67 Best Communication Hardware Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Communication Hardware Startups

We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.

There are 3,480 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $12.1b. The average funding per company in this subset is $181.3m.

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9

Funding Rounds

$570.0m

Money raised

Dialpad is a San Francisco-headquartered business communications platform company.

1

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$1.5m

Money raised

Developer of low-latency and high-throughput broadband networks for AR/VR, IoT, robotics, and other emerging technologies.

4

Funding Rounds

$16.5m

Money raised

DeepSig is an early-stage startup that develops deep learning software to reinvent wireless communications.

4

Funding Rounds

$230.0m

Money raised

Humane develops and commercializes consumer hardware, software, and services.

6

Funding Rounds

$1.7b

Money raised

Discord is an American company that offers users a free messenger with support for IP telephony and video conferencing. About 56 million people use the Discord messenger every month, and its total audience exceeds 270 million users.

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3

Funding Rounds

$900.0k

Money raised

Pitney Bowes is a Stamford, Connecticut-based company founded in 1920 by Walter Bowes.

6

Funding Rounds

$722.0m

Money raised

Cerebras is an AI company building computer systems designed to accelerate AI workflows.

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4

Funding Rounds

$60.6m

Money raised

Kumu Networks provides a proprietary self-interference cancellation technology that increases the efficiency of wireless networks.

11

Funding Rounds

$46.4m

Money raised

Cropin, also known as Cropin Technology solutions, is a company that offers an intelligent and self-evolving system that delivers farming solutions to the agricultural sector.

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4

Funding Rounds

$49.0m

Money raised

Siklu is a San Jose, California and Petah Tikva-based telecommunications company developing multi-gigabit wireless fiber connectivity systems for urban, suburban, and rural areas.

3

Funding Rounds

$764.7m

Money raised

Bitmain is a Beijing-based multinational semiconductor company, founded in 2013, that manufactures products for blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) applications.

3

Funding Rounds

$2.3m

Money raised

A web and API platform that provides Bitcoin and Altcoin conversion.

2

Funding Rounds

$110.0m

Money raised

Clubhouse is a San Francisco-based social app offering a space for casual, drop-in audio conversations with friends and other interesting people.

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2

Funding Rounds

$12.1m

Money raised

Sky and Space Global is an Australian nanosatellite company focused on IoT networks.

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10

Funding Rounds

$269.5m

Money raised

Rigetti Computing is a quantum computing company based in Berkeley, California.

6

Funding Rounds

$577.8m

Money raised

Helion Energy is a fusion power company aiming to build the world's first fusion power plant.

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9

Funding Rounds

$217.2m

Money raised

Density is a San Francisco-based company building a people-counting system to measure the number of people in or passing through a physical space such as a hallway, lobby, or conference hall.

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7

Funding Rounds

$81.3m

Money raised

Kepler Communications is a company that has a focus on satellite production and communication networks.

8

Funding Rounds

$390.0m

Money raised

Exabeam is a San Mateo, California-based data security analytics company offering cybersecurity and early cyber attack detection software.

Zayo Group offers bandwidth infrastructure services across various markets, delivering lit services and dark fiber products. It supports wireline and wireless customers, data centers, and government agencies with a robust network infrastructure. The company also provides carrier-neutral colocation facilities to enhance connectivity options.

5

Funding Rounds

$140.5m

Money raised

Pasqal is a company building programmable quantum simulators and quantum computers made of 2D and 3D arrays of neutral atoms.

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4

Funding Rounds

$1.5m

Money raised

Aura Vision is an AI computer vision company for generating insights into shop floors. Aura Vision uses existing security cameras in stores to provide customer demographics and behavior data.

4

Funding Rounds

$6.7m

Money raised

Provider of 4G and 5G mobile network solutions.

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6

Funding Rounds

$22.0m

Money raised

GigSky is a Palo Alto, California-based provider of SIM-card and eSIM based data services for travelers and provider of cloud-based management tools for network devices and IoT devices.

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2

Funding Rounds

$8.8m

Money raised

Parallel Wireless provides cellular radio access network solutions.

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4

Funding Rounds

$12.0m

Money raised

LotusFlare is a developer of digital engagement platforms intended to help companies acquire, engage, retain, and monetize users on digital channels.

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1

Funding Rounds

$50.0k

Money raised

HYPRES is a developer of superconducting microelectronics for defense, wireless, and optical network industries.

5

Funding Rounds

$83.0m

Money raised

Kajeet, the industry leader for safe, mobile student Internet connectivity outside the classroom, helps students succeed in school.

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5

Funding Rounds

$286.0m

Money raised

Quora is a question-and-answer website founded in 2010 by Adam D'Angelo and Charlie Cheever.

3

Funding Rounds

$37.1m

Money raised

Mimosa Networks is a Santa Clara, California-based communications systems company developing broadband wireless communication and connection systems.

8

Funding Rounds

$431.5m

Money raised

Coursera is an online education technology company founded in 2012 by Daphne Koller.

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2

Funding Rounds

$146.0m

Money raised

Unifonic is a Saudi-based cloud communication startup.

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6

Funding Rounds

$168.0m

Money raised

Developer of fully interactive advanced lab simulations designed to create scalable science training software. The company's simulations offer a virtual laboratory based on mathematical algorithms that support open-ended investigations along with molecular three-dimension animations, quiz questions, and background theory.

