Best Telecom Companies in Tel Aviv, Israel
The 57 best Telecom companies in Tel Aviv, Israel in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Cato Networks.
Our analysis of 100 Telecom companies
$83.4b in tracked funding; 91% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Telecom companies in Tel Aviv
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cato Networks 🦄 Provider of converged network security solutions with threat prevention capabilities 89Funding top 13%Tech top 20%Market top 26%Moat top 26% All 12 signals ▾Fundingtop 13% Techtop 20% Markettop 26% Moattop 26% Globaltop 29% Talenttop 30% Innovationtop 36% Producttop 40% Newstop 42% Growthtop 45% AItop 45% Customersbottom 44% Funding: Raised $773M across 9 rounds · 9 rounds over 11 yrs (0.8/yr) Tech: 57 technologies across 7/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Alb, Amazon Cloudfront rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 89/100 | $773M | 10 mo ago | 800 | Gur Shatz Co-Founder | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+24 | — | — |
| 2 | Unlimited Fiber optic internet services provider | $92M | 75 mo ago | 37 | Yossi Haver CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+19 | — | — |
| 3 | Expand Networks WAN Optimization Solutions | $70M | 214 mo ago | — | Elie Barr President And Ceo | Framer SitesReactCloudflare+7 | 6 patents Decentralized network traffic signaling protocols and adaptive packet compression for telecom systems. | — |
| 4 | P-Cube Traffic analysis and control software solutions provider | $65M | 289 mo ago | — | Giora Yaron Co-Founder | — | 11 patents High‑performance network packet processing and traffic analysis | — |
| 5 | Cellwize Self Organizing Network solution provider | $56M | 56 mo ago | 200 | — | — | — | — |
| 6 | Chromatis Networks Selective wave division multiplexing for metro optical networking systems | $50M | — | — | Orni Petruschka Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 7 | Siklu Provider of wireless millimeter wave bands for telecom industry | $49M | 42 mo ago | 96 | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | Vasona Networks Solutions for mobile efficiency at the edge | $36M | 123 mo ago | 65 | — | — | 23 patents Optimizing wireless network bandwidth, congestion, and QoS for encrypted streaming media. | — |
| 9 | PacketLight Networks WDM and OTN products and solutions provider | $29M | 263 mo ago | 51 | Koby Reshef CEO | JoomlaPHPBootstrap+19 | 5 patents Optical transport networks and network address assignment for SONET over fiber. | 1 launch · 1 partnership |
| 10 | Axerra Circuit emulation and service emulation solutions over packet access | $27M | 229 mo ago | 60 | Hans Amell CEO | — | — | — |
| 11 | Wefi Wifi Network Discovery Tool - Mobile Data Analytics | $17M | 132 mo ago | 44 | Yossi Vardi Co-Founder | Squarespace CommerceSquarespaceStimulus+11 | 23 patents Dynamic selection and offloading of mobile wireless networks with automated connection management | — |
| 12 | Telrad 4G/LTE Broadband Wireless Solutions Provider | $17M | 252 mo ago | 294 | Uri Dotan CEO | WordPressZohoMySQL+35 | — | — |
| 13 | PenteNetworks Provider of internet and wireless telecommunication infrastructures services | $15M | 25 mo ago | 36 | Jonathan Schwartz Founder & CTO | — | — | — |
| 14 | InfoGin Platform to enable optimized browsing experience from any device | $15M | 213 mo ago | 51 | — | — | 21 patents Adaptive web content rendering and formatting for diverse mobile and device platforms | — |
| 15 | Meta Networks Zero-trust Network as a service provider | $10M | 99 mo ago | 30 | Alon Horowitz Co-Founder & Vp R&D | — | — | — |
| 16 | Convergin Real-time service brokering solutions for CSP | $10M | 212 mo ago | — | Rich Patrick Owner | — | 2 patents Unified multi-domain communication services with cross-network identity management | — |
| 17 | cVidya Big Data Analytics solutions for communications and digital service providers | $5M | 206 mo ago | 300 | — | — | — | — |
