Cubic Telecom - Location: Ireland
- Funding: Angel Round, 7M CDN
- CEO: Pat Phelan
Cubic Telecom is a mobile service provider looking to become a fully global mobile startup by blanketing the globe with their signal. The company aims to drastically reduce international mobile roaming and call charges, which will lead to cheaper prices for overseas calls. They will accomplish this goal by utilizing existing phone network resources without the need of downloads or new phone configurations.
Founder Pat Phelan a well known communications blogger "wants a world in which anyone can pick up their mobile phone wherever they are and call anyone in any country for as long as they like without worrying about the price." Learn more about Cubic Telecom |
Yap - Location: Charlotte, NC
- Funding: Series A, $2M
- CEO: Igor Jablokov
Yap provides voice-to-text translation services for mobile phones. Users can say anything they like and Yap will send a text copy to anyone of their contacts. The service is completely automated so you won't have intermediary Yap employees listening to your messages, typing them and then sending them out.
They also have a text messaging application call Yap9 that allows you to keep in touch with friends, family, and co-workers. Users can also use the application to instantly query mobile web services just by talking. They can search Google, Wikipedia, Yahoo, and YouTube, or interact with Facebook without using their phones' miniature keyboards. Learn more about Yap |
Trutap - Location: Cambridge, England
- Funding: Angel Round and Series A-B, $14.5M total
- CEO: Doug Richard
Trutap is a mobile social-networking application that enables users to stay connected with offline and online friends regardless of where they are in the world. The application also claims to work with all social networks, IM clients, network carriers and mobile phone devices.
Trutap is accessible through a downloadable mobile application and their web browser experience synchronizes all Trutap messages, conversations and contacts. The application lets users communicate with individuals or groups via text, picture and instant messaging. The service also enables users to link to their social networks, upload pictures and update their blogs. Learn more about Trutap |
Ceedo - Location: Israel
- CEO: Dror Sofer
Ceedo Technologies is a virtualization software company headquartered in Israel. Its patent pending approach to virtualizing the Windows' desktop environment enables users to carry their PC-based work environment on portable devices such as USB flash drives, pocket hard drives, network drives and even mobile phones.
Ceedo works well with the mobile device market. This is because it does not virtualize operating systems, which lets it load and operate more quickly while taking less drive space. Ceedo Mobile technology lets users connect their favorite mobile device to a PC without requiring installation or configuration. Learn more about Ceedo |
Loudtalks - Location: St Petersburg, Russia
- CEO: Alexey Gavrilov
Loudtalks is a free downloadable push-to-talk messaging application. It supports real time private or group voice communication in the walkie talkie style. Loudtalks is based on the peer-to-peer architecture and capable to work behind most firewalls and NATs. The software is lightweight (installer is less than 1 Mb) and unobtrusive. Normally it runs in the background and can be activated with hotkey without switching the focus or popping up the application window. The advantages of Loudtalks over existing messaging systems include speed, asynchronous style and voice messaging. Learn more about Loudtalks |
