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Startup · United Kingdom

Delian Alliance Industries

HQ London, United KingdomFounded 202111-50 employees

Defense autonomy and navigation technology for unmanned systems. Selected for NATO DIANA’s 2026 cohort.

Website

Funding4 rounds · ~$21.6M

Equity raised
~$21.6M
Debt, secondaries & grants
~$117K
Latest
~$117KGrant · Dec 10, 2025
Cumulative raised$21.6M
Oct 4, 2022Jul 29, 2025

Raised counts equity rounds; debt, secondary sales and grants are totaled separately. Amounts in other currencies are converted at the announcement month's average rate. A ~ marks an estimated or converted amount.

Systems1

Osiris

An autonomous attritable GNSS‑Navigation module for UAVs providing low‑cost, easy‑to‑integrate alt‑navigation.

Maturity not rated

Newest unveiled first. Open a system for its milestone timeline, components and sources.

Capabilities3

  • Developer
    classify_sectors run 37, haiku, taxonomy 2026-10-18b: Described as defense autonomy and navigation for unmanned systems, selected for NATO DIANA's 2026 cohort.
    —Reported
  • Developer
    classify_sectors run 37, haiku, taxonomy 2026-10-18b: Described as defense autonomy and navigation for unmanned systems, selected for NATO DIANA's 2026 cohort.
    —Reported
  • Developer
    classify_sectors run 37, haiku, taxonomy 2026-10-18b: Described as defense autonomy and navigation for unmanned systems, selected for NATO DIANA's 2026 cohort.
    —Reported

Maturity and TRL describe this organization's work; the field-wide maturity is on each technology's page.

People
PersonRole
Dimitrios KottasFounder and CEO

Hiring Observations3 observed listings

A sample of observed listings, not a total vacancy count. Availability may have changed since collection. Categories are inferred from job titles.

Company Metrics

LinkedIn employee profiles
42
Observed Oct 5, 2026
Bright Data / LinkedIn · Source ↗
LinkedIn followers
12,469
Observed Oct 5, 2026
Bright Data / LinkedIn · Source ↗

Employee-profile counts reflect LinkedIn profiles associated with the company, not verified headcount. One observation establishes a baseline; it does not establish growth.

Sources19

Show all 19 sources and supporting evidence

Profile3

  1. 1

    cbinsights.com · Supports Organization · kind

    “Delian Alliance Industries has raised”
  2. 2

    Delian Alliance Industries · Supports Organization · name

    “Delian Alliance Industries”
  3. 3

    Crunchbase · Supports Organization · x url

    “x_url: https://x.com/delian_ai”

Systems1

  1. 4

    Delian Alliance Industries · Supports System

    “## Osiris ###### Autonomous attritable GNSS-Navigation Module”

Funding10

  1. 5

    Fortune · Jul 30, 2025 · Supports Funding round

    “announced Tuesday it’s raised $14 million in Series A funding”
  2. 6

    Marathon Venture Capital · Jul 29, 2025 · Supports Funding round

    “The round was also joined by repeat backers 201 Ventures, HCVC, Entropy Industrial Capital, and new investor Nebular.”
  3. 7

    Air Street Press · Jul 29, 2025 · Supports Funding round · amount, Organization · ownership

    “Air Street has co-led a $14M Series A into Delian Alliance Industries”
  4. 8

    In AI Today · Oct 19, 2023 · Supports Funding round · amount

    “announced its €6 million seed round, led by Air Street Capital”
  5. 9

    Air Street Press · Oct 18, 2023 · Supports Funding round

    “Today, we’re proud to lead the seed round for Lambda Automata”
  6. 10

    Marathon Venture Capital · Oct 4, 2022 · Supports Funding round

    “Marathon proudly led the seed round of Lambda Automata.”
  7. 11

    PitchBook · Supports Funding round · amount

    “1\. Seed Round | 28-Oct-2021 | $1.28M”
  8. 12

    Crunchbase · Supports Funding round

    “Grant - Delian Alliance Industries”
  9. 13

    NATO DIANA · Supports Funding round, Organization

    “Delian Alliance Industries”
  10. 14

    Tectonic · Supports Funding round · amount

    “the first stage gives selected startups €100K in non-dilutive funding”

People1

  1. 15

    Supports Organization, Role

    “Dimitrios Kottas, founder and CEO of Delian Alliance Industries.”