| 18 | Mobile Max Unified communication and fixed mobile convergence solutions provider | $5M | 244 mo ago | — | Rohit Gahalyan Founder | — | — | — |
| 19 | Silent Communication Manufacturer of agricultural implements and equipment | $2M | 224 mo ago | 11 | — | — | — | — |
| 20 | Spikko Mobile app providing multiple numbers on the same device | $1M | 126 mo ago | 13 | Shai Gilboa Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 21 | Elsight Provider of secure & uninterrupted connectivity solutions for unmanned and autonomous systems | $600K | 11 mo ago | 29 | Roee Kashi Co-Founder & CTO | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+33 | — | 1 job opening · 1 partnership |
| 22 | Ceragon Provider of wireless connectivity platforms, solutions, and related managed services | $582K | 68 mo ago | 34 | Doron Arazi CEO | HubSpot CMS HubMicrosoft ClarityLinkedin Insight Tag+19 | — | 1 launch |
| 23 | CrowdX Crowdsourced Mobile Performance Analytics | $500K | 153 mo ago | 6 | Ori Goshen Co-Founder & VP R&D at Crowdx | — | — | — |
Top 12 Telecom companies in Tel Aviv
#1
Series G · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv · founded 2015 · 800 employees$773Mraised▾
Provider of converged network security solutions with threat prevention capabilities. The company delivers threat prevention, data protection, and incident detection through its platform. It offers connectivity to cloud resources for sites and users. The platform provides management and integration for configuration, analysis, and troubleshooting.
- Sep 2025Series G$50M
- Jun 2025Series G$359M
- Sep 2023Series G$238M
- Oct 2021Series F$200M
#2
Public · Or Yehuda, Tel Aviv · founded 2009 · 29 employees$599.9Kraised▾
Provider of secure & uninterrupted connectivity solutions for unmanned and autonomous systems. It specializing in advanced connectivity solutions for unmanned and autonomous systems, including drones, ground vehicles, and maritime platforms.
- Jul 2025Post IPO$39.1M
- Apr 2025Post IPO$4.3M
- Jan 2023Convertible Debt$599.9K
- Dec 2020Post IPO$8.3M
#3
Series A · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv · founded 2016 · 36 employees$15Mraised▾
Provider of internet and wireless telecommunication infrastructures services
- Jun 2024Series A—
- Sep 2022Series A$10M
#4
Acquired · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv · founded 2008 · 96 employees$49Mraised▾
Provider of wireless millimeter wave bands for telecom industry. It is used in delivering multi-gigabit throughput over millimeter waves in short-range wireless point-to-point links. Its applications include mobile backhaul, wi-fi backhaul, gigabit to the home, campus connectivity, and business broadband.
- Jan 2023Grant (prize money)$406K
- Nov 2020Grant (prize money)$581.6K
- May 2020Grant (prize money)$55.5K
- Dec 2019Grant (prize money)$55.1K
#5
Acquired · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv · founded 2012 · 200 employees$56Mraised▾
Self Organizing Network solution provider. It allows mobile networks to react to real-time changes and match capacity, coverage, and quality with evolving usage patterns. Its elastic-SON platform utilizes big data processing to transform volatile networks into user-centric and over-performing mobile networks across multiple vendors and wireless technologies. It offers mobile operators in-depth insights into network information to differentiate their offerings and provide personalized user experience targeting areas of high-value density.
- Oct 2021Series B—
- Nov 2020Series B$32M
- May 2019Series A—
- Dec 2018Series A—
#6
Acquired · Herzliya, Tel Aviv · founded 2016 · 37 employees$91.7Mraised▾
Unlimited is an internet service provider which caters to residential and business customers in Israel. It offers fiber-optic broadband internet access (with data speeds up to 1 Gbps), multiple speed based internet plans, installation, maintenance, and support services. It provides these services through its own network.
