Invest in keeping people connected
MeshSat is seeking €300,000 in early-stage investment to grow a civilian communications business built around a working open-source platform.
When internet and mobile networks fail, or never reached a place to begin with, people may still have local radio, mesh networks, satellite connections or other ways to communicate. MeshSat connects supported systems so messages can move between them.
We’re looking for an angel investor who shares our mission and wants to help turn this technology into a sustainable business.
The problem
In a crisis, communications do not always disappear everywhere at once. One team may still have radio, another a mesh network, and a coordination point a satellite connection. The problem is that those systems often cannot exchange messages with each other.
That leaves information stuck where it was created, when the people who need it may be somewhere else.
What MeshSat does
MeshSat is an open-source routing layer that connects supported communications systems, including local radio, Meshtastic mesh, satellite, SMS and IP-based services.
A message can enter through one supported connection and leave through another, according to the configuration and routing rules chosen for the deployment.
The platform can run on a customer’s own hardware. MeshSat Hub is optional and can be hosted by the customer or used as a managed service.
What we have built
MeshSat is at an early commercial stage, with working software, prototype hardware and demonstrated messaging paths.
- Two V1 field-kit prototypes: modular Raspberry Pi-based kits that connect selected radios, mesh and satellite equipment.
- MSC-2: a portable node designed to give a team access to mesh and satellite messaging.
- MeshSat Hub: a live service for managing devices and messages, also available for self-hosting.
- Apps: MeshSat Android and iOS apps are available through their respective app stores.
We have demonstrated messages travelling over real satellite connections, including outdoor tests: a handheld message that reached a satellite and received a reply, and a phone-to-satellite round trip through the MSC-2.
The tests are recorded in the MSC-2 test record and on docs.meshsat.net.
MeshSat has also received support from SIDN fonds for work on practical emergency communications.
The hardware remains at prototype stage and has not yet been used in a real emergency.
From the idea to today
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Who it is for
MeshSat is designed for civilian organisations that need communications across different systems:
- Municipalities and emergency-support points.
- Civilian and volunteer search-and-rescue teams.
- Fire, medical and civil-protection organisations.
- Humanitarian organisations and NGOs.
- Critical-infrastructure operators.
- Mission-compatible communications integrators.
- Remote communities and outdoor teams.
A portable node, a field kit and a multi-site installation solve different problems. We intend to configure and price each deployment around the customer’s needs.
How we reach customers
We are approaching civilian communications integrators and the organisations responsible for emergency preparedness: municipalities, safety regions, NGOs and emergency services. SAFER/TOGETHER is our campaign for emergency support points, where MeshSat can help people exchange messages when ordinary networks are unavailable.
How MeshSat earns money
The software is open source. The business is built around the products and services organisations need to put it to work:
- Configured hardware: portable nodes and field kits.
- Tailored deployments: equipment and configurations for individual teams or multiple sites.
- Engineering and integration: connecting supported systems and developing solutions with civilian partners.
- Exercise days and training: facilitated use of MeshSat during an organisation’s own exercise.
- Managed services: supported MeshSat Hub hosting and related services.
MeshSat is currently pre-revenue. The investment is intended to help the team develop these offers, reach customers and deliver the first paid projects.
Our mission is non-negotiable
MeshSat is built for civilians, not warfare.
We do not work with organisations that develop, produce, integrate or operate weapon systems, and we do not provide MeshSat for use in a weapon system. This applies to customers, partners and investment, with organisations assessed together with their group.
Our mission includes humanitarian relief, civilian search and rescue, disaster response, fire and medical services, municipalities and critical-infrastructure resilience.
The team
Kyriakos Papadopoulos
Founder and lead engineer
Kyriakos is an infrastructure engineer in networks, systems and security. He has worked in network and systems roles at Adyen, Médecins Sans Frontières, SWIFT and ESA/ESTEC, including humanitarian infrastructure, and runs his own anycast network across five countries. He leads MeshSat’s engineering.
Elli Zafeiridou Georgiadou
Co-founder and project manager
Elli has more than ten years of coordinating events and programmes. She spent six years (2018 to 2024) on Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps work: logistics, partners in 18 countries, budgets and EU reporting. She grew from volunteer to board member of a non-profit arts hub in Thessaloniki. She holds MeshSat’s SIDN fonds grant and runs Elli.Z.G., the business MeshSat trades through.
George Zafeiridis
Public relations and communications
George founded the digital marketing department at DiRent A Car, where paid campaigns lifted sales by roughly 20%, and coordinated campaigns at EDA Attikis, the Athens natural-gas distributor. At Fix In Art he set up the PR and communications department and managed a team of eleven. He holds a Global MBA from the University of Derby. He leads MeshSat’s PR and communications and also sells.
What the investment will make possible
We are seeking €300,000 in early-stage investment to let the three founders work full-time on MeshSat and build the business around the platform.
The funding is intended to support:
- Engineering, product refinement and customer delivery.
- Sales, campaigns and mission-compatible partnerships.
- Equipment, operating costs and working capital.
- The formation and operation of a Dutch BV.
We are interested in an investor who can bring relevant experience, relationships or operational insight as well as capital, and who will uphold MeshSat’s civilian mission.
MeshSat currently operates through Elli.Z.G. The proposed BV has not yet been formed.
A return aligned with the mission
We want MeshSat to become a profitable, independent business that can deliver value to its customers, founders and investors.
Possible future routes to a return include a sale to a mission-compatible buyer or an agreed buyback. The route and terms would need to be discussed; neither is guaranteed.
Start a conversation
If you invest in early-stage technology and share our vision for civilian communications, we’d like to hear from you.
We can share the business plan and financial model and talk through the technology, commercial strategy and investment proposal.