Shop Talk: VOIP provider Alteva keeps it local, plans possible acquisitions
Alteva CEO Will Bumbernick, 35, came to Philadelphia for the same reason many men move to new cities.
“I followed a girl to Philadelphia. The girl didn’t work out, but the area did,” he says.
And did it ever. After running, and then selling, his own technology consulting firm, Bumbernick, along with engineer Mark Marquez, wanted to start a company in a new sector that relied on monthly subscriptions. Bumbernick said he was enticed bythe stability of a monthly invoice, especially after his consulting days.
The two soon founded Alteva, a company that provides voice over internet protocol (VOIP) services to over 300 small- to mid-sized businesses. And, unlike many tech companies in the Philadelphia region, they are doing it all from inside city limits.
