FreedomFi is an open-source wireless infrastructure company that built Helium-compatible LTE and 5G gateways for community-deployed mobile networks, later acquired by Nova Labs in August 2022. FreedomFi's Twitter Score is 8.4 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #106,844 among 483,652 tracked accounts.
FreedomFi was co-founded by Boris Renski [LINK /twitter/zer0tweets/] as CEO and Joey Padden as CTO. The company developed hardware and software enabling operators to deploy small-cell CBRS networks that connected to the Helium Network, with compatible deployments earning MOBILE tokens and gateway LoRa connectivity eligible to mine HNT. FreedomFi also partnered with Baicells to certify small-cell products for plug-and-play compatibility with its software, and reached an agreement with Dish Network to pilot offloading mobile traffic onto its equipment.
FreedomFi was a significant code contributor to Project Magma, an open-source mobile network core project managed by the Linux Foundation. The company raised a $9.5 million Series A round on March 15, 2022, backed by Blueyard Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, and Samsung Next. Following the acquisition by Nova Labs in August 2022, the FreedomFi team joined Nova Labs to help lead the Helium Network's mobile expansion. FreedomFi has published 272 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 18 accounts a total of 77 times.
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The accounts that follow FreedomFi include 42 founders, 12 angel investors, 16 influencers and 2 VCs, among them Kyle Samani, Austin Federa, Tushar Jain, Vinny Lingham, Guy Wuollet and Helium.