Otaniemi · Espoo · Finland
Made in Aalto University
Auto TextBack is made by Mesensei, from Aalto University’s campus in Otaniemi, Espoo.
Accelerated in Kiuas’s 2018 batch, we are longstanding and proud members of the Aalto startup community.
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- Maker
- Mesensei Oy
- Studio
- A Grid, Otakaari 5
- Location
- Otaniemi, Espoo, Finland
About Mesensei
Solving problems, big and small
Mesensei was founded in 2016 to explore decentralised technologies in data-sensitive domains, such as innovation, healthcare and civil defence.
Most of our work is complex problem solving in uncharted technological domains.
Auto TextBack is not complex. It is simple.
It was born from Mesensei CEO Tuukka Ylälahti’s personal need to manage his time.
Enjoy!
Company highlights
- 2018Kiuas Accelerator
- 2019Airbus Critical App Challenge, winner
- 2019–2020NGI LEDGER, EU Horizon 2020 programme
- 2020European Innovation Council, Blockchains for Social Good, winner
- 2021Ruhr University Explorer Program, Innovative Cyber Security Business
- 2022Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub
- 2025–2028RESKILL, Erasmus+ EU project: platform development lead
Aalto University — Design, business and technology
Aalto University was created when three leading Finnish universities merged: the Helsinki University of Technology, the Helsinki School of Economics and the University of Art and Design Helsinki.
The idea was to break down the walls between technology, business and art, and put them under one roof to spark new ideas and entrepreneurship.
9th
In the world for art and design
QS subject rankings 2026.
2008
Aalto Design Factory
Engineers, designers and business students build real products together. Now a global network.
2009
Aalto Entrepreneurship Society
Students founded Aaltoes to make Otaniemi a home for founders.
2011
Slush
Aalto student volunteers helped grow Slush into one of the world’s biggest startup events.
2018
Kiuas
The Otaniemi founder community that grew out of student-run accelerators. Where Mesensei got its start.
Otaniemi: Cradle of Finnish technology and innovation
In 1949, the Otaniemi manor lands were granted to the Helsinki University of Technology and VTT, the national research centre, to kick-start Finland’s high-tech industry.
Finnish design legends Alvar and Aino Aalto won the competition to plan the campus, and since then the Otaniemi peninsula has been spinning out success after success.
The University of Technology’s graduates fed the workforce of the companies that made the cape their home: Neste from 1976, Nokia from 1997 through its years as the world’s biggest phone maker, and Kone.
Alongside them grew a vibrant ecosystem of startups, from mobile gaming to satellites and quantum computing. University of Technology students founded Rovio, the studio behind Angry Birds, and ICEYE puts radar satellites into orbit straight out of Aalto research.
Today the cape is also a hub for quantum technology. IQM, a 2018 spin-off from Aalto University and VTT, builds full-stack quantum computers from its Keilaniemi headquarters, with quantum software and hardware companies such as QMill and QuantrolOx right next door.
Nokia
Birthed the mobile revolution.
Helped launch GSM, with the first GSM call made in Finland in 1991.Kone
Pioneered the machine-room-less elevator with MonoSpace in 1996.
Neste
Its NEXBTL technology turns waste oils into renewable fuel.
Rovio Entertainment
Angry Birds games and movies.
Founded by HUT students in 2003.ICEYE
Radar satellites in orbit.
Spun off from Aalto research in 2014.IQM
Full-stack quantum computers.
Spun off from Aalto and VTT in 2018.
Otaniemi
— The home of Finnish design legends
Alvar Aalto planned our campus, and Aalto University carries his name.
Aalto’s design school has given the world Marimekko’s Unikko (Maija Isola) and Jokapoika shirt (Vuokko Nurmesniemi), Iittala’s glass birds and Kastehelmi (Oiva Toikka), Teema (Kaj Franck) and Ultima Thule (Tapio Wirkkala). Today it ranks 9th in the world for art and design (QS 2026).
Aalto vase · Artek
Alvar Aalto
Planned the Otaniemi campus
Unikko
Maija Isola
For Marimekko
Jokapoika shirt
Vuokko Nurmesniemi
For Marimekko
Glass birds · Kastehelmi
Oiva Toikka
For Iittala
Teema
Kaj Franck
Everyday tableware
Ultima Thule
Tapio Wirkkala
Glassware
Otaniemi: The startup ecosystem
Otaniemi runs on startups. Students started Aaltoes and Startup Sauna here, and the Aalto student crew grew Slush into one of the world’s biggest startup events. Kiuas, the Otaniemi founder community, is where Mesensei got its start, and A Grid is packed with growth companies.
- Aaltoes
- Startup Sauna
- Slush
- A Grid
- Kiuas · where Mesensei got its start
What really matters to you
Auto TextBack carries the Finnish DNA.
It’s simple and elegant. It does its job.