50 Best Network Hardware Companies to Watch in 2026

The most prominent network hardware companies ranked by global prominence, funding activity, and market position. Showing the top 50 out of 3,968 companies tracked on Fsome.

3,968
Total Companies
$45.6B
Total Funding
$11.5M
Avg Funding
New York
Top Location
# Company Location Employees Total Funding Last Round Last Funded
1
Plume Design
Plume is a SaaS platform that provides the delivery of technological services fo…
Palo Alto 501 - 1K $722.4M Series Unknown 2022-07-01
2
Ethernovia
Ethernovia is a developer of an Ethernet system that provides the next evolution…
San Jose 51 - 100 $154.0M Series B 2026-01-20
3
Orange
Orange is a telecommunication operator that provides network management and digi…
Issy-les-moulineaux c 10001 max $17.8B Post Ipo Debt 2026-01-06
4
Lightbits Labs
Lightbits Labs, inventors of NVMe/TCP, offer next-gen software-defined block sto…
San Jose 51 - 100 $112.8M Series Unknown 2022-06-28
5
FatPipe
FatPipe Networks is the inventor and multiple patents holders of technology that…
Salt Lake City 251 - 500 $3.0M Series C 2003-07-18
6
pgEdge
pgEdge offers distributed PostgreSQL to deliver high availability and reduced da…
Alexandria 11 - 50 $23.2M Seed 2025-03-11
7
DriveNets
DriveNets is a networking company that provides software-based routing solutions…
Ra'anana 251 - 500 $1.2B Secondary Market 2025-07-17
8
SiPearl
SiPearl designs European high-performance energy-efficient processors for superc…
Maisons-laffitte 101 - 250 $154.0M Series A 2025-07-08
9
Akhetonics
Akhetonics is creating the world's first all-optical XPU - a general-purpose pho…
Berlin 11 - 50 $8.6M Seed 2024-11-28
10
Gluware
Gluware is an Intelligent Network Automation platform that automates and orchest…
Sacramento 51 - 100 $43.0M Private Equity 2021-10-27
11
Zeroport
Zeroport develops hardware based secure remote access solutions that isolate net…
Herzliya 11 - 50 $10.0M Seed 2026-01-14
12
Parasail
Parasail is an AI deployment networking company that provides AI products to bui…
San Francisco 11 - 50 $10.0M Series A 2025-11-24
13
GigaIO
GigaIO develops high performance interconnect memory fabric solutions for comput…
Carlsbad 11 - 50 $40.2M Series B 2025-07-17
14
Cysic
Cysic is a blockchain company that offers zero-knowledge (ZK) hardware computati…
Jersey City 11 - 50 $12.0M Seed 2024-05-24
15
Quantum Source
Quantum Source is on a clear path to the most powerful, cost-effective, practica…
Ness Ziona 11 - 50 $77.0M Series A 2024-09-10
16
Fabric Cryptography
Fabric is a verifiable processing unit startup that develops a custom cryptograp…
San Francisco 11 - 50 $39.0M Series A 2024-08-19
17
Innovium
Innovium develops switching silicon solutions for cloud and edge data centers.
Santa Clara 251 - 500 $402.3M Series F 2020-07-21
18
Starry
Starry is an internet company that creates easy-to-use Wi-Fi products and radica…
Boston 251 - 500 $410.0M Post Ipo Debt 2021-10-07
19
The Linksys Group
The Linksys Group provider of home networking products.
Irvine 501 - 1K $75.0M Corporate Round 2021-03-22
20
WIOCC Group
WIOCC Group operates as a provider of open-access digital infrastructure focusin…
Ebène 251 - 500 $65.0M Debt Financing 2025-12-15
21
Digi International
Digi International is a global provider of IoT connectivity products, services, …
Minnetonka 501 - 1K $250.0M Post Ipo Debt 2023-12-11
22
I
Io
Io develops AI-powered devices that reimagine how users interact with technology…
San Francisco 51 - 100 Seed 2025-01-21
23
CoreTigo
CoreTigo enables faster & flexible manufacturing with high-performance industria…
Netanya 11 - 50 $66.0M Series B 2023-06-28
24
Great Sky
Great Sky combines photonics, superconductors, and semiconductors. to develop AI…
Boulder 1 - 10 $17.0M Seed 2026-03-14
25
Congruex
Congruex provides digital network design and build services for modern infrastru…
Boulder 1K - 5K $141.4M Series Unknown 2024-08-16
26
Csquared
CSquared builds metro fiber and Wi-Fi networks to help local providers connect m…
Nairobi 101 - 250 $125.0M Series Unknown 2023-11-13
27
QMC Telecom
QMC Telecom provides tower for carriers that offer wireless cellular telecommuni…
São Paulo 51 - 100 $703.5M Debt Financing 2025-09-22
28
Aerwave
Aerwave is a reimagined WiFi connectivity experience for both residents and prop…
Dallas 51 - 100 $40.0M Series B 2024-09-17
29
Silver Peak Systems, Inc.
