Delphi Data Labs has been awarded a public research and development grant from the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), with funding in the six-figure EUR range and the potential to expand to seven figures over the next three years.
This grant supports the development of our core technology: a knowledge graph architecture designed to create structured, machine-readable representations of industrial B2B markets.
What we're building
Our graph data model connects entities — companies, projects, technologies, facilities, contracts — with typed relationships that reflect how industrial markets actually work. A membrane supplier connects to an electrolyzer manufacturer, which connects to a hydrogen production project, which connects to an offtake partner. Each node carries structured attributes. Each edge has a source, a timestamp, and a confidence score.
This architecture is the foundation for everything we do: the Delphi dashboard, the Serapis API, and our AI-powered query tools. The FFG grant allows us to invest in the parts of this system that are hardest to build — the industrial ontologies that define what entities and relationships exist in each sector, and the entity resolution pipelines that reconcile messy, multilingual, multi-source data into canonical records.
Why it matters
We started with the global hydrogen sector because the data gaps were widest. With this funding, we're expanding the underlying architecture to support additional sectors across energy, decarbonization, and industrial technology — a path that's since taken us to 37 sectors.
The grant also positions us at the intersection of knowledge graph research and practical industrial application. Most knowledge graph work happens in academic settings or at tech companies working on general-purpose problems. Applying these techniques to specific industrial domains — where the entities, relationships, and data quality challenges are fundamentally different from web-scale knowledge graphs — is where we believe the most impactful work remains to be done.
We're grateful to the FFG for supporting this work and to the clients who are already using the results. The graph is live, it's growing, and it's the foundation everything else is built on.