Other4

  1. 16

    LinkedIn via Bright Data · Supports Organization · company size, Organization · country, Organization · founded, Organization · headquarters, Organization · logo, Organization · url, Organization metric · employees in linkedin, Organization metric · followers

    “{"company_size": "11-50 employees"}”
  2. 17

    LinkedIn via Bright Data · Supports Job posting · job listing

    “{"company_id": "75599863", "company_name": "Delian Alliance Industries", "company_url": "https://uk.linkedin.com/company/delian-ai?trk=public_jobs_topcard-org-name", "job_employment_type": "Full-time", "job_location": "Kyiv, Kyiv City, Ukraine", "job_posted_time": "1 month ago", "job_posting_id": "4458769509", "job_seniority_level": "Entry level", "job_summary": "Integration Engineer (UAV Platforms) / Інженер з інтеграції БпЛА (БПЛА) About The Role We build Osiris, an optical navigation module for unmanned aircraft. Our customers are UAV manufacturers and operators who need Osiris flying on their own airframes, quickly and reliably. You are the person who makes that happen. You will take Osiris from a box on a bench to a working, calibrated, flight-tested module on a customer's fixed-wing aircraft. That means handling the mechanical fit, the wiring, the flight controller configuration, and the testing that proves it works. When a unit comes back faulty, you are also the person who finds out why and fixes it. This is a hands-on role. You will spend your time with hardware, a laptop, and a soldering iron, not in a design review. Expect regular travel within Ukraine to customer facilities and test sites. In this role you'll get to: Integrate Osiris onto customer UAV platforms: mechanical mounting, power, wiring harnesses, and data links to the flight controller. Configure and tune ArduPilot (and other flight stacks) for correct interoperation with Osiris: MAVLink routing, serial port and telemetry setup, parameter configuration, failsafe behaviour. Calibrate Osiris units (optical and sensor calibration) and validate system performance on the bench and in flight. Diagnose and repair faulty units in the field and on the bench: fault finding, cable and connector repair, module replacement, and verification that the unit meets spec afterwards. Join ground and flight test campaigns and analyse the results on site: pull and review ArduPilot and Osiris logs between flights. Give the customer and our engineering team clear, immediate feedback during testing, not days later: what worked, what did not, and what is causing it Diagnose issues down to the root cause, whether that is a loose connector, an EMI problem, a parameter, or a software bug. Produce test reports after each campaign: what was flown, what the logs show, what failed and why, in a form the customer and our engineers can both use. Act as the technical point of contact for customer engineering teams: answer questions, train their staff, and write clear integration guides and wiring documentation. Feed field findings back to our engineering team so the product gets easier to integrate over time. Prepare and maintain integration kits, cabling, and test equipment. Must have requirements: Languages: Fluent Ukrainian and working English. You will read English technical documentation daily and communicate with an international engineering team. ArduPilot: Practical understanding of ArduPilot/PX4. You have configured a flight controller, set parameters, worked with MAVLink, and read a flight log. Electronics: Solid grasp of practical electronics. Comfortable with schematics, connectors, power distribution, serial interfaces (UART, I²C, SPI, Ethernet), and using a multimeter and oscilloscope to find a fault. Repair and calibration: Able to calibrate a device against a documented procedure and to repair one when it fails. That means soldering, cable and connector repair, board swaps, and tracing a fault to the part causing it. Linux: Basic working knowledge. SSH into a device, navigate the filesystem, read logs, edit config files, run scripts. You do not need to be a systems engineer, but the command line should not slow you down. Log analysis: Able to open a flight log and read it, not just collect it. You can spot a bad sensor, a mis-set parameter, or a control problem from the data, and do it on a laptop in the field between flights, not only back at the office. Tooling: Confident using AI assistants (Claude, Claude Code) and a modern IDE as part of daily work. You will use them to dig through logs, write throwaway analysis scripts, understand unfamiliar code, and turn field results into readable reports. We expect you to use these tools well, not to work around them. Methodical, evidence-driven troubleshooting and a habit of documenting what you did. Willingness to travel to customer sites and field locations within Ukraine. Nice to have: Hands-on fixed-wing UAV experience: building, repairing, or flying them. Optics and camera experience: lens selection, focus, distortion, and camera calibration. Experience with single-board computers (Raspberry Pi, Jetson) and Docker. Basic Python for test scripting and log analysis (e.g. pymavlink). CAD or 3D printing for mounts and brackets. Prior work with defence or industrial customers. About Delian We live under a new world order. To protect Europe and its allies we're building a new defense prime. One tailored for the era of autonomous warfare. While building for the future, our culture emulates the defense industry's roots: mass scale; operational excellence; execution speed; rapid technology adoption. To strive for this we combine expertise in autonomy, electronic warfare and rapid manufacturing. Paired with young, passionate and mission driven engineering and technical talent. We have offices in London, Kyiv, and Athens. Show more Show less", "job_title": "Integration Engineer (UAV Platforms)", "timestamp": "2026-10-05T05:42:41.469Z"}”
  3. 18

