Dalus
Data & simulation · San Francisco, CA, US
AI-powered collaborative systems-engineering platform for modeling and validating complex hardware systems.
Requirements management, system architecture and simulation (SysML v2) for aerospace/defense/robotics teams; AI analyzes engineering docs to generate system models.
Research mapping
Physical AI / Sim-to-Real, Digital Twins & Validation (L9) / Data & simulation
Evidence boundary
Original analysis and independent corroboration remain under development. Commercial scale and durable technical advantage remain under review.
What makes it defensible
AI-native model-based systems engineering that generates SysML v2 system models from engineering documents — collapsing the requirements → architecture → verification handoff that legacy MBSE tools leave manual.
Position in the stack: Design-software layer upstream of any aerospace, defense or robotics build; defensibility is workflow gravity — once a programme's requirements and V&V live in the model, migrating is expensive — plus the AI extraction quality on messy real-world documentation.
Who buys it
Named customers: Israel Aerospace Industries (design partner)
Founding team
Sebastian Völkl — Co-founder & CEO — Co-founded Dalus in spring 2024; prior software background (legacy note: 'ex-ESA, prior software startup' not independently verified this run).
Eliot Khachi — Co-founder & CTO — Aerospace engineering; previously a test/systems engineer at Aerojet Rocketdyne (L3Harris) before leaving to start Dalus.
SourceFinancing detail
- Last round
- Seed
Investors: Y Combinator, LMNT Ventures, Maiora Rebel Ventures, Coughdrop Capital, Rebel Fund
Mapped funds and investors
Direct relationships supported by published evidence.
Reported holdings as-of
No sourced relationships mapped yet.
Disclosed investment history
| Fund / investor | Last sourced | Relationship | Evidence |
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| LMNT Ventures | participant | Source |
Showing up to four relationships in each group. ETF weights describe the fund’s portfolio, not ownership of this company. Private investment history does not establish current ownership.
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Product
Dalus changelog 2026-10-01: Requirements List/Table/Graph views, Copilot Skills and Rules, Australian data-residency region
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Product
Dalus ships Import from SysML v2 (.sysml/.kerml) with hazards, trade studies and test cases preserved (product changelog release)
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Product
Dalus ships MCP Connector (Model Context Protocol connector for Claude/Claude Code/ChatGPT) (product changelog release)
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