Telecommunications startup Telgea has raised $2.7 million to reduce complexity in mobile operations management.
According to research, global companies spend $800 to 1,200 per employee each year on mobile for devices, contracts, roaming, and internal admin. For a 10,000-person company, that’s more than $8 million annually and a significant operational burden that requires multiple full-time employees.
Telgea offers one unified mobile platform. Businesses can onboard employees across countries using a single contract, number, and interface - no roaming, no fragmented billing, no local carrier negotiations.
Telgea was founded by Andreas Åfeldt Franke, who has previously scaled companies like Tipser and Innometrics to thousands of employees while raising $500 million, and Theis Jensen, who founded and scaled medtech company Sani Nudge across 16 different countries across Europe, Asia, and the US before exiting the company in 2023.
According to Andreas Åfeldt Franke, co-founder and CEO of Telgea, the real value isn’t the savings; it’s eliminating friction:
“When you remove the need to manage multiple telecom contracts across countries, you free up internal resources and make it significantly easier to run and scale an international business.”
Beyond connectivity, Telgea’s AI automates telecom operations, including onboarding and support. Virtual agents handle everything from plan activation to issue resolution, reducing the load on IT and HR.
Already live in eight countries and launching a new one each month, Telgea has raised its current funding from Amigo Ventures, Antler, Motivate Ventures, and the Stockholm School of Economics.
“Just as Revolut made banking truly borderless, Telgea is breaking down global telecom barriers by fully automating what was once a manual, resource-heavy industry. This is the kind of execution that builds billion-dollar companies,” says David Wieland, founder and managing partner at Motivate Venture Capital.
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