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Community Phone
Community Phone is a US telecommunications company that reinvents the landline for the mobile era. Its plug-and-play Landline Base connects an ordinary home phone to local cell towers, delivering dial tone without internet, copper wiring, or contracts. Founded in 2018 by James Graham after his grandmother was mis-sold an expensive cell phone, the Y Combinator-backed company offers transparent pricing, AI spam-call blocking, voicemail-to-text, and US-based human support to more than 25,000 homes and businesses - and was named Forbes' #1 Home Phone Service Provider of 2025.
YepChat
YepChat is a Los Angeles company that builds a phone and communication platform made specifically for restaurants. It routes calls dynamically, captures missed calls, turns inbound phone traffic into digital orders and reservations, filters robocalls, and layers on SMS and analytics. It began around 2015 as an intelligent business-texting product powered by IBM Watson, then pivoted to serving the restaurant industry, where phones ring at the worst possible moments.