| Date | Title | Description |
| 13.11.2025 | Forterra Raises $238M in Series C Equity and Debt Funding | Forterra, a Clarksburg, MD-based company improving autonomy and mission system interoperability for defense and logistics, raised $238M in Series C funding.
The round was led by Moore Strategic Ventures, with participation from new investor... |
| 13.11.2025 | Forterra: $238 Million Series C Raised To Expand Leadership In Defense Autonomy And Interoperable Mission Systems | Forterra, a leading developer of autonomous and interoperable systems for defense and logistics, has announced the closure of a $238 million Series C funding round, comprising both equity and debt. The round was led by Moore Strategic Ventu... |
| 21.03.2024 | goTenna’s new EdgeRelay offers permanent extended network coverage for enduring, off-grid missions | goTenna, the world’s leading mobile mesh networking company, unveiled the goTenna EdgeRelay, a new endurance-focused, multi-network support capability for goTenna’s Pro X2 radio operators. This ad hoc infrastructure solution supports up to ... |
| 21.03.2024 | goTenna's new EdgeRelay™ offers permanent extended network coverage for enduring, off-grid missions | JERSEY CITY, N.J., March 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- goTenna, the world's leading mobile mesh networking company, unveiled the goTenna EdgeRelay™, a new endurance-focused, multi-network support capability for goTenna's Pro X2 radio operators. ... |
| 09.01.2024 | Mattermost and goTenna Win Landmark Air Force SBIR Phase II Award to Operationalize Cutting-Edge Tactical ChatOps Function | Mattermost, Inc., the leading secure collaboration platform for technical teams, announced today that it has been awarded an Air Force SBIR Phase II contract in partnership with goTenna, the world’s leading mobile mesh networking platform. ... |
| 14.09.2023 | goTenna secures $99M IDIQ contract to enhance connectivity and improve operational safety | goTenna, the world’s leading mobile mesh networking company, was awarded a 4-year, $99M IDIQ contract with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). A groundbreaking achievement for the business, this Small Business Innovative Research (SBI... |
| 02.11.2020 | Bridgefy launches end-to-end encrypted messaging for the app used during protests and disasters | Offline-messaging app Bridgefy — which innovatively uses Bluetooth and Wi-Fi — became known as the go-to app by thousands of protesters around the world to keep communications going even when oppressive regimes blocked or shut down the inte... |
| 26.03.2020 | Hyperinflation and Zimbabwe's Multi-Currency Reality: Bitcoin in Africa Podcast, Part 2 | After three weeks of listening, recording and talking bitcoin (BTC) in Africa, podcaster Anita Posch is back in part 2 of her six-part documentary podcast series. Presented in audio and full written transcript below.
Listen/subscribe to the... |
| 24.06.2019 | Understanding Gender Bias In Venture Funding | USV portfolio company goTenna‘s founder and CEO Daniela Perdomo and USV analyst Dani Grant did some number crunching on VC funding and published the info last week.
After 4 rounds of VC, I ran my own data analysis to see if my experience is... |
| 23.06.2019 | Mobile Mesh Networking Company goTenna Secures $24 Million | World’s leading mobile mesh networking platform goTenna announced it secured $24 million in funding
goTenna — the world’s leading mobile mesh networking platform — announced it secured $24 million in funding in a combination of equity and d... |
| 19.06.2019 | Daily funding roundup - June 19th, 2019 | Whitebox raised $5M; Enboarder landed $8M; Text IQ closed $12.6M; Valtix secured $14M
Defendify: Defendify is an all-in-one, SaaS-delivered cybersecurity solution designed specifically for small businesses. Defendify has raised $1.6M in pre... |
| 19.06.2019 | Slack’s Direct Listing, Libra Reactions, and Softbank Investment Projections: Term Sheet | SLACKIN’
Slack is about to hit the public markets on Thursday via a direct listing, and all eyes are on the company.
