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This founder left Silicon Valley to challenge US defense supremacy from Athens, and investors are paying attention
Delian Alliance Industries recently raised $14 million in funding to continue building its defense products, which include surveillance towers, and concealed sea drones.
Three and a half years later, his startup, Delian Alliance Industries, has set up solar-powered surveillance towers that monitor some of Greece’s borders around the clock and detect wildfires on remote islands, along with a pipeline of other products, including concealed sea drones designed to keep enemies at bay. This may seem less of a gamble today, especially as defense tech has never been hotter, but Kottas’ path to Delian has been a long work in progress, as he told this editor over a recent Zoom call. When remotely activated, it appears “out of nowhere to the enemy,” Kottas told TechCrunch, adding that Delian has patented this approach, which uses commercial materials to manufacture the weapons at “large scale and really at extremely low cost.”
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