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Berlin YC W21 telecom-as-a-service enabling any brand to launch MVNO in days; $97.1M total ($73M Ribbit/Google Series B Dec 2024) serving Nubank, Wealthsimple with embedded mobile competing with Bandwidth for MVNO infrastructure.
Gigs is a Berlin, Germany-based telecom-as-a-service platform — backed by Y Combinator (W21) with $97.1 million in total funding including a $73 million Series B in December 2024 led by Ribbit Capital with Google's Gradient Ventures, Y Combinator, and Speedinvest — providing technology companies with MVNO-as-a-service infrastructure that enables any brand to launch its own wireless mobile service in days without building carrier relationships, spectrum licenses, or telecom infrastructure. Serving leading tech brands including Nubank, Wealthsimple, HR platforms, travel companies, and phone manufacturers, Gigs enables embedded connectivity as a feature — allowing businesses to offer mobile plans to their customers as a native product extension that increases retention and creates new revenue streams.
Richmond VA tobacco and nicotine (NYSE: MO) ~$9.7B net revenue FY2024; Marlboro 40%+ US cigarette share, on! oral pouch competing with Zyn, 50%+ operating margins, ABI stake, competing with Reynolds/BAT.
Altria Group, Inc. is a Richmond, Virginia-based tobacco and nicotine company — publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: MO) as an S&P 500 Consumer Staples component — manufacturing and selling cigarettes (Marlboro — the best-selling cigarette brand in the United States), smokeless tobacco (Copenhagen, Skoal, Red Seal, Husky chewing tobacco/moist snuff brands), oral nicotine pouches (on! brand), and maintaining a 10.7% ownership stake in Anheuser-Busch InBev (SABMiller acquisition consideration shares) and a 35% stake in JUUL Labs (vaping — original $12.8B investment written down to minimal value following JUUL's regulatory and litigation difficulties) through approximately 5,500 employees. In fiscal year 2024, Altria reported revenues of approximately $20.6 billion (net revenues after excise taxes approximately $9.7 billion), with the cigarette segment (Marlboro generating 40%+ US cigarette market share) contributing the majority of operating income at 50%+ adjusted operating margins — the highest margins in the consumer staples sector reflecting cigarettes' inelastic demand and regulated market structure. CEO Billy Gifford has pivoted Altria's strategy from cigarettes toward smoke-free nicotine products: the on! oral nicotine pouch (acquired full ownership of Helix Innovations in 2023, rebranding as on! to compete with Swedish Match Zyn, the dominant US oral nicotine pouch brand) represents Altria's primary nicotine product diversification vehicle as cigarette volume declines 7-8% annually through consumer quit rates and secular health awareness trends.
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