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| 18.06.2019 | goTenna Series C | We are excited that Founders Fund has led a Series C financing for goTenna. It is a recognition of the tremendous progress the company has made in serving the communication needs of first responders and other professionals. The goTenna Proo... |
| 18.06.2019 | goTenna Closes $24M Financing Led by Founders Fund | goTenna, the world's leading mobile mesh networking platform, announced that it closed on $24M of new financing, in a combination of equity and debt to finance its continued growth and expansion of operations. Founders Fund led the Series C... |
| 18.06.2019 | GoTenna raises $24 million to help people connect off-grid via mobile mesh networks | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Mobile mesh networking platform GoTenna has raised $24 million in a mix of equity and debt funding. Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund led the... |
| 18.06.2019 | GoTenna raises $24 million to help people connect off-grid via mobile mesh networks | Mobile mesh networking platform GoTenna has raised $24 million in a mix of equity and debt funding. Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund led the series C equity element, with backing from Comcast Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Collaborative Fund, ... |
| 18.06.2019 | goTenna Closes $24M Series C Financing | goTenna, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based mobile mesh networking platform, raised $24M in Series C equity and debt funding.
The round was led by Founders Fund with participation from Comcast Ventures and existing investors Union Square Ventures, Coll... |
| 18.06.2019 | GoTenna is ramping up public sector mesh networking with a $24M C round | GoTenna is best known for its outdoors-oriented consumer products that let you text and share locations between smartphones off the grid. But the company has found that government work — military, fire, rescue — is the real market, and is p... |
| 12.06.2019 | Helium | One of the pillars of USV’s investment thesis 3.0 is “broadening access to capital”, and we often get asked what we mean by that. While “capital” includes financial capital, we have always meant it more broadly, to include human capital, te... |
| 20.02.2019 | 50 Women-Led Startups That Are Crushing Tech | Stephanie Lampkin, chief executive officer and founder of Blendoor, speaks during the 2019 Makers... [+] Conference in Dana Point, California, U.S., on Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019. The event gathers industry leading females for roundtable discus... |
| 29.06.2018 | These 50 founders and VCs suggest 2018 may be a tipping point for women: Part 1 | For the last several years, we’ve compiled profiles of women founders and investors at the end of each year because they’ve either raised substantial amounts of money or otherwise achieved notable milestones.
This year, we don’t want to wai... |
| 15.05.2018 | Off Grid Crypto Transactions | One of the benefits of decentralization is that you can build “censorship-resistant” applications.
The best example of that is Bitcoin, a store and transfer of value system that governments can’t interfere with.
Censorship resistant money, ... |
| 02.04.2018 | Google, LO3, uPort and Artsy are all hiring right now in NYC | On the Market is a Technical.ly column where we highlight new and noteworthy job openings and the people who are lookin’. Got a submission? Email us and tell us why it belongs in the roundup.LO3 has five open positions in engineering and pr... |
| 19.03.2018 | On the Market: Open jobs at Pineapple Street Media, Livepeer, goTenna, more | On the Market is a Technical.ly column where we highlight new and noteworthy job openings and the people who are lookin’. Got a submission? Email us and tell us why it belongs in the roundup.Pineapple Street Media is looking for a producer-... |
| 13.03.2018 | On the Market: Open jobs in BK tech at Kitsplit, Numina, goTenna, more | On the Market is a Technical.ly column where we highlight new and noteworthy job openings and the people who are lookin’. Got a submission? Email us and tell us why it belongs in the roundup.Kitsplit is looking for a product designer.
We ta... |
| 26.02.2018 | On the Market: 13 jobs at goTenna, Simplifi and Square Roots | On the Market is a Technical.ly column where we highlight new and noteworthy job openings and the people who are lookin’. Got a submission? Email us and tell us why it belongs in the roundup.goTenna has 10 open positions to fill.
Communicat... |
| 12.02.2018 | On the Market: 14 jobs at Eyebeam, ConsenSys, Gimlet and goTenna | On the Market is a Technical.ly column where we highlight new and noteworthy job openings and the people who are lookin’. Got a submission? Email us and tell us why it belongs in the roundup.ConsenSys is hiring for a technical analyst.
The ... |
| 09.01.2018 | 11 new jobs at Common, Gimlet, JustFix, goTenna, Civil, SuperData, NYU and CUNY | On the Market is a Technical.ly column where we highlight new and noteworthy job openings and the people who are lookin’. Got a submission? Email us and tell us why it belongs in the roundup.Common is hiring for a React developer.
