Best Telecom Operators Companies in Israel
The 44 best Telecom Operators companies in Israel in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Unlimited.
Our analysis of 50 Telecom Operators companies
$110.6b in tracked funding; 98% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Telecom Operators companies in Israel
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | App-install YoY | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Unlimited Fiber optic internet services provider | $92M | 77 mo ago | Acquired | Yossi Haver CEO | 2016 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Chromatis Networks Selective wave division multiplexing for metro optical networking systems | $50M | — | Deadpooled | Orni Petruschka Co-Founder | 1998 | — | — | — |
| 3 | PenteNetworks Provider of internet and wireless telecommunication infrastructures services | $15M | 26 mo ago | Series A | Jonathan Schwartz Founder & CTO | 2016 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Whole Optics Optical switch technology | $5M | 255 mo ago | Deadpooled | Eli BenUliel Founder & CEO | 2000 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Keepgo Mobile operator for international travelers | $1M | 150 mo ago | Seed | Guy Zbarsky Co-Founder | 2009 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Spikko Mobile app providing multiple numbers on the same device | $1M | 128 mo ago | Seed | Shai Gilboa Founder & CEO | 2008 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Elsight Provider of secure & uninterrupted connectivity solutions for unmanned and autonomous systems | $600K | 12 mo ago | Public | Roee Kashi Co-Founder & CTO | 2009 | — | — | 1 job opening · 1 partnership |
| 8 | Partner Communications Telecommunications provider in Israel. | — | 79 mo ago | Acquired | — | 1997 | — | — | — |
Top 12 Telecom Operators companies in Israel
#1
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
#2
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
#3
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
#4
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.
#5
Deadpooled · Yokneam Illit, Northern District · founded 2000$5Mraised▾
WholeOptics is a microelectronic company developing optical technology for optical broadband communications. Its main product, optical switch which is based on Band-gap engineering and on semiconductor processing. The switch has high speed switching capacity which suits various communication applications such as IMAP, terabit routers and high speed storage. Eli Ben-Uliel was the founder & CEO.
- May 2005Series B$5M
#6
Seed · Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv District · founded 2009 · 16 employees$1.3Mraised▾
Keepgo offers international prepaid internet, SIM card and pocket WiFi hotspot for Italy, France, Spain, Germany, China and other countries in Europe, Asia, America. It offers lifetime data sim card and lifetime mobile wifi hotspot. Its customers are GPS Global Solutions, National Geographic channel, Sony Corporation, Portable Uplink Solutions, and Norton Rose Fullbright among others.
- Feb 2014Seed$1.3M
#7
Seed · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv · founded 2008 · 13 employees$1Mraised▾
Spikko is a global telecommunication platform, which provides users to get several phone numbers on one device without using multiple devices. Spikko enables small business users to become global by purchasing numbers from 60 countries (for as low as $4/ month) and calling around 200 countries around the world. In many virtual Spikko lines, SMS capabilities are also available Spikko’s services include roaming solutions for travelers, businesses, and expats. Solution also includes an identity management mechanism to allow users to control the called id.
- Dec 2015Seed$1M
#8
Acquired · Rosh Haayin, Center District · founded 1997 · 5670 employees—raised▾
Partner offers mobile cellular telecommunication services, fixed-line telecommunication services, international telecommunication services, internet services, transmission, data communications, and PRI. The company operates through two brand names Orange and 012 Smile. The company also has a strategic agreement for network sharing with HOT Mobile. Haim Romano is the CEO of the company
#9
Acquired · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv · founded 1984 · 5598 employees—raised▾
Bezeq offers telecommunication services ranging from fixed line, mobile, high speed internet, transmission and pay TV.Its fixed line domestic communications provide infrastructure, transmission, billing, leasing space, and related services for other communications operators. The company also has a subsidiary that offers submarine telecommunication cable link.
#10
Public · Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv District · founded 1999—raised▾
Provider of ISP and ILD services
#11
Acquired · Petah Tikva, Central District · founded 1961 · 175 employees—raised▾
ECI Telecom started as a provider of advanced optical transport products. Later it has shift focus to SDN/NFV technologies. It provides an ELASTIC network solutions to service providers, utilities and data center/cloud providers. ECI’s equipment serves as the platform for key applications including business services, voice, video and wireless backhaul. They also offer professional services- consultancy, design and build, Maintenance service packages to ensure business continuity and end to end program solutions. Swarth group (PE firm owned by Shaul Shani) along with Ashmore Investment Management acquired the company for $1.2B in 2007 and took it private. Later in 2014, Swath bought out Ashmore share for $200M. Swarth group doesn't have any web presence.
#12
Public · Jerusalem, Jerusalem District · founded 1992 · 5 employees—raised▾
Internet Gold through its subsidiaries provides telecommunication services in Israel. It holds 64.78% interest in BCOM through which it holds a controlling interest in Bezeq (largest telecommunication operator in Israel). It currently has five subsidiaries providing services in fixed-line telephony, mobile telephony, broadband, pay TV, and call center solutions.
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
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Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
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
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.