2

Funding Rounds

$2.0m

Money raised

Plivo is a cloud-based communications platform as a service (CPaaS) company headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company allows software developers to integrate phone calls, text messages, and other communication functions into their applications using its web service APIs.

1

Funding Rounds

$132.0m

Money raised

Gowin Semiconductor Corp. is a manfucaturer of programmable logic devices based in Shanghai.

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7

Funding Rounds

$2.2b

Money raised

Anduril builds AI platforms to protect troops, fight wildfires, perform search & rescue missions, and provide border surveillance. It was founded in 2017 and is located in Irvine, California.

2

Funding Rounds

$4.2m

Money raised

Footprint is an all-in-one analysis platform to visualize your discoveries in blockchain data

5

Funding Rounds

$19.7m

Money raised

Khan Academy is a nonprofit online educational organization that was founded in 2008.

3

Funding Rounds

$5.5m

Money raised

Tupl Inc. is a Bellevue, Washington-based artificial intelligence and software company developing automation utilities for various industries, including telecommunications, agriculture, manufacturing, and health.

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2

Funding Rounds

$3.4m

Money raised

Chai Biotechnologies (also known as Chai and Chai Bio) is a biotechnology company building real-time PCR, qPCR and devices that detect pathogens, speciate meat and genotype DNA.

7

Funding Rounds

$3.3m

Money raised

NanoSonic Inc. is a Pembroke, VA-based advanced materials company specializing in thermal management solutions (such as thermal arrays) and related safety equipment

7

Funding Rounds

$207.3m

Money raised

Replit is a San Francisco-based IDE and software development environment company making a browser application platform for coding in over fifty programming languages.

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5

Funding Rounds

$8.4m

Money raised

Speech recognition software that provides voice-enabled experiences for kids of all ages, accents, and dialects while prioritizing privacy.

6

Funding Rounds

$30.0m

Money raised

Rain AI is a company developing a new AI compute platform by co-designing every layer of the AI stack.

5

Funding Rounds

$234.6m

Money raised

Tenstorrent is a Canadian artificial intelligence and machine learning technology company specializing in AI architectures focused on scalable deep learning and adaptability.

7

Funding Rounds

$218.1m

Money raised

SendBird is a developer of a messaging API for mobile applications and websites.

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7

Funding Rounds

$314.2m

Money raised

HawkEye 360 is a Herndon, Virginia-based data analytics company developing radio frequency mapping technologies for use in space.

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2

Funding Rounds

$25.5m

Money raised

Itential is an Atlanta-based network company developing intelligent network automation tools for multi-domain networks.

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5

Funding Rounds

$41.6m

Money raised

SignalWire is a developer of an API and products platform.

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2

Funding Rounds

$2.5m

Money raised

Tanaza is a Milan-based software company developing a cloud platform for IT professionals to manage Wi-Fi networks.

3

Funding Rounds

$2.8m

Money raised

HackerNoon is a free online technology blog.

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3

Funding Rounds

$158.2m

Money raised

Cohere Technologies is a software-based spectrum multiplier solution provider.

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11

Funding Rounds

$185.7m

Money raised

D-Wave Systems is a Canadian company that designs and manufactures quantum computing and superconducting electronics, and AI software.

5

Funding Rounds

$32.0m

Money raised

Singularity University is a startup accelerator focusing on commercializing technologies developed in research facilities.

4

Funding Rounds

$4.5m

Money raised

Brave is an open source web browser founded in 2015 by Brendan Eich.

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6

Funding Rounds

$83.3m

Money raised

BenchSci is a biotechnology company with a machine learning platform for researching biological compounds. It was founded in 2015 and is located in Toronto, Canada.

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3

Funding Rounds

$16.8k

Money raised

Undagrid develops and provides a wide area networking technology with object tracking and tracing functionality for the logistics, maritime, and aviation sectors.

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7

Funding Rounds

$240.0m

Money raised

Intercom is a technology company developing and providing a communications platform for web and mobile businesses to interact with customers.

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6

Funding Rounds

$613.0m

Money raised

Pensando Systems is a company developing edge computing and cloud computing services for enterprises and cloud providers.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.0m

Money raised

Cypherock is building a hardware wallet that does not require a seed phrase.

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6

Funding Rounds

$23.7m

Money raised

Symbl is an API platform for businesses looking to deploy conversational intelligence.

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6

Funding Rounds

$80.5m

Money raised

Hologram is a company with a platform for building Internet of Things type products

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4

Funding Rounds

$13.3m

Money raised

Galgus is a Camas, Seville-based wireless and Wi-Fi technology company developing systems used by OEMs and system integrators for Wi-Fi networks.

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3

Funding Rounds

$2.8m

Money raised

First Orion is a Little Rock, Arkansas-based software company offering identity verification for telecommunication companies and protection from scam calls.

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6

Funding Rounds

$55.9m

Money raised

5G satellite telecom operator for global IoT connectivity.

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5

Funding Rounds

$76.0m

Money raised

Simplilearn is an educational technology company with a focus on courses for digital skills.

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1

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$500.0k

Money raised

Univerbal provides a language-learning app with a chatbot AI that simulates the experience of conversing with a foreign speaker.

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