The coliv... |
| 27.11.2017 | Buy local with Cyber Monday DEALS from these Brooklyn startups | It’s “Cyber Monday” today, ICYMI, and everyone is offering DEALS to buy their products. As a dues-paying member of the Brooklyn tech world, you’re obligated to shop first and foremost from Brooklyn companies. We get it. So we’ve gone ahead ... |
| 17.11.2017 | Funding Friday: goTenna Puerto Rico Mesh | Our portfolio company goTenna sent a bunch of their mesh networking devices to Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria and a number of mesh networks lit up on the island.
This is what the goTenna network map looks like on the west side o... |
| 14.11.2017 | A mesh network spontaneously erupts in the US and helps connect Puerto Rico | When goTenna put out their Mesh device earlier this year, I thought the off-grid communication gadgets would be great for an emergency kit or back-country hike. But it turns out that both I and goTenna underestimated how hungry people were ... |
| 19.10.2017 | Popular Science names two Brooklyn technologies among top 100 inventions of 2017 | Two new technologies born in Downtown Brooklyn made Popular Science magazine’s list of top inventions for 2017.
Uptane, a cybersecurity for cars project out of NYU Tandon, and goTenna, a decentralized cell network technology were listed in ... |
| 28.08.2017 | Startups hiring this week: Totem, Tinybop, goTenna, more | On the Market is a Technical.ly column where we highlight new and noteworthy job openings and the people who are lookin’. Got a submission? Email us and tell us why it belongs in the roundup.Totem is hiring for a director of real estate tec... |
| 10.08.2017 | I Tested Out the World’s First Off-the-Shelf Mesh Net Creator | As we stood at the entrance to Brooklyn's Prospect Park, we stared down at little dots on my phone, each representing Daniela Perdomo's colleagues' locations. Perdomo joked that it's sometimes underwhelming to demo goTenna Mesh: the lightwe... |
| 31.07.2017 | Tech jobs this week: ProjectEconomics, Voodoo Manufacturing, goTenna, Gimlet | On the Market is a Technical.ly column where we highlight new and noteworthy job openings and the people who are lookin’. Got a submission? Email us and tell us why it belongs in the roundup.Gimlet Media is hiring for marketers.
The podcast... |
| 25.07.2017 | A strong quarter of startup fundraising in Brooklyn, with $43 million raised | Five companies each raised more than $5 million in Brooklyn in the second quarter of 2017, which saw 17 companies raise more than $43 million in total.
Leading companies were goTenna, with $7.5 million, Voodoo Manufacturing, with $6.7 milli... |
| 22.07.2017 | Video Of The Week: Mesh Networking For Wireless Connectivity | Daniela Perdomo, founder and CEO of our portfolio company goTenna recently gave a talk at the New York Times about how mesh networking can improve wireless connectivity in urban environments.
It’s a short talk (~7 mins) and explains how mes... |
| 17.07.2017 | Tech jobs this week: goTenna, New Lab, 475 | On the Market is a Technical.ly column where we highlight new and noteworthy job openings and the people who are lookin’. Got a submission? Email us and tell us why it belongs in the roundup.goTenna is looking for marketers and developers.
... |
| 14.06.2017 | 3 tech companies hiring in Brooklyn right now | On the Market is a Technical.ly column where we highlight new and noteworthy job openings and the people who are lookin’. Got a submission? Email us and tell us why it belongs in the roundup.Citisense is looking for software engineers.
The ... |
| 22.05.2017 | On the Market: 3 Brooklyn tech companies with jobs worth applying for | On the Market is a Technical.ly column where we highlight new and noteworthy job openings and the people who are lookin’. Got a submission? Email us and tell us why it belongs in the roundup.goTenna is looking for a head of consumer marketi... |
| 17.04.2017 | On the Market: 4 Brooklyn tech jobs worth applying for | On the Market is a Technical.ly column where we highlight new and noteworthy job openings and the people who are lookin’. Got a submission? Email us and tell us why it belongs in the roundup.Agrilyst is looking for a customer success manage... |
| 14.04.2017 | Term Sheet — Friday, April 14 | OFF
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| 13.04.2017 | goTenna Raises $7.5m in Series B Funding | goTenna, a Brooklyn, USA-based maker of a device that enables smartphone users to communicate without cell towers, WiFi routers or satellites, raised $7.5m in Series B funding.
