About
Named for the star that guided travellers home.
Elentári keeps industrial operations reachable past the edge of terrestrial coverage — on standard devices, under local authorisation, with data that stays in-country.
Founders
Hassun El-Zafar
CO-FOUNDER
Oguz Karasu
CO-FOUNDER
Stage
Pre-revenue, pre-licence, pre-seed. Guardian pilots are the current focus, and carrier and capacity discussions are live. We are not a licensed telecommunications operator.
Hiring
Three senior hires against the roadmap: network core, regulatory and carrier partnerships, and enterprise sales.
Where we are
Done, in progress, and next.
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
Landscape
Who else is in this, and what they leave on the table.
Starlink 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.
Iridium, Garmin and satellite messengers
Extra hardware to buy, charge, distribute and lose. Works, but it is a parallel fleet outside the phones and systems the workforce already uses.
VSAT and private radio
Capital and installation per location, and coverage stops at the compound fence. People and vehicles moving beyond it are still dark.
Where we fit
We do not build satellites and we do not build phones. We are the operator layer: a core network deployed inside the customer's jurisdiction, spectrum through a licensed local carrier, capacity bought wholesale, and an enterprise service — provisioning, safety operations, evidence and support — wrapped around it. That layer is regulatory and operational work, market by market, which is exactly the work constellation operators and device vendors are not set up to do.
Come and test the claim.
One site, one operational KPI. Everything else we send on request.