Bronze
- Logo on the Mobula sponsor wall on this site
- Named in project write-ups
- A sponsor update twice a year
Partnership · 2027 season
Back the students building a submarine that talks in light.
Mobula is student-run and paid for by partners. Emitters, driver electronics, thrusters, cells, the hull itself and the water time to test it are all funded by companies who want their name attached to real engineering, and in front of the engineers doing it.
On the wall today
About the partnership - Your logo herePick a level
Tiers
Pick a level, or build your own.
These are starting points, not a menu we are rigid about. If your company works better with a component budget, a materials agreement or a deal tied to one subsystem, we will happily write it that way.
Silver
Everything in Bronze, plus:
- Logo on the hull
- Logo in test footage and competition media
Gold
ScoutDI
Everything in Silver, plus:
- Prominent placement on the hull and on team apparel
- A dedicated feature in one technical write-up
- Demo day: we bring the vessel and the drone to your office
- Named in press and competition material
Dialga is not yet VAT-registered, so invoices are currently issued without VAT. Sponsorship is a deductible marketing cost for your company, not a donation.
Why Mobula
Four reasons this is worth your budget.
- 01
An optical link nobody sells off the shelf
Mobula's 532 nm emitters and their megahertz driver circuit are being designed and built in-house, because no commercial part does this at the wavelength and rate the mission needs. Backing Mobula puts your name on genuinely novel hardware, not a kit assembly.
- 02
Engineers who own subsystems end to end
The same students design the mechanics, lay out the boards, write the firmware and tune the controllers, then graduate out of NTNU, Norway's largest engineering university. Partners get first look at them.
- 03
Visibility on an unusual machine
A faceted hull that planes and then dives, with a quadcopter living inside it, gets looked at. Your logo runs on the hull and through every photo, video and technical write-up we publish.
- 04
A genuinely hard testbed
A welded aluminium hull, pressure, saltwater, vibration and an optical path through a moving water surface push components well past datasheet-comfortable. Send us your parts and we will run them hard and tell you exactly what happened.
In kind
Money is not the only way in.
A pallet of the right material, a pressure test or an afternoon of machine time can be worth more to us than the equivalent in cash, and it earns the same recognition as a sponsorship at that value.
Materials
Aluminium plate and bar, welding consumables, thrusters, cells, sensors, optics.
Fabrication
Aluminium welding, plate cutting and forming, machining, 3D printing, pressure testing.
Electronics
PCB manufacture and assembly, connectors, scopes and test gear.
Software & cloud
CAD, CFD and simulation licences, compute credit.
Space & water
Workshop, storage, tank or dry-dock access in the Trondheim area.
Introductions
A word from you opens doors at suppliers, yards and test facilities that a student email does not.
Transparency
Where sponsorship actually goes.
Sponsorship goes into hardware, fabrication and getting the vessel to water. The categories below are where the budget actually sits.
- 01Hull & pressure structureAluminium plate, welding, sealing, hatch mechanism, buoyancy and ballast
- 02Optical link532 nm emitters, driver electronics, PCB runs, optical bench time
- 03Propulsion & powerThrusters, motor controllers, Li-ion cells, BMS
- 04Sensing & computeLidar, cameras, GNSS, IMUs, embedded compute
- 05Drone & recoveryAirframe, flight electronics, the bay and its landing pad
- 06Testing & competitionWater time, transport, entry fees, spares and consumables
Dialga is a limited company with a non-profit purpose.
Mobula is a project of Dialga, which is registered as a Norwegian limited company (AS). That means we can invoice you properly and your finance department can process it like any other supplier. It does not mean anyone can take money out.
Dialga's articles of association prohibit the distribution of dividends and specify that on dissolution any net assets pass to a similar student engineering purpose. Sponsorship cannot become anyone's private income, and because Dialga is a limited company, both the articles and the annual accounts are filed publicly at the Brønnøysund Register Centre, so you do not have to take our word for it.
Start a conversation
ScoutDI is on the wall. There is room for you.
Send one line about your company and we will come back with the full sponsor deck, the current build status and exactly what we would do with the support.
sponsors@dialga.no