The round was led by Union Square Ventures with participation f... |
| 13.04.2017 | goTenna | Disruptive innovations often start out as worse versions of something that already exists. Worse along all dimensions except for one, but one that turns out to really matter because it unlocks a new use case for which the incumbent does not... |
| 13.04.2017 | GoTenna raises $7.5 million to enable off-the-grid communications on your smartphone | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Satellite-powered phones are often clunky, expensive, and, well, dependent on satellite connection. GoTenna wants to bring off-the-grid... |
| 13.04.2017 | goTenna Series B fuels vision to make local communication possible anywhere on the planet | Founded in 2012 with the small goal of enabling connectivity-free communication, goTenna has ballooned to more than 23 employees and delivered real hardware to market in the process. Today the startup is adding another $7.5 million to its c... |
| 13.04.2017 | GoTenna raises $7.5 million to enable off-the-grid communications on your smartphone | Satellite-powered phones are often clunky, expensive, and, well, dependent on satellite connection. GoTenna wants to bring off-the-grid text and GPS communication to your smartphone. No cell service? No Wi-Fi? No problem. The Brooklyn-based... |
| 13.04.2017 | GoTenna Raises $7.5M Series B | goTenna, the first and only company to enable completely off-grid, long-range mobile communications on regular smartphones regardless of cell service, wifi, satellites or even base stations, today announced $7.5 million in Series B funding ... |
| 13.04.2017 | Off-grid cell service provider goTenna raises $7.5M | The company will use the funding to manufacture its new products, goTenna Mesh and Pro
GoTenna is a device that enables smartphone users to communicate without cell towers, WiFi routers or even satellites. Founded in the aftermath of Hurric... |
| 27.03.2017 | GoTenna Pro meshing radio aspires to deploy next to rescue, fire and security teams | Keeping in touch when there’s no communications infrastructure for one reason or another is nice for you and me, but critical for disaster response, forest fire control and military operations. GoTenna wants its new Pro device to be part of... |
| 21.02.2017 | This week’s emoji jobs report: ? ?? ?️ ?️ ?️ ?️ | On the Market is a new column where we highlight noteworthy job openings and the people who are lookin’. Got a submission? Email us and tell us why it belongs in the roundup.Atlas Obscura is looking for an advertising associate.
The offbeat... |
| 01.02.2017 | CEO of goTenna has a message for Trump: NAFTA helps her hire in NYC | Daniela Perdomo, the cofounder and CEO of goTenna, took exception last week to President Donald Trump’s suggestion of a 20 percent tariff on goods imported from Mexico. Yesterday, she took to LinkedIn to collect her thoughts.
The maker of o... |
| 23.01.2017 | On the Market: 3 Brooklyn tech jobs worth applying for | On the Market is a brand-new column where we highlight noteworthy job openings and the people who are lookin’. Got a submission? Email us and tell us why it belongs in the roundup.
GoTenna is hiring a marketing director.
The off-the-grid co... |
| 02.12.2016 | The Technical.ly Brooklyn holiday gift guide | Buy your family gifts that are both inventive and unique, and also help the local economy this year.
Here at Technical.ly Brooklyn, we’ve had the privilege of covering some really interesting people doing wonderfully cool stuff. There’s the... |
| 28.09.2016 | GoTenna Mesh keeps people connected even when they’re miles apart and off-grid | Today, goTenna is taking pre-orders for their new product, a device called the goTenna Mesh that lets smartphone users text and share their GPS locations, off-grid and across miles of terrain.
The new device works like goTenna’s flagship pr... |
| 08.06.2016 | Tech.Co’s Guide to Father’s Day Gadgets and Tech | Each June on the third Sunday of the month we gather ‘round the bacon tree, tell tales of how strong our fathers are, and then share what can only be called the worst genre of jokes on the planet: dad jokes. It’s also entirely possible that... |
| 01.06.2016 | There’s a Simple Way to Improve Tech’s Gender Imbalance | 💥A Boom with a View💥 is a column about startups and the technology industry, written by Erin Griffith. Find them all here: fortune.com/boom.
Technology companies know the value of early adopters who are eager to try a hot new product and te... |
| 07.03.2016 | goTenna gets millions in venture money to get you off the grid | Off-the-grid communications company goTenna received $7.5 million in venture capital investment last week, according to VentureBeat.