    LinkedIn via Bright Data · Supports Job posting · job listing

    “{"company_id": "75599863", "company_name": "Delian Alliance Industries", "company_url": "https://uk.linkedin.com/company/delian-ai?trk=public_jobs_topcard-org-name", "job_employment_type": "Full-time", "job_location": "Lviv, Lviv, Ukraine", "job_posted_time": "1 week ago", "job_posting_id": "4471106906", "job_seniority_level": "Entry level", "job_summary": "Integration Engineer (UAV Platforms) / Інженер з інтеграції БпЛА (БПЛА) About The Role We build Osiris, an optical navigation module for unmanned aircraft. Our customers are UAV manufacturers and operators who need Osiris flying on their own airframes, quickly and reliably. You are the person who makes that happen. You will take Osiris from a box on a bench to a working, calibrated, flight-tested module on a customer's fixed-wing aircraft. That means handling the mechanical fit, the wiring, the flight controller configuration, and the testing that proves it works. When a unit comes back faulty, you are also the person who finds out why and fixes it. This is a hands-on role. You will spend your time with hardware, a laptop, and a soldering iron, not in a design review. Expect regular travel within Ukraine to customer facilities and test sites. In this role you'll get to: Integrate Osiris onto customer UAV platforms: mechanical mounting, power, wiring harnesses, and data links to the flight controller. Configure and tune ArduPilot (and other flight stacks) for correct interoperation with Osiris: MAVLink routing, serial port and telemetry setup, parameter configuration, failsafe behaviour. Calibrate Osiris units (optical and sensor calibration) and validate system performance on the bench and in flight. Diagnose and repair faulty units in the field and on the bench: fault finding, cable and connector repair, module replacement, and verification that the unit meets spec afterwards. Join ground and flight test campaigns and analyse the results on site: pull and review ArduPilot and Osiris logs between flights. Give the customer and our engineering team clear, immediate feedback during testing, not days later: what worked, what did not, and what is causing it Diagnose issues down to the root cause, whether that is a loose connector, an EMI problem, a parameter, or a software bug. Produce test reports after each campaign: what was flown, what the logs show, what failed and why, in a form the customer and our engineers can both use. Act as the technical point of contact for customer engineering teams: answer questions, train their staff, and write clear integration guides and wiring documentation. Feed field findings back to our engineering team so the product gets easier to integrate over time. Prepare and maintain integration kits, cabling, and test equipment. Must have requirements: Languages: Fluent Ukrainian and working English. You will read English technical documentation daily and communicate with an international engineering team. ArduPilot: Practical understanding of ArduPilot/PX4. You have configured a flight controller, set parameters, worked with MAVLink, and read a flight log. Electronics: Solid grasp of practical electronics. Comfortable with schematics, connectors, power distribution, serial interfaces (UART, I²C, SPI, Ethernet), and using a multimeter and oscilloscope to find a fault. Repair and calibration: Able to calibrate a device against a documented procedure and to repair one when it fails. That means soldering, cable and connector repair, board swaps, and tracing a fault to the part causing it. Linux: Basic working knowledge. SSH into a device, navigate the filesystem, read logs, edit config files, run scripts. You do not need to be a systems engineer, but the command line should not slow you down. Log analysis: Able to open a flight log and read it, not just collect it. You can spot a bad sensor, a mis-set parameter, or a control problem from the data, and do it on a laptop in the field between flights, not only back at the office. Tooling: Confident using AI assistants (Claude, Claude Code) and a modern IDE as part of daily work. You will use them to dig through logs, write throwaway analysis scripts, understand unfamiliar code, and turn field results into readable reports. We expect you to use these tools well, not to work around them. Methodical, evidence-driven troubleshooting and a habit of documenting what you did. Willingness to travel to customer sites and field locations within Ukraine. Nice to have: Hands-on fixed-wing UAV experience: building, repairing, or flying them. Optics and camera experience: lens selection, focus, distortion, and camera calibration. Experience with single-board computers (Raspberry Pi, Jetson) and Docker. Basic Python for test scripting and log analysis (e.g. pymavlink). CAD or 3D printing for mounts and brackets. Prior work with defence or industrial customers. About Delian We live under a new world order. To protect Europe and its allies we're building a new defense prime. One tailored for the era of autonomous warfare. While building for the future, our culture emulates the defense industry's roots: mass scale; operational excellence; execution speed; rapid technology adoption. To strive for this we combine expertise in autonomy, electronic warfare and rapid manufacturing. Paired with young, passionate and mission driven engineering and technical talent. We have offices in London, Kyiv, and Athens. Show more Show less", "job_title": "Integration Engineer (UAV Platforms)", "timestamp": "2026-10-05T05:42:41.673Z"}”
  4. 19

