David Netten

Background

About David Netten

Making connectivity invisibleI co-founded Simbase so product teams could light up global fleets of devices as easily as spinning up an AWS instance. Today 1 million+ sensors—from cold-chain trackers to retail POS terminals run on our contract-free, pay-per-use platform in 100+ countries.What I do as CTO• Built a single pane-of-glass platform where teams can enable, disable, and troubleshoot every (e)SIM in seconds. No ticket queues, no batch files.• Negotiated pay-per-use rates that beat industry averages by 30–50 %, so even early-stage hardware startups can afford to ship worldwide from day one.• Release new features every week. From smarter data-cap alerts to zero-touch eSIM swaps, because “finished” is never how connectivity works.• Maintain 99.99 % uptime across 100+ networks, backed by automatic multi-IMSI failover and 24/7 on-call engineering (yes, humans).Wins I’m proud of• Launched the “10 for 10” plan—10 GB for $10—slashing entry costs by 75 %• Integrated with 10+ Tier-1 carriers, lifting coverage to 99 % of the planet (Antarctica is next )• Evolved a scrappy prototype into an affordable, best-in-class IoT platform powering companies worldwide