What goTenna does is allows you to bring a tiny communications tower with you wherever you go, turning your... |
| 02.03.2016 | REI and startup goTenna team up so you can #optoutside and still get a cell signal | The goTenna portable antenna. (Via REI.com)
If you #optoutside and happen to wander further than the range of your cell signal, goTenna may be the device for you, and now recreational outfitter REI will be the only retail outlet to carry it... |
| 02.03.2016 | Funding Daily: GoTenna catches $7.5 million to connect phones when they’re off the grid | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
GoTenna, a Brooklyn-based startup behind a portab... |
| 02.03.2016 | Daily funding roundup - March 2, 2016 | Blippar raised $54M; Rocksbox bagged $8.7M Series A; Influitive secured $8.2M funding
goTenna, a device that enables smartphone users to communicate without cell towers, wifi routers or even satellites. The company announced a $7.5 million ... |
| 02.03.2016 | GoTenna raises $7.5M to provide off-grid cell service | The company is also making its first retail launch exculsively with REI
Remember that giant blackout that hit the east coast back in 2003? One thing that I remember clearly is that, while my mother and I were able to make it home pretty eas... |
| 02.03.2016 | Funding Daily: GoTenna catches $7.5 million to connect phones when they’re off the grid | GoTenna, a Brooklyn-based startup behind a portable personal antenna for smartphones, announced today that it caught a $7.5 million investment. Walden Venture Capital led the series A round, followed by MentorTech Ventures and Verizon subsi... |
| 02.03.2016 | goTenna Raises $7.5M in Series A Funding | goTenna, a NY-based developer of a device that enables smartphone users to communicate without cell towers, wifi routers or satellites, raised $7.5m in Series A funding.
The round was led by Walden Venture Capital with participation from Me... |
| 02.03.2016 | Meet goTenna, a Gadget That Lets You Text Without a Cell Signal | Even in a place like New York City, there are times when we find ourselves disconnected, unable to reach a friend or to get help in an emergency—usually when we most need to.
That realization inspired Brazilian-born brother-sister team Dani... |
| 02.03.2016 | GoTenna, the startup that lets you text without cell signal, raises $7.5M and launches with REI | GoTenna, the device for people who want to stay connected when they don’t have cell signal, has found a natural launch partner — outdoor equipment retailer REI.
Daniela Perdomo, goTenna’s CEO and co-founder, told me that REI has signed on t... |
| 16.12.2015 | GoTenna Allows Users To Send Text Messages And Share Location When There's No Cell Signal | Mark Lelinwalla, Tech Times 16 December 2015, 01:12 pm
Say you're off camping, hiking or skiing and are without any cell phone signal.
Well, there's a device available that will ensure you're not completely off the grid. The GoTenna makes a... |
| 29.11.2015 | GoTenna Keeps Your Cell Phone Connected, Even When You Don’t Have Cell Service | GoTenna co-founder Daniela Perdomo knows that her startup has been “quiet for a long time,” but she said it’s for a good reason — the team has been busy turning its prototype into something that could be “manufactured at scale.”
The company... |
| 04.01.2015 | GoTenna keeps your smartphone connected when you go off-grid | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
LAS VEGAS — If you find yourself completely off the grid there may yet be some hope that your smartphone will be more than just a worth... |
| 17.07.2014 | Lost in the woods? This gadget can save your bacon | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Picture this: You’re on a camping trip, up on some mountain in the middle of nowhere, and suddenly you get hurt and need to call for he... |
| 17.07.2014 | The GoTenna Will Let You Communicate Without Any Connectivity | By this point, most of us are fully addicted to our smartphones. And when we find ourselves without Wifi or data service, our most direct connection to everything becomes almost useless. That’s where GoTenna comes in.
The device is launchin... |
| 17.07.2014 | Lost in the woods? This gadget can save your bacon | Picture this: You’re on a camping trip, up on some mountain in the middle of nowhere, and suddenly you get hurt and need to call for help. Problem is, your phone isn’t getting any service, and you’re now stranded without a way to reach anyo... |
| - | SA 100 2014: The Coolest People In New York City Tech | Business Insider New York City has become home to some of the tech industry's most promising companies, including Etsy, MongoDB, and Vice Media.
So we created the Silicon Alley 100 to celebrate people who did the coolest things in the past ... |
| - | goTenna Raises Another $24M to Bring Connectivity in Situations When it is Needed the Most | 470SHARES
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Losing touch with the outside world during calamitous events like natural disasters is still a serious concern even in this age of what seems to be constant connectivity. goTenna addresses this problem wit... |
