Surge

Stripe for telephony

Y CombinatorFall 2024ActiveB2BEngineering, Product and DesignDeveloper ToolsSaaSAPITelecommunications

What they do

Problem

SMS/telephony platforms have slow, complex onboarding and carrier registration due to increased regulation, delaying startups from sending messages quickly.

Solution

Surge provides a telephony API platform with streamlined carrier registration, strong support, and higher-level APIs plus no-code UI components to speed implementation.

Who it's for

Startups and developers integrating SMS/telephony into their products.

Founders

Dennis Beatty

Founder

Founder/CEO at Surge (F24), the easiest way for developers to send text messages. Formerly principal engineer over payments at Entrata and early engineer at Podium (W16) where I was a tech lead and senior engineer over the messaging platform and led engineering for the SMS payments product that reached a $2B run rate in year 2.

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Brett Beatty

Founder

Co-Founder/CTO at Surge (F24), the easiest way to add text messaging to software. Prior to Surge, I spent six years at Podium (W16) where I was a senior engineer on the Phones team and the account structure team, building the APIs upon which the rest of Podium's products were built. I was very focused on providing five nines of uptime and sub-millisecond response times.

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