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Skylo

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Skylo provides satellite connectivity for smartphones and IoT devices, enabling reliable data, SMS, and voice services even in areas without cellular coverage, supporting large-scale industrial sensor deployments.

Blurb

Skylo is a global non-terrestrial service provider that allows smartphone and IoT cellular devices to connect directly over satellites.

HQ Location

Mountain View (United States)

Founded

2017

Employees

51 - 200

Total funding raised

$183.00M

Last Funding Event

Venture - Series Unknown, $30.00M, February 27, 2025

Smart insights

  • Tarun Gupta (Co-Founder) worked at Google in various roles, including Head of Strategy & Operations, for a total of 6.5 years (2014 - 2020)
  • Madan Ankapura (VP of Products) worked at Google as Product Manager, Android for 9 years (2013 - 2022)
  • Guillaume Kempf (Chief Financial Officer) worked at Google for 1.5 years (2016 - 2018)
  • 6m headcount growth: 7%
  • 1Y headcount growth: 23%
  • Headcount-to-last-round ratio: 1.0 employees/$M

Skylo Technologies is a global NTN service provider, offering a service that allows smartphone and IoT cellular devices to connect directly over existing satellites. Skylo's commercial NTN vRAN manages and serves devices connected over satellite, featuring a 3GPP standards-based cloud-native base station and core. Skylo works with existing satellite operators, network operators, and device makers to provide subscribers an anywhere, anytime connectivity solution that seamlessly roams between terrestrial and satellite networks.