Verizon

Verizon Communications Inc. is a leading telecommunications company headquartered in New York, founded in 1983. It offers a wide array of communication, information, and entertainment products and services to consumers, businesses, and government entities globally. The Consumer segment provides various service plans, internet access, wireless devices, and residential connectivity solutions, including broadband and video services. As of the latest data, Verizon serves approximately 102 million wireless retail connections and millions of broadband and video connections. The Business segment delivers network connectivity products, voice services, unified communications, and data solutions, supporting a diverse range of enterprise needs. Verizon also focuses on innovation through strategic partnerships and initiatives, such as 5G development and venture investments in emerging technologies. With a robust wireless network and extensive service offerings, Verizon plays a crucial role in enhancing connectivity and driving technological advancement.

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Scale Stage Early Venture Series B Series A Acquisition Show more

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Robert A. Varettoni

Executive Director, Media Relations

Past deals in Wireless

Wiliot

Series C in 2021

WIliot is a fabless semiconductor company developing passive SoC platforms for the IoT market. No battery and seamless connectivity operation will be the baseline enabler of IoT future growth.

CoreTigo

Series B in 2021

CoreTigo develops secured wireless network system to support IoT nodes at a latency of milliseconds.

Origin Wireless

Venture Round in 2021

Origin Wireless is a m2m (machine to machine) services company providing solutions to various industries and verticals. Specializing in communication platforms for service related B2B (business to business) and B2C (business to consumer) solutions. These services may include risk assessment and monitoring, customer service communication and monitoring, integrated management and reporting services, end-user gateways and dashboards.

Origin AI

Venture Round in 2021

Origin Wireless aims to deliver smart radios for smart life by developing advanced wireless technologies for a wide range of applications, including the world's first centimeter accuracy indoor positioning or tracking, indoor monitoring, security, radio human biometrics, wireless power transfer, and 5G communications. The technologies take advantage of unavoidable but rich multi-paths in signal propagation and the physics of time-reversal that resonate with the environment to focus signal energy to specific positions through Origin’s Waveforming technology.

Cellwize

Series B in 2020

Cellwize Wireless Technologies Pte Ltd. develops and delivers self-organizing network (SON) solutions across vendors and wireless technologies. The company offers Cellwize elastic-SON platform that is deployed and managed on private clouds, and transforms spotty and volatile networks that struggle to meet demand into user-centric and over-performing mobile networks across multiple vendors and wireless technologies; and Cellwize Centralized SON, a SON solution on NFV directly communicating with the cloud with multiple element management systems for SON activities. It serves mobile network operators across Europe, APAC, and LATAM. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Singapore with an additional location in the United Kingdom.

Bluegrass Cellular

Acquisition in 2020

Bluegrass Cellular was the first cellular carrier to provide analog cellular network service in rural Kentucky. Service was initiated in May 1991 with the construction of cellular sites in Bowling Green, Glasgow, Elizabethtown, Bardstown, Radcliff and Russell Springs. Since the initiation of service, the Bluegrass Cellular wireless network has grown to provide coverage to 40 counties within its license areas.Bluegrass Cellular is committed to serving as a pioneer of wireless service in rural Kentucky. In October 1998, the company launched digital cellular services in Central Kentucky. In November 2004, Bluegrass Cellular launched 2G enhanced services on its CDMA digital 1X data network, and in late 2007, EVDO 3G high-speed data service was added to its markets.

Wiliot

Series B in 2020

WIliot is a fabless semiconductor company developing passive SoC platforms for the IoT market. No battery and seamless connectivity operation will be the baseline enabler of IoT future growth.

LQD WiFi

Acquisition in 2016

LQD is WiF specializes in developing smart cities and ubiquitous WiFi, providing cities with new outdoor hubs of social technology. Its technology is designed to enable communities and ignite the new fabric of urban spaces. It offers PALO designed to create an integrated network of elegant and engaging community technology hubs that connect, inform, inspire, and support people in the places they live, work, and play.

Kumu Networks

Series C in 2016

Kumu Networks, Inc. is a technology company based in Sunnyvale, California, that specializes in developing innovative wireless systems using full-duplex wireless design technology. Founded in 2011, the company has created a solution that allows radios to transmit and receive signals simultaneously on a single frequency channel. This groundbreaking approach enhances the performance of wireless devices and reduces complexity across various applications. By enabling multiple radios to operate in close proximity without interference, Kumu's technology allows for improved cooperation among devices and effectively mitigates self-interference. This advancement has significant implications for the wireless market, providing radiofrequency system designers with the tools necessary to optimize performance in their designs.