Members of the Telecom Council’s Service Provider and Investor Forums meet quarterly to hear startup pitches and to discuss current trends. This quarter, we will introduce 7 – 9 pre-screened startups to the carrier, vendor, and telecom VC community. Dialogue before and after presentations, during breaks, and over lunch ensures that all participants have an opportunity to connect.
Interested to joining us? Register to be considered for an invitation.
About this Quarterly Meeting:
Our Telecom Council Service Provider and Investor Forum serves 3 main purposes:
- To connect carriers who are investing time, energy, and/or capital into telecom startups with the larger telecom-focused venture community – including vendor funds and VCs.
- To review pre-qualified telecom startups for new products, services, and investment opportunities.
- To initiate dialogue and relationships between all the investors in telecom – including the carriers, the vendors, the VCs, and the entrepreneurs.
Past Participants Include:
- Andreessen Horowitz
- AT&T
- Bouygues Telecom
- China Mobile
- Comcast
- Deutsche Telekom
- Docomo Capital
- Fuse Capital
- Google Ventures
- Hutchison Whampoa
- HTC
- Intel Capital
- Juniper Venture Investments
- KDDI
- MetroPCS
- Motorola Ventures
- Norwest Venture Partners
- Nokia Growth Partners
- NTT
- Orange
- Qualcomm Ventures
- Rogers Venture Partners
- Samsung Ventures
- Singtel Innov8
- SKT Ventures
- Sony
- Sprint
- Swisscom
- Tata Communications
- T-Ventures
- Telecom Italia
- Telefonica Ventures
- Telenor
- Telus Ventures
- Verizon Ventures
- Vodafone Ventures
Investor & Telco Opportunities
We maintain the executive and intimate nature of these events by making them available only to our Telecom Council Investor Forum members and their guests. Participants include Telecom Council members who are active investors: venture capital firms, corporate capital, angels, investment groups from the Service Provider Forum including AT&T, British Telecom, NTT, DoCoMo, France Telecom, Swisscom, Vodafone and many other fixed and wireless carriers from Europe, Asia, and the Americas.
Interested to joining us? Register to be considered for an invitation.
We encourage companies actively investing in telecom and mobile to join the Telecom Council membership and attend these meetings on an ongoing basis. A description of the Investor Forum and membership options can be found at www.telecomcouncil.com. If you would like to recommend a colleague who is not yet a member of the Investor Forum, invitations may be requested by subscribing here or calling the Council at 408-834-7933.
Networking Breakfast
Compellon
Compellon’s Mission: Enable data analysts and business users to quickly and easily discover the truth hidden within diverse data sets. The result of 20 years of research in advance information theory, Compellon’s breakthrough analysis engine simplifies traditional data analytics by eliminating the trial-and-error methodology of testing data against multiple statistical models.
Qulsar, Inc.
The new LTE infrastructure (LTE-TDD, LTE-advanced) have features that require highly precise time synchronization. The current approach and solutions (especially for Hetnets) are sub-optimal and inadequate. Qulsar has an innovative solution that can enable ubiquitous deployment and a robust solution.
Saisei
Saisei has brought to market the first in a new class of networking solution. Saisei’s Network Performance Enforcement (NPE) solution makes flow-based network links higher performing, more secure, scalable, ordered and more predictable than any traditional packet-based routed IP network today – physical or virtual. Whether you have an SDN, NFV, or legacy infrastructure, Saisei’s Network Performance Enforcement solution optimizes scale, control and bandwidth utilization just the way network operators have always wanted. No more paying double to use half your bandwidth.
YO.com
YO! connects mobile users at high speeds without the Internet and without consuming any data bandwidth. Clients can chat, talk, and share an unfettered amount of content along the network’s edge, saving billions in infrastructure costs for carriers. With data usage doubling every year, we believe a different approach is required to meet the ‘1000x Challenge’ and ensure there is capacity to support 1000 times more traffic than today. Our patent-pending technology lets users share and connect while bringing affordable connectivity to the two thirds of the world who need it.
Tx/Rx Networking Break
TiBiT Communications, Inc.
TiBiT Communications, Inc. offers a disruptive technology that will fundamentally change the way broadband access is deployed in the worldwide Cable MSO and Telco markets. We make small, low powered solutions that can be easily placed anywhere in the network, connecting different types of networks in a cost effective way.
Viddyad
Viddyad is an award-winning platform that enables businesses to create and publish their own video ads online in minutes. With an in-built content library, easy-to-use editor and affordable pricing, Viddyad opens up the world of video advertising to everyone. Create and share videos for free, with no editing experience or content required. Stunning media from an exclusive library of over 20 million clips and images is combined with custom footage, graphics, text, music and branding, then built into a professional commercial by the Viddyad platform in seconds.
