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Telgea wants your phone bill to lose its passport
A company can work across borders while its phone contracts remain stubbornly local. Telgea is putting those contracts, numbers and invoices under one roof - with the carriers invited inside.
The Little Orange Puck That Wanted to Replace the SIM Card
Shenzhen Sikai Rong Technology helped turn a traveler’s roaming headache into Skyroam’s virtual-SIM business. The orange hotspot was only the first act.
Benjamin Forgan Is Building the Quiet Layer That Keeps the Physical World Online
A broken connection in Singapore became a decade-long lesson in infrastructure: make cellular access programmable, design failure out of the system, and let builders concentrate on what their devices actually do.
Jing Liu
Jing Liu is the Founder and CEO of SIMO (formerly Skyroam), the AI-driven cloud connectivity platform that lets devices roam across 300+ mobile carriers in 145+ countries without a physical SIM card. She founded the company in 2008 in Silicon Valley, pioneered patented virtual SIM (vSIM) technology, raised $63.5M in funding including a $20M Series C2 in 2019, and has built SIMO into a platform serving over 15 million users and 6+ million connected IoT devices. Under her leadership, SIMO extended its reach from travel hotspots to enterprise IoT, automotive, and mission-critical connectivity.
SIMO
SIMO is a San Francisco mobile-connectivity company whose patented virtual SIM (vSIM) lets devices roam across 300+ carriers in 140+ countries with no physical SIM card. Founded in 2009 as Skyroam, it now powers the Solis line of pocket hotspots for consumers and an embedded chipset/cloud platform used by enterprises, automakers and IoT fleets.