Dalus

AI-Powered Hardware System Design Software

Y CombinatorWinter 2025ActiveB2BEngineering, Product and Design

What they do

Problem

Complex hardware and mission-critical system design suffers from siloed documentation and poor requirements traceability, causing misalignment and slow, error-prone iteration.

Solution

Dalus provides AI-powered systems engineering software to model and validate complex systems while tracing requirements and extracting information from existing documentation in real time.

Who it's for

Systems engineers and engineering teams in aerospace, defense, robotics, and other mission-critical hardware organizations.

Founders

Sebastian Völkl

Founder

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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Eliot Khachi

Founder

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.