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Elisa UP makes it easy for startups to build partnerships with Elisa. Together we can reshape the industry!

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What we offer

Intense growth

Expansion to European telcos.

Predictable sales

Growth support. PoC with Estionian and/or Finnish market.

Unsustainable sales

Automatic billing, sales and proccesses

No Sales

Idea and market validation. Mentoring. Help with pricing, marketing and billing. Connecting with investors network

Let's make innovation happen together!

If you already have an MVP, then we'd like to hear from you.
We believe that collaboration is a key element in all great success stories.
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Elisa is more than just a telco

In the telecom industry, innovation is what keeps us competitive. The industrial model and the way we work is changing, so we have to and we want to be more dynamic and creative. Let’s think globally, act more personally and use technology more efficiently!

Elisa Up (previously Elisa Startup Partnerships Team) was founded in 2017. However, Elisa had been cooperating with startups for many years before that. Right now Elisa has over 100 ongoing partnerships with startups.

The types of business we are looking for

Our mission in Elisa is to create a sustainable future through digitalization. One way to do it is through developing new products and services in together with startups and scaleups.

We are interested in tracking, digital entertainment, sustainability, wellness, IT services, 5G services... and more. If you feel you have a good collaboration idea in mind which does not fit into any named categories, do not worry - we are open to all business discussions. When you have at least a minimum viable product ready, contact us, and let’s see how we can join our forces!

Have we done it before? yes

1oT

1oT has licensed the most cost-efficient M2M SIM and eSIM management platform to Elisa.

Together with Elisa, 1oT is developing the best user experience for Elisa’s M2M clients for managing their connectivity. This includes:

- providing them with an intuitive platform for subscription management,
- monitoring data usage,
- having the ultimate control of their SIM cards.

1oT is a carrier independent 2G, 3G, 4G, NB-IoT, & LTE-M connectivity provider for global IoT service providers.

Paytailor

Paytailor offers commerce software platform for e-commerce, IoT and mobile payments. Their mission is to connect businesses with clients through cloud technology.

In cooperation with Elisa, Paytailor is providing carrier billing and IoT connection to business clients. Paytailor appreciates Elisa’s agility and open minded approach to make innovation happen.

Xplora

Xplora produces children’s first phone, which is designed for children and has limited access to the internet and no access to inappropriate content.

In Elisa and Xplora partnership, Elisa offers mobile network access in Finland for Xplora devices, enabling that using the subscription and guardian applications costs only a few euros per month, as well as that parents can easily reach their children with Elisa’s high-quality network access.

Elisa also onboarded Xplora children phone to Elisa web shop, aiming to be one of the leading sales channels for the product.

Kjetil Fennefoss, CEO of Xplora Mobile commented, ‘it seems that people at Elisa share our excitement for our mobile phone and services. Xplora benefits from being a MVNO on the best mobile network in Finland’.

OnePlus

Nowadays OnePlus is a giant smartphone manufacturer and global leader in the smartphone industry, but back in the day it was a startup when partnering with Elisa.

Elisa partnered with OnePlus in May 2016 to become their first retail partner in Europe and a big part of OnePlus’ international growth story. 3 months after launching, OnePlus phone became the number one selling in Finland, and nowadays still among Elisa’s best-selling phones. Elisa’s partnership journey with OnePlus continues.

OnePlus is focused on bringing premium products and the best user experience possible to fans around the world. We’re very happy to bring OnePlus products to Finland in partnership with Elisa, said by David Sanmartin, Head of Marketing (Europe) for OnePlus.

Varjo

Varjo created the world’s first human-eye resolution VR/AR/XR headsets that help professionals in the most demanding industries push the limits of what's ever been possible.

Elisa and Varjo have been collaborating to improve virtual reality experience to meet a whole new standard. In Slush 2019, Elisa and Varjo showcased the first time 12k virtual reality broadcast over Elisa 5G that matched the quality of human eye resolution.

Domos

Domos secure optimal Quality-of-Experience for any digital service consumed in the home. Trained machine learning algorithms are deployed on the router itself, optimizing network resources individually for each application and service without any data being shared outside the home.

Elisa and Domos co-developed Gaming First, a service that prioritize gaming traffic by slicing the home Wi-Fi network. With Gaming First, traditional CPEs can radically outperform expensive gaming routers. The service will be further developed and market tested through the collaboration.

‘Working with Elisa has been very productive and their teams are genuinely making an effort in pushing our proposition towards readiness to be introduced to the consumers’, said by Riku Rintanen, CCO of Domos.

Grundium

Xplora produces children’s first phone, which is designed for children and has limited access to the internet and no access to inappropriate content.

The Grundium Ocus is a monumental leap in digital pathology. The portable microscope slide scanner is compact and affordable enough to be on every professional's desk. With its wireless connectivity and ability to share images it is a solution to the global shortage of pathologist, making professional diagnosis available anywhere in the world.

Remote diagnosis is typically conducted during surgery and is extremely time critical, thus it is a perfect couple with 5G. Elisa and Grundium co-escalated this solution over Elisa 5G network.

Grundium CEO Mika Kuisma gives his opinion that, Elisa 5G perfectly supports the Grundium Ocus microscope whole slide scanner. Grundium is proud and honored to pilot 5G as the first medical device in the world.

Smartmile

Smartmile is a provider of robotic parcel machines for last-mile delivery. It builds the shared and sustainable city delivery network for the future, which is a perfect fit for Elisa’s mission in a sustainable future through digitalization.

Starting April 29th 2019, Elisa customers in Finland can instantly pick up phones they have ordered from Elisa’s online store in cities of Turku, Tampere, Porvoo, Kirkkonummi and Tuusula. Products are available for pick-up from robotic parcel machines instantly after being ordered online.

Changing the status quo is in our DNA at Smartmile, and it seems that people at Elisa really share the same passion. This makes the cooperation very interesting and fruitful. Working together is flexible but productive, there’s always a good vibe, said by Aku Happo, Co-Founder and CEO at Smartmile.

Geneto

Geneto is a sports and nutrition tracking app, which helps to live a healthier lifestyle.

In our cooperation, we validate what are the most essential features and help Geneto to develop the app according to the customers’ needs.

MindTitan

MindTitan is an artificial intelligence development company, founded to help companies understand and apply AI.

Together we are developing:

- Elisa’s service bot Annika
- model for Happiness index, which can assess actual network usage experiences of individual Elisa’s clients
- Facial recognition for a new and secure Mobile ID subscription process for Elisa

MyKi

MyKi is a child GPS-GSM watch, which allows parents to communicate with and monitor the location of their child via the MyKi Watch mobile app.

In our cooperation, we customized their phone app for the Estonian market.

Today, Elisa is selling their devices with the subscription to use data in the watch.

HATCH

Hatch is the cloud gaming service built for the always on, always connected 5G world, streaming rich, full-featured games and new social experiences to the screens already in your life.

Elisa, OnePlus and Hatch brought global mobile eSports to Finland. Elisa 5G Global Games Finals was played on Hatch at the Arctic Invitational on 14th Sept 2019. Winner of the final were crowned the undisputed champion of 5G mobile gaming.