Global SD-WAN Market Leader
Santa Clara 251 - 500 $175.9M Private Equity 2018-06-26
30
AirVine Scientific
AirVine Scientific improves the way indoor network infrastructures are deployed,…
Santa Clara 11 - 50 $18.2M Series A 2024-03-25
31
XINYI Information Technology Ltd
XINYI Information Technology Ltd is an IoT chip start-up company that focuses on…
Shanghai 51 - 100 $155.6M Series C 2023-03-17
32
Welinq
Welinq is a quantum computing solution interconnecting processors.
Paris 11 - 50 $5.4M Seed 2024-07-15
33
Breezeline
Breezeline are a socially responsible company committed to making our world a be…
Quincy 1K - 5K $15.2M Grant 2023-05-12
34
Qorvo
Qorvo ("kor-vo") enables customers to launch next-generation designs even faster…
Greensboro 5K - 10K $350.0M Post Ipo Equity 2025-01-16
35
Pluribus Networks
Pluribus Networks is a leader in open networking and next generation software de…
Santa Clara 51 - 100 $137.0M Series Unknown 2021-10-07
36
CityFibre
CityFibre operates as an independent provider of fiber infrastructure in seconda…
London 1K - 5K $11.5B Debt Financing 2025-07-11
37
Link Labs
Link Labs offers an end-to-end IoT platform for tagging, locating, and monitorin…
Annapolis 11 - 50 $17.2M Series Unknown 2022-10-07
38
Chillblast
Chillblast designs and builds custom PCs, gaming rigs, and workstations.
Poole 101 - 250 $14.1M Series Unknown 2025-07-25
39
Infoblox
Infoblox develops network identity solutions enabling businesses to automate net…
Santa Clara 1K - 5K $53.0M Private Equity 2020-09-08
40
Yunxi Technology
Yunxi Technology is an enterprise digital service provider.
Hangzhou 1K - 5K $194.1M Series D 2021-10-15
41
Fleet Defender
Fleet Defender is a vehicle cybersecurity company that offers monitoring, detect…
Omaha 11 - 50 $2.3M Seed 2025-05-21
42
Talking Heads Wireless
Talking Heads Wireless is a telecommunication company that helps in energy savin…
Somerville 1 - 10 $4.9M Undisclosed 2025-11-19
43
Highland Broadband
Highland Broadband offers broadband technology services to homes and businesses.
Edinburgh 11 - 50 $105.6M Series Unknown 2025-08-15
44
KubeNet
KubeNet provides business connectivity and communication solutions.
Glasgow 11 - 50 $3.1M Private Equity 2025-03-24
45
ARPA Network
ARPA Network is a decentralized computing network designed to improve the fairne…
Beijing 11 - 50 $6.0M Series Unknown 2024-05-30
46
TowerCo of Africa
TowerCo of Africa is a tower infrastructure company that provide innovative and …
Ebène 101 - 250 $70.0M Debt Financing 2024-05-20
47
VLNComm
Light-Based Wireless Connectivity
Charlottesville 11 - 50 $5.7M Series Unknown 2018-04-10
48
nCompass Technologies
nCompass Technologies enables fast and unlimited deployment of LLMs.
San Francisco 1 - 10 $500K Pre Seed 2024-04-03
49
Spero Analytics
Monitor anything, anywhere, all the time using Spero's off-the-grid wireless mes…
Toronto 1 - 10 $461K Grant 2025-12-16
50
Kelp DAO
Kelp DAO is intended to provide liquidity to illiquid assets put on restaking pl…
Bengaluru 11 - 50 $9.0M Initial Coin Offering 2024-05-22