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OXIO: buy a Coke, get a gigabyte
OXIO lets retailers, fintechs and enterprises put their own name on a mobile network. Its wager: the company that knows your habits may have a better use for your phone bill.
Rapid and the price of a shortcut
Rapid made APIs easier to find, test, and buy. Its journey from a teenage founder’s marketplace to Nokia’s network ambitions reveals the awkward business of selling developers time.
Comviva makes the money move. Other brands get the credit.
From a failed flower order to a mobile wallet in Oman, Comviva works behind the brands people recognize. Its business is making payments, telecom services and customer systems work together.
tyntec turns the humble message into serious business
A WhatsApp conversation can sell a jacket. A network signal can help verify a customer. Tyntec has spent two decades connecting those everyday moments to the machinery of mobile telecoms.
Neelam Sandhu
After learning transformation from inside BlackBerry, Neelam Sandhu arrived at Vonage with a practical thesis: translate complex technology into human outcomes, and make trust part of the product story.
Ericsson
The 149-year-old Swedish firm that helped write the rules of 5G now has to prove those networks can grow again - under a new CEO and an AI-driven cost squeeze.
Vonage
Vonage is a cloud communications company that lets businesses and developers add voice, video, SMS, messaging and network-based verification to their apps and customer operations. Once a pioneer of home internet phone service, it reinvented itself as a platform business built on APIs, unified communications and contact-center software, and is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Ericsson operating as its Global Communications Platform.
Orisa Cherenfant
Orisa Cherenfant is SVP of Industry Relations & Strategic Growth at Twilio, the cloud communications platform powering billions of messages, calls, and interactions globally. A first-generation college graduate from Cape Verde who earned dual degrees in Finance and Marketing from Boston College, she built her career through GE's leadership development programs before moving into tech. At Twilio, she leads industry partnerships and growth strategy, speaks at major conferences like MWC Barcelona and Twilio Signal, and was named a 2025 Entreprenista 100 Award winner. She is based in Los Angeles with her partner Eli and their twins, Margaux and Maverick.