An ex-Apple engineer just raised $14 million for his own defense startup, which borrows a key strategy from Apple and Tesla

An ex-Apple engineer just raised $14 million for his own defense startup, which borrows a key strategy from Apple and Tesla

Delian Alliance Industries, founded by former Apple engineer Dimitrios Kottas, announced Tuesday it’s raised $14 million in Series A funding to accelerate production of its affordable and autonomous defense systems. Kottas, who spent five years working in Apple’s secretive robotics lab, said he applied many learnings from his time in Silicon Valley to his four-year-old defense startup. Dimitrios Kottas spent years at Apple working in its secreti…