Telecommunications Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) 2026

AI notetakers clutter meetings. Multiple tabs separate knowledge. Lyra brings meetings and work together in one clean workspace. You can work on docs with AI and your team live, no screenshare required. Create follow-ups and action items as you talk. Ask your meeting questions after the call. Access auto-transcribed calls and instant summaries. Everything stays in one place with full context across every meeting.

careCycle is an AI workforce for medicare agencies and FMOs - helping leading agencies achieve 5x higher conversions, 37% better retention, and saving thousands of agent hours. We're transforming how Medicare agencies handle member relationships with teams of voice AI agents. We're solving the industry's biggest challenge: 50% annual member churn caused by poor post-enrollment engagement. Our multi-agent AI teams work together to handle the entire customer journey - from initial contact through enrollment and ongoing care. When a lead comes in after hours, one AI agent answers and schedules a callback, another calls at the perfect time, a third captures qualifying information, and a fourth handles the warm transfer to a licensed agent. This approach helped a leading FMO write over $2M in renewals during AEP 2024 while reducing agent talk time by 20% per sale. We've pioneered a purpose-built solution for Medicare's unique compliance requirements. Unlike generic AI platforms, our system features built-in HIPAA/CMS compliance, real-time data structuring, and seamless CRM integration. This enables agencies of all sizes to deliver enterprise-grade member care without massive infrastructure investments. Early metrics show the power of our approach: - 5x increase in after-hours conversion rates - 37% improvement in 90-day retention - 3,000+ agent hours saved in a single AEP - $2M+ in additional renewals during AEP 2024 The Medicare Advantage market represents a massive opportunity, with over $360B in annual premiums and growing 10% year over year. By solving the member retention challenge, we're positioning ourselves to capture significant value by transforming the member care experience for beneficiaries.

Robust live speech translation models with 50+ languages and simple integration

Surge is Stripe for telephony. Our team has experience building telephony software at billion dollar scale. Because of increased regulation, Twilio and other SMS APIs take weeks to onboard new customers, but we can get startups onboarded same day. Surge wins by enabling easy carrier registration, better support, and higher level APIs and no code UI components to make implementation easier for startups and developers.

Avery helps property managers fill vacancies faster and resolve maintenance requests automatically. Our AI property manager and leasing agents can be assigned to complete many common tasks, from getting tours scheduled to following up with vendors. There are nearly 300,000 third party property management companies across the US, many of whom are overwhelmed by dozens of repetitive tenant requests streaming in through antiquated software every day. Avery modernizes the property manager’s toolkit with a two-way contact center to provide an excellent resident experience. Learn more at https://averyiq.com

Terrakotta is a power-dialer that lets sales reps leave AI-generated voicemails. Our first customers are Commercial Real Estate brokerages that use Terrakotta to clone their brokers voices, dial prospects and when no one answers, leave an A/B tested, personalized voicemail that gets a callback.

Salvy is a mobile carrier for businesses in Brazil. Over 1800 companies use Salvy to manage over 20,000 mobile lines, cutting costs by over 50%. The founders have worked many years together in Brazil's largest fintechs (Nubank and EBANX). Today, every carrier in Brazil has roughly the same network quality - it isn't a differentiator. If you're an IT manager who needs to deploy 2k lines, you want an integrated and seamless solution. You need to deploy this resource, fast. Salvy provides a software layer that makes deploying and managing mobile lines a fast and efficient process, integrated with HRIS, ERPs, and others. This is a massive market: there are 55 million b2b mobile lines in Brazil, which adds up to 5 billion dollars in ARR in just one country.

Smobi is the AI-powered platform for branded, interactive business messaging, starting with RCS. We help businesses send rich, personalized messages that drive engagement, build trust, and create real conversations.

Devyce is building the global mobile network for business. Right now, we give your employees a business phone number in an app, on their personal phone, instantly, alongside a portal for analytics, management and integrations. Nick has a background in recruiting and real estate and understands the pain points these industries face with hybrid working, while Ed has a solid tech background including a CS degree from Cambridge. Because of our relationship with a mobile network operator, we have the unfair advantage that we will actually become a mobile network, unlike other SaaS VoIP providers. https://devyce.com/

Brazilians hate the experience of using the traditional mobile carriers. They force you to pay for data packages you don’t need and make it impossible to switch your plans. Fluke offers a better customer experience and that’s why we have a CAC that is 50% lower and an LTV that’s 30% higher than traditional carriers. What’s smart about our approach is we rent infrastructure from these incumbents and build a better customer experience on top of it. This keeps our costs lows and lets us focus on what really matters: the customer experience! We have the best network and customers are switching to us because of the service and flexibility to build their own customized mobile plans. We are doing in telco what Nubank did in banking in Brazil. We are Fluke, thank you!

