015 · 24 employees$5.2Mraised▾
Brain4Net provides SDN and NFV solutions to service providers and enterprise sectors. The platform provides comprehensive network orchestration & control solution for multi-vendor network infrastructure. Its platform components include B4N SwitchOS- OpenFlow-agent for bare-metal switches and vSwitch for x86 platforms, B4N Controller- OpenFlow-based SDN controller that addresses the SDN adoption in service providers networks, and B4N Orchestrator- ensures a single point of topology and network services view. Its solutions include carrier ethernet transport, B4N service Platform for vCPE, and SD-WAN transport.
- Aug 2018Series A$2.5M
- Mar 2017Seed$1M
- Mar 2016Seed$1.8M
#7
Series A · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2014 · 2 employees$5.2Mraised▾
Campus SIMs provide mobile services for International Students studying in the U.S. where all plans are equipped with free international inbound calling, multilingual customer support including English, Spanish, Mandarin. Campus SIMs has partnered with various Universities including Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Purdue, Virginia Tech, University of South Carolina, Texas A&M University etc. Customers have to sign up either through App or on web site and subscribe for Plan by paying the appropriate amount through payment gateway.
- Apr 2016Series A$2.5M
- Feb 2016Conventional Debt$60.2K
- May 2015Seed$1.5M
- Apr 2014Seed$1.2M
#8
Series F · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2000 · 11 employees$15.6Mraised▾
Provider of cloud-based platform for digital customer engagement and service solutions. The platform enables businesses to deploy digital experiences, automate processes, and enhance customer interactions across various channels. It facilitates customer onboarding, digital brand launches, employee engagement, and digital assistance. The platform analyzes customer lifetime value to inform customer acquisition, retention, and marketing strategies.
- Aug 2008Series F—
- May 2006Series E$7M
- 2000PE$8.6M
#9
Acquired · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 1996$16.7Mraised▾
Network-based telephony systems
#10
Acquired · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2010 · 9 employees$1.2Mraised▾
netBlazr provides broadband services to business and residential use. For businesses it has wireless point-to-point circuits, dedicated circuits and internet services giving speeds upto 1Gbps. Provides unlimited data usage with speeds upto 40 Mbps on monthly rentals for residential use.
- Sep 2015Seed$300K
- Mar 2015Conventional Debt—
- Mar 2015Seed$675K
- Apr 2014Grant (prize money)$728K
#11
Deadpooled · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2009 · 11 employees$1.4Mraised▾
Infinetics provides a high performance network connection architecture that provides significantly better tradeoffs between bandwidth, latency, fault tolerance and cost called as Long Hop. Long Hop networks are Long Hop achieves this by combining patent-pending wiring methods with a simple high-performance, TCAM-efficient forwarding method well suited to the new generation of network switch hardware and SDN controllers supporting OpenFlow or proprietary southbound APIs.
- Dec 2012Series A$150K
- Nov 2011Series A$1.1M
- Jan 2010Seed$100K
#12
Public · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 1994 · 5643 employees—raised▾
Provider of wireless communications infrastructure. It is a provider of digital communications infrastructure, offering solutions and services to deploy and support wireless networks. The companys portfolio includes data centers, interconnectivity solutions, and distributed land for data center development.
Funding & investor landscape
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