Teleena Raises Growth Financing From Tata Communications

  • Year
    February/2017
  • Sector
    Digital Transformation Digital Services
  • Our Mission
    Exclusive Financial Advisor to Teleena

Internet of Things

Enormous market potential comes within reach

Founded in 2007 in the highly innovative and competitive Dutch telecommunications market, Teleena has built a comprehensive service portfolio to help M(V)NO’s to become successful. Teleena’s MVNx service delivery platform has been revolutionized to become the cornerstone of a fully managed IoT Enablement Platform.

Tata Communications, a leading global communications and enterprise IT service provider, announced that it completed a strategic investment in Teleena.

Drake Star Partners’ Amsterdam Office has acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Teleena on its fundraising with Tata Communications.

Robert Wilhelm, commented: “Teleena’s state-of-the-art proprietary connectivity platform makes it a frontrunner in a fast-growing market. Having secured additional growth financing from Tata Communications, the most suitable and global reputable strategic investor, we believe Teleena is extremely well-positioned to address the huge market potential in both IoT and Mobile.”

Drake Star Partners’ deal team consisted of: Robert Wilhelm, Arjan Brienen and Manus Weber

About Teleena

Teleena is a global IoT and MVNO enabler headquartered in the Netherlands, with regional offices in the United Kingdom and Singapore. Since its foundation in 2007, Teleena has been enabling companies with IoT and Mobile ambitions with a broad portfolio of products and services. Today, Teleena operates more than 1 million devices, worldwide.

Teleena’s value proposition: We take the complexity out of connecting everything and everybody. It is our aim to allow our customers to seamlessly connect to all mobile operators worldwide and help them to realize all their mobile connectivity and IoT ambitions. Either to unleash new business, to grow revenue or to reduce costs. Teleena service portfolio spans the entire IoT/Mobile spectrum from core network (SIMs, GGSN/PGW, OCS/PCRF, HLR/HSS) to business support tools (Management Portal and APIs) in a highly scalable way. Teleena’s roaming agreements provide access to 660 networks in 220 countries, as well 50 million global WiFi hotspots, LoRa and Sigfox network connectivity.

For more information, please visit www.teleena.com; Mr. Emile de Boer

About Tata Communications

Tata Communications is a global company with its roots in the emerging markets. Headquartered in Mumbai and Singapore, it has more than 8500 employees across 38 countries. The USD 3.2 billion company is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange of India and is the flagship telecoms arm of the USD 103.3 billion Tata Group.

Tata Communications owns and operates the world’s largest fibre optic cable network, covering 240,000 kilometers, including the first and only fibre optic ring around the world. Their network travels over land and under the sea to link six continents and more than 200 nations, territories and accounts for over 20% of the world’s Internet routes. Tata Communications’ network also carries 53 billion voice minutes per year, and 50% of the world’s roaming traffic.

For more information, please visit www.tatacommunications.com

About Drake Star Partners