Siglo is a wireless ISP for communities in urban Latin America offering a faster, better, and easy-to-pay service.

We use cutting-edge radio tech operating in unlicensed spectrum to rapidly build fiber-quality networks (1Gbps ) in the urban developing world.

Ready builds software tools that help utility stakeholders collaborate, so that more families get better utility services at lower cost. Ready Digital Infrastructure empowers utilities to deliver next-generation digital services.

Previous Qwest (W19) - skip busy club lines. Autodial (currently exiting) is a service for skipping busy phone lines for everyday people calling businesses. Our goal is to connect people directly to customer service via phone lines by reducing the wait time from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. We cover 10,000 phone lines ranging from financial institutions, telecom, home services, government, etc. The Pivot Club and restaurant lines were non-existent during COVID. We reset the company and shifted focus using more technical skills in machine learning to build a service that millions of americans could use and leverage in the moment -- a service that called government phone lines and handled the call process. Succeeding we expanded quickly expanded and built a model to support people using the service for free.

Community Phone is building the best phone for communities in America. We are your hair salon’s business phone, how your auto-body shop texts you or gets appointments, your local government agency’s operations line, and your mom’s phone that she sometimes answers on her computer. We have more than 20,000 customers today, and are building the Square of phones. Our team is ~80 people strong, across 15 countries. We are growing quickly, backed by Y Combinator Accelerator and Y Combinator’s Continuity Fund. We are customer-obsessed to the core. When we had a major network outage, everyone from recruiters to engineers to marketers to customer support agents got on the phone with our customers. Our team exemplifies our purpose. Join us on our mission to make it as easy as possible for people and people at organizations in our communities to communicate.

We enable humans & machines with internet connectivity at a price that they can afford. The inspiration for Wifi Dabba came from the founders working together for the last decade in the mobile application industry and realising the biggest reason for user churn being access to cheap and affordable internet access. From having worked on ground onboarding users and facing poor connectivity issues all the time, we took it on ourselves to fix the internet access problem for the common citizen. At Wifi Dabba (YC W17), we are building a low cost, scalable & distributed Wi-Fi infrastructure to connect next billion users online. We do this by deploying a grid of lasers (Free Space Optics) over the cities & town and bring cheap and fast internet for everyone. We enable anyone to buy 1 gig of data access at a time at a price they can afford. Sachetization of internet access is the foundation to rebuilding internet for all. We do this by leveraging crypto and blockchain to truly make internet infrastructure ownership distributed — our vision is to be connectivity layer for the Web3 world.

Tizeti provides broadband internet services to densely populated urban centers in Africa. Tizeti is leveraging the large wireless capacity available with Wi-Fi and plummeting cost of solar panels to create a low CAPEX/OPEX network of owned and operated towers to offer disruptive, customer-friendly pricing for unlimited internet service right across Africa.

Per Vices builds the highest performing Software Defined Radios for mission critical applications for industries that can't live without them. Our products are modular, easy to use, provide the best possible performance, and replace a number complex sub-systems and components. Customers developing wireless applications use our products because they dramatically lower integration and development complexity, total cost of ownership, and time to market. Our proprietary, industry leading, technology provides the best performance and maintains an efficient abstraction layer that allows customers to easily incorporate our product into their application.

EzDubs is a real-time speech translator. Our proprietary models translate speech without waiting for complete sentences, clone voices on the fly (without enrollments), and even replicate emotions in the translated language. Our iOS and Android apps translate live phone calls, automatically dub voice messages, and auto-translate text conversations so that you can communicate seamlessly across languages, with your voice and emotions. Thousands of users use EzDubs to communicate with friends and family who speak different languages, manage offshore teams, and even have relationships across languages. Visit https://ezdubs.ai to download our app and try a live demo of our real-time speech translator, or reach out to explore how EzDubs can integrate with your communication stack to enable live multilingual conversations.

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