We are pleased to share that Delphi Data Labs has signed the second year of a potential three-year grant agreement under the FFG Basisprogramm in February. This continued support from Austria's Federal Research Promotion Agency validates the direction of our work and gives us the resources to push significantly further.
Our core mission has not changed: we are building a knowledge graph-based industrial market intelligence platform that structures the chaos of global industrial markets and brings transparency where opacity has long been the default.
What changes in Year Two
The focus of our second research year is the integration of financial and commodity market data into our proprietary taxonomy and ontology. Industrial markets do not exist in isolation from capital flows and commodity price dynamics - yet most intelligence platforms treat them as separate worlds. We are connecting them.
Combined with our techno-economic models and rich geodata layer, this integration unlocks capabilities that were previously out of reach. Two examples illustrate the potential: regionalized synthetic price indices for low-carbon fuels, and areal risk assessment of large industrial capex projects. Both require the kind of structured, cross-domain reasoning that a well-built knowledge graph enables - and that traditional market research simply cannot deliver at scale.
On the geodata front, we are expanding the knowledge graph to connect over 130,000 industrial assets with real-world, real-time information flows. This is not a static database. It is a living representation of how industrial infrastructure operates, shifts, and evolves.
Improved forecasting across different end-market segments is another key research area for this year. Better structure leads to better predictions - and we intend to prove that systematically.
What's next
We completed the move to our first own office in Vienna, and will also be moving into larger offices in Graz in the next weeks, with additional exciting news to share soon. More on that when the time is right.
We believe deeply that the industrial economy deserves the same quality of data infrastructure that financial markets have enjoyed for decades. Year two brings us meaningfully closer to that goal, and we are grateful to the FFG and our growing client base for making this work possible.