The company's portfolio includes the United Kingdom, the United States, the European Union, China, Canada, and South Korea, among others.

Founded at the University of Southampton in 2016, AccelerComm has built its portfolio in close alignment with the 3GPP New Radio standardization process, in which it has been an active collaborator. Its patents protect innovations that not only meet standards but have already been deployed at scale, supporting more than 200 commercial and licensed satellites from leading silicon suppliers.

“Every patent in our portfolio protects technology that has been proven not only in laboratory simulations, but also in hardware and in orbit,” said David Helfgott, CEO of AccelerComm. “That combination of expertise, silicon integration, and flight track record gives our customers—from chipset vendors to prime satellite contractors—a solid and defensible technical foundation as they build next-generation non-terrestrial networks in space.”

This milestone comes amid a period of sustained commercial and ecosystem momentum for the company, as the convergence of terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks accelerates.

In January 2026, AccelerComm was selected to participate in Airbus' UpNext SpaceRAN demonstrator, contributing its 5G physical layer solution for onboard signal processing in software-defined satellites. The program is exploring how regenerative satellite architectures can offer full 5G base station functionality in orbit, rather than simply acting as "bent-pipe" signal repeaters for ground stations.

AccelerComm's role focuses on enabling high-performance, low-power physical layer processing under the constraints of space systems, where size, weight, and power (SWaP) requirements are critical. Its proprietary hardware acceleration techniques are designed to deliver significantly higher performance than software-only approaches while maintaining the efficiency required for satellite deployment.

This work is part of a broader industry movement toward fully integrated, standards-based NTN networks capable of delivering both broadband and massive IoT services from space. In March 2026, AccelerComm and Radisys expanded their collaboration to support both NB-IoT NTN and NR-NTN within a unified, 3GPP-compliant platform, enabling operators to address a wider range of connectivity use cases within a single architecture.

AccelerComm's continued innovation is also supported by strong investor backing. The company closed a £13.1 million Series B funding round in June 2025, led by IP Group with participation from IQ Capital, Swisscom Ventures, Bloc Ventures, Hostplus, and Parkwalk Advisors, bringing its total funding raised to approximately $52.8 million.

“The accumulation of 56 granted patents reflects the commercialization of more than a decade of research in channel coding and physical layer hardware acceleration,” said Professor Rob Maunder, founder and chief technology officer of AccelerComm. “These patents protect technology that is already in operation in live satellite networks, within 5G chipsets, and in the global standards that define how these systems interact. This provides strong validation of the approach we have taken from the outset.”.