- Mar 2020Conventional Debt$91.7M
#7
Acqui-Hired · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv · founded 1998$70Mraised▾
Expand Networks is a provider of Wide Area Network (WAN) Optimization. Its solutions of “Virtual Proximity” solutions is used in supporting branch office server consolidation, server-based computing and virtualization technologies, as well as low-bandwidth, high-latency links. Acquired by Riverbed to enhance its WAN portfolio
#8
Acquired · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv · founded 1999$65Mraised▾
Provider of platform for the creation, provisioning and monitoring, of tiered value-add services. The company develops programmable IP service control platforms for broadband and mobile network operators. The company offers various solutions, such as usage analysis, traffic optimization, service security, tiering and access control, content charging and service enablement.
#9
Acqui-Hired · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv · founded 2010 · 65 employees$36.4Mraised▾
Vasona Networks develops network performance and edge computing software for mobile operators that addresses mobile network data traffic. Its product offerings include SmartAIR1000- an edge application controller and SmartVision- software suite for analysis of RAN behavior and the effect on mobile customer experiences. Claims that its technology is based on comprehensive perspective on all data activity within every cell at any time. The company has been acquired by ZephyrTel which is an ESW Capital company, in 2018.
- Apr 2016Series C$14.6M
- Mar 2013Series B$12M
- May 2011Series A$9.8M
#10
Deadpooled · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv · founded 1998$50Mraised▾
Chromatis Networks is a provider of metro optical networking systems. Its product Metropolis(TM) systems is useful in integrating data (packet), voice (circuit) and video services together on metropolitan networks and combine this traffic onto a wave division multiplexing (WDM) system. The acquisition was expected to bring bandwidth expansion power to Lucent but Chromatis was shut down by Lucent, quoting that the company’s focus did not fit Lucent’s new strategy to serve large telephone companies. Raised a total funding of more than $50 million in funding from leading venture capitalists including Crosspoint, ComVentures, Jerusalem Venture Partners, Soros Private Equity, Chase Capital, Lucent Venture Partners, and Eucalyptus Ventures.
#11
Acquired · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv · founded 1999 · 60 employees$27.4Mraised▾
Based in Israel, Axerra's pseudowire (PW) solutions enable mobile operators, cable MSOs, competitive access providers, and incumbent carriers to extend IP and legacy voice and data services in native format over Ethernet, IP, and MPLS networks.This helps the clients by greater operational efficiency and a smooth migration strategy to a single converged network. Axerra's solutions enable all service providers to benefit from pseudowires by converting any access network (carrier ethernet, broadband wireless including WiMAX, cable HFC, xDSL, xPON, etc.) into a multiservice alternative to TDM access.It has offices in the US, Russia and Poland.
- 2007PE$1.1M
- Sep 2005Series C$16.2M
- Sep 2002Series B$10M
#12
Series B · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv · founded 2000 · 51 employees$29Mraised▾
PacketLight provides WDM (wavelength division multiplexing) and OTN (optical transport network) products and solutions to transport data, storage, voice and video applications, over dark fiber and WDM networks. Its product portfolio include transponders, amplifiers, muxponders, ROADM and encryptors. It also provides customized solutions for specific needs of various markets including data centers, multi-tenant buildings & campuses, interconnection of SAN (storage area network) and LAN (local area network) over remote metro sites, etc. It raised a funding round in August 2004, participated by Yehuda and Zohar Zisapel, RAD Ventures along with existing investors Pitango Venture Capital. It became part of the RAD-Bynetgroupter subsequent to this round.
- Aug 2004Series B—
- Nov 2000Series A$18M
- Jul 2000Seed$11M
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How research on 5G / 6G Networks is moving in Israel
A read on the academic research around 5G / 6G Networks — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 354 Israel-affiliated papers.
- Technion – Israel Institute of Technology137
- Weizmann Institute of Science68
- Ben-Gurion University of the Negev67
- Bar-Ilan University49
- Tel Aviv University25
- Beamforming20→66
- Electronic engineering3→17
- MIMO12→24
- Antenna (radio)1→8
- Wireless1→7
- Beamforming37→59
- Telecommunications1→9
- Directivity5→10
- Microphone array5→9
- MIMO15→18
- Beamforming6
- Computer network2
- Bandwidth (computing)2
- Adaptive beamformer2
- Microphone array2
Where 5g 6g is researched across Israel
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Common questions
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