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Dalus

3+ employeesSeed raised
AI-Powered Hardware System Design Software

AI-Powered Hardware System Design Software

YC W25

About the Company

At Dalus, we're building AI-powered software to reimagine how complex hardware systems are designed — think rockets, satellites, EVs, aircraft, nuclear plants.

Right now, companies building these systems are held back by legacy tools that were never built for today’s fast-paced engineering teams. We’re changing that. Our platform makes hardware development faster, safer, and more scalable, even with smaller teams. We believe that designing atoms should feel more like working with bits — and that the next industrial renaissance needs better software.

Founders

Eliot Khachi
Eliot Khachi

Co-Founder & CTO at Dalus Building the next generation of software for hardware engineers designing complex systems. Previously worked as a systems integration / test engineer at Aerojet Rocketdyne where I planned tests for a propulsion system undergoing Proof Of Design for the navy. This is where I witnessed the inefficiencies of large, siloed engineering teams firsthand. B.S. Aerospace Engineering. Software enthusiast. Autodidact.

Sebastian Völkl
Sebastian Völkl

Co-Founder/CEO @ Dalus Software to model/validate complex systems for industries like aerospace/defense I co-founded two companies in the past (one software startup -> sold it, and one hardware startup, building Brain-Computer-Interface electronics) Before starting Dalus, I was involved in a project with the European Space Agency, modeling a Greenhouse module for the Moon, where I learned firsthand how inefficient existing software for building hardware is.

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