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Surge

Surge is Stripe for telephony. Our team has experience building telephony software at billion dollar scale. Because of increased regulation, Twilio and other SMS APIs take weeks to onboard new customers, but we can get startups onboarded same day. Surge wins by enabling easy carrier registration, better support, and higher level APIs and no code UI components to make implementation easier for startups and developers.

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Y Combinator
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last updated
2026-07-15
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Why this company exists here

Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #20

Surge is Stripe for telephony. Our team has experience building telephony software at billion dollar scale. Because of increased regulation, Twilio and other SMS APIs take weeks to onboard new customers, but we can get startups onboarded same day. Surge wins by enabling easy carrier registration, better support, and higher level APIs and no code UI components to make implementation easier for startups and developers.

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High Signal interpretation

Surge is classified as Developer tools from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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Product facets
startupshigher level APIsstartups and developersnew customersSMS APIsno code UI componentstelephony softwarebetter support
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Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

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Companies similar to Surge

Developer tools · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

Optic

match 93

We help developers collaborate at scale and build better APIs. Optic’s open source tools makes it easy for developers to document API changes, review each other’s API changes during code review, and catch breaking changes before they reach production. **tl;dr** It’s version control but for behavior not code. We are taking the really successful ideas from Git / Code Review / CI and applying them to API descriptions and (future) other non-code artifacts. Engineers at [Snyk](https://snyk.io/) use O

shared extracted concept terms: apis, code; shared product terms: developer, scale, better, apis; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Unidentified Landed Object

match 70

A no-code platform to easily create immersive experiences for mobile & SMS marketing - ulo.io. Founder previously @ Snap Inc.

shared extracted concept terms: sms, no, code; shared product terms: experience, sms, no, code; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: Developer tools

Truffle AI

match 61

Truffle AI makes it easy for developers to integrate AI agents into any software application. We do this by exposing agents as simple APIs that can be called from anywhere. Developers have used Truffle to add customer support agents into WhatsApp and analytics agents into Slack.

shared extracted concept terms: developer; shared product terms: easy, developer, apis, customer; shared product theme: developer infrastructure, sales and marketing; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Daedalus Technologies

match 52

Developer of a no-code platform intended for algorithmic trading

shared extracted concept terms: no, code; shared product terms: developer, no, code; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: Developer tools

Codiga

match 52

Grammarly for code, helping developers write better code faster.

shared extracted concept terms: code, developer; shared product terms: code, developer, better; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: Developer tools

Pagedraw

match 45

Pagedraw turns UI drawings into code, bringing your app's look to life, and ready to deploy to production Our mission is to make programming more powerful.

shared extracted concept terms: ui, code; shared product terms: ui, code; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator