# ECI Telecom

> ECI Telecom is a VC fund in Petah Tikwah backing TV and Mobile. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Petah Tikwah, Israel
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Jun 2008
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/eci-telecom
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/ecitelecom
- Website: http://www.ecitele.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ecitelecom

ECI Telecom is a VC fund in Petah Tikwah focused on TV and Mobile. Along with its long-standing, industry-proven packet-optical transport, ECI offers a variety of SDN/NFV applications, end-to-end network management, a comprehensive cyber security solution, and a range of professional services. ECI's ELASTIC solutions ensure open, future-proof, and secure communications. With ECI, customers have theluxury of choosing a network that can be tailor-made to their needs today as well as be seamlessly and cost effectively upgraded to future requirements.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for ECI Telecom. Shizune tracks 8 team members at ECI Telecom. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/eci-telecom?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| TV | 1 | 25% |
| Mobile | 1 | 25% |
| Wireless | 1 | 25% |
| Wearables | 1 | 25% |
| Web Hosting | 1 | 25% |

9 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 2 | 50% |
| Series B | 1 | 25% |
| Series C | 1 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 50% |
| Israel | 1 | 25% |
| Australia | 1 | 25% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Adi Bildner | VP HR | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adi-bildner |
| Boaz Yardeni | EVP of Operations & Services | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boaz-yardeni |
| Darryl Edwards | CEO and President | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/darryl-edwards |
| David Stokes | Senior Product Marketing Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-stokes-e83f |
| Giora Bitan | EVP and CFO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/giora-bitan |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Celtro | Celtro provides cellular backhaul traffic aggregation and optimization solutions geared to help mobile operators to improve service delivery and increase network efficiency.Celtro Communication is a privately owned company founded in 2001. The company provides innovative, reliable and cost effective optimization solutions for any and all cellularbackhaul networks and its products are installed worldwide. | $20M | Series C | Jun 27, 2008 |  |
| Veraz Networks | Veraz Networks, Inc. provides voice infrastructure solutions for wireline and wireless service providers. It offers bandwidth optimization products, including I-Gate 4000 family of media gateways and session bandwidth optimizers, and DTX family of digital circuit multiplication equipment; and switching products, such as ControlSwitch product familybased on the Internet protocol multimedia subsystem, network-adaptive border controller products, and session border controllers. The company also provides hardware and software maintenance and support, installation, training, and other professional services. Its products enable service providers to transport, convert, and manage data and voice traffic over time-division multiplexing and IP networks. Veraz Networks sells its products through direct sales force, as well as through indirect sales channels. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in San Jose, California. | $10M |  | Feb 08, 2007 |  |
| Celvibe | Celvibe develops advanced solutions for streaming high-quality live television broadcasts to mobile users. The core technology enables the seamless delivery of rich media content in the most efficient manner by providing wireless carriers with a unique system for delivering live multi-channel video and audio to wireless users in realtime. CelFeed,the flagship product, is a realtime MPEG-4 transcoder and streamer for supplying mobile devices with rich media content based on realtime reception quality. CelFeed handles hundreds of concurrent users with live video channels at once, by converting compressed streams of live television broadcasts and existing video content on the fly. Its unique ability to 'feel the network' and dynamically adapt to terminal conditions provides end users with an uninterrupted flow of quality data.Celvibe's patent-pending solutions consist of realtime encoding for deploying highly compressed streams of live television broadcasts over wireless networks, and realtime transcoding for converting existing video content to MPEG-4. Customers and partners include Telco's and wireless carriers who are adding packet switch capabilities to their networks, mobile device manufacturers, content providers, application providers and video server manufacturers. | $3M | Series B | Jan 16, 2001 |  |
| Telegate Ltd. | Telegate is a developer of the most reliable and feature-rich VoIP system. | $11.5M |  | Jul 01, 1999 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Argonaut Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/argonaut-holdings) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Aryt Industries](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aryt-industries) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Battery Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/battery-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Cedar Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cedar-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Comdisco](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/comdisco) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Deutsche Telekom](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/deutsche-telekom) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does ECI Telecom invest in?

ECI Telecom invests primarily in TV, Mobile and Wireless startups, most often at Funding Round and Series B stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact ECI Telecom?

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### Who are the partners at ECI Telecom?

The team at ECI Telecom includes Adi Bildner (VP HR), Boaz Yardeni (EVP of Operations & Services) and Darryl Edwards (CEO and President), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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