Pre-seed · £1.2m
Mobile networks cover 15% of the planet. The other 85% is where the cargo comes from.
Ore, crude and freight all start somewhere no operator will build a tower. Those sites already pay for connectivity — leased terminals, hired radios, a supervisor driving four hours to check on a crew. We replace that with an eSIM on the phones the crew already carries, over satellite capacity already in orbit.
- Spend exists today
- Remote sites buy connectivity by the terminal. We sell it by the person.
- Hardware risk: none
- No constellation, no handsets. Licensed spectrum, wholesale capacity.
- Entry wedge
- Safety and duty of care — the budget line nobody defers.
The problem
Crews leave coverage and nobody hears from them until they come back.
People go dark, assets stop reporting, and none of it is on record — while the employer still carries the duty of care. Today's answer is a satellite handset per crew: expensive, rarely carried, no data, no evidence.
Why now
The satellite became just another cell tower.
The standard changed
3GPP Release 17 put satellite access into mainstream phone chipsets. No dish, no second handset.
Capacity is for sale
LEO operators now sell direct-to-device capacity wholesale. What is missing is the operator layer.
Sovereignty is a gate
Identity, location and traffic must stay in-country. We deploy the core there by design.
Elentári is the operator layer in between: an eSIM, a core network hosted in-country, licensed carrier spectrum and wholesale satellite capacity. Not a constellation, not a rival carrier.
Where we fit
Everyone is building capacity. Nobody is being the operator.
Constellations sell capacity. Device vendors sell hardware. Neither does the licensing, residency and enterprise delivery work an industrial buyer needs — and that work is won market by market.
We start in MENA and Türkiye: large uncovered landmass, dense heavy industry, strict data-sovereignty rules. The architecture is jurisdiction-agnostic, so expansion is deployment rather than a rebuild.
Full landscape and our positionStarlink Direct to Cell
Sold through the consumer channel of a national carrier. No enterprise safety tooling, no in-country core for data residency, and no per-site operational service around it.
AST SpaceMobile
A capacity supplier, not an enterprise service. Someone still has to be the operator layer, the integrator and the accountable party for an industrial customer.
Skylo
Strongest in device and IoT enablement. Weaker on sovereign deployment, workforce safety operations and regionally licensed enterprise delivery.
Where we are
No overclaiming.
As of 30 August 2026
- Complete
Company founded
- Complete
Architecture defined
- In progress
Guardian pilot programme open
- In progress
Carrier and capacity discussions
- In progress
£1.2m pre-seed raise
- Next
Regulatory clearance in first market
- Next
Anchor customer in service
Founders
More about usHassun El-Zafar
Co-founder
Oguz Karasu
Co-founder
Two ways in.
A one-site pilot with no hardware procurement, or the pre-seed deck. Everything else we send on request.