NYC startup Telgea raises $2.7M to simplify global mobile connectivity for businesses

Managing mobile plans for thousands of employees across multiple countries is a mess—contracts, roaming charges, local carrier negotiations, fragmented billing, and lots of internal admin. According to Samsung, global companies spend anywhere from $800 to $1,200 per employee each year on mobile-related costs. That adds up fast—over $8 million annually for a company with 10,000 employees—and keeping it all running often requires a full team.

Most companies don’t even realize how much time and money they’re sinking into this.

Telgea, a New York-based startup, wants to change that. The company has built a global mobile platform that lets businesses manage mobile service across countries using a single contract, number, and interface. No roaming. No juggling multiple carriers. Just one platform that handles everything.

Today, Telgea announced it has raised $2.7 million in funding to help fix how global business telecom is done. Telgea is currently active in eight markets, with plans to keep growing, one country at a time. The $2.7 million funding round includes backing from Amigos Venture Capital, Antler, Motivate Ventures, and SSE Ventures.

The startup was founded by Andreas Åfeldt Franke and Theis Jensen, two founders with a track record of scaling companies across continents. Åfeldt Franke previously helped grow Tipser and Innometrics to thousands of employees while raising over $500 million. Jensen took his medtech company Sani Nudge into 16 countries before exiting in 2023.

Headquartered in New York, the company offers unlimited texts, calls, and data across more than 75 countries. No contracts, no minimums—just a single platform for business mobile service, built to keep things simple.

Since launching in November 2024, Telgea has rolled out in eight countries and already signed customer deals totaling $1 million in annual recurring revenue.

“When building an international company, it’s all about removing complexity, and with every new country, that complexity grows exponentially. If businesses can reduce or even eliminate the burden of managing mobile contracts across countries, they can free up internal resources and make it significantly easier to scale globally,” said CEO and co-founder Andreas Åfeldt Franke.

Telgea’s tech is built to scale with its customers. The company uses AI to launch a new telecom operator in a different country every month. That means faster rollout, less manual setup, and fewer barriers for companies that want to expand.

The platform also automates onboarding, support, and other telecom operations. Virtual agents handle everything from plan activation to troubleshooting, so IT and HR teams don’t have to.

David Wieland, founder and managing partner at Motivate Venture Capital, said Telgea reminded him of a certain fintech giant: “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.”