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| Industry | Telecommunications |
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| Headquarters | , United States |
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LotusFlare is a software development company focused on creating products for the telecommunications industry and providing SaaS products to enterprises. [1] [2] [3] The company is based in Santa Clara, California. [4]
LotusFlare was founded in June 2014 by Sam Gadodia, Terry Guo, and Shao Xia, who met while working at Facebook. [5] The initial operations were funded by a $4 million seed investment from, among others, Social Capital, Google Ventures, and Metamorphic Ventures. [6] [7]
In September 2015, the company raised a $6 million Series A investment led by Chamath Palihapitiya's firm Social Capital. [8] [1] At that time, he joined the company as the chairman of the board. [8]
Nomad is a B2C/B2B web application that allows users to purchase eSIM] products. It was originally targeted at people traveling across international borders, but now serves a variety of target demographics. It is built on top of LotusFlare's DNO Platform. [9]
DNO Cloud is a cloud-based business support system that is designed to serve telecommunications and media service providers. [10] DNO is based on TM Forum standards, and is Gold-level certified for a number of its APIs. [11] [12]
2019: Received the Leading Lights Award as the Outstanding Digital Enablement Vendor for its Digital Network Operator platform. [13]
2020: Winner of the 2020 Leading Lights Award in the Outstanding Component Vendor category. [14]
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