    LinkedIn via Bright Data · Supports Job posting · job listing

    “{"company_id": "75599863", "company_name": "Delian Alliance Industries", "company_url": "https://uk.linkedin.com/company/delian-ai?trk=public_jobs_topcard-org-name", "job_employment_type": "Full-time", "job_location": "Athens, Attiki, Greece", "job_posted_time": "1 week ago", "job_posting_id": "4472083387", "job_seniority_level": "Mid-Senior level", "job_summary": "At Delian, we build technology that has to work when it matters most. Osiris, our GPS-denied navigation product, is at the heart of that mission, and we're looking for an Engineering Program Manager to lead it from the lab to the field. In this role you'll get to: Drive field operations and customer integrations end to end, from kickoff through successful deployment. Partner closely with software and supply chain teams to align priorities, surface risks early, and keep schedules on track. Ensure the right hardware, software, and people come together at the right time, every time. Bring clarity to complex, fast-moving programs and communicate crisply with engineers, leadership, and customers. Travel regularly to client sites and lead hands-on problem solving on the ground. What we're looking for Proven experience managing engineering programs involving hardware and software integration. A track record of delivering in dynamic environments with competing priorities. Exceptional work ethic, a bias for action, and a deep sense of ownership. Strong communication skills and the confidence to lead cross-functional teams. Willingness to travel frequently to customer sites. Experience with UAVs is a strong plus. Location: Athens, with regular travel to client sites. About Delian We live under a new world order. To protect Europe and its allies we're building a new defense prime. One tailored for the era of autonomous warfare. While building for the future, our culture emulates the defense industry's roots: mass scale; operational excellence; execution speed; rapid technology adoption. To strive for this we combine expertise in autonomy, electronic warfare and rapid manufacturing. Paired with young, passionate and mission driven engineering and technical talent. We have offices in London, Kyiv, and Athens. Show more Show less", "job_title": "Engineering Program Manager", "timestamp": "2026-10-05T05:42:43.702Z"}”

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