# Alex Fink

> Alex Fink is a tech founder who has spent his career at the seam between software and the real world. He is President and US CEO of Swarmer, the Ukraine-born defense company whose software lets a single operator command hundreds of autonomous drones, now trading on the Nasdaq as SWMR. Before that he founded Otherweb, an AI news app built to strip junk out of what people read, a mission rooted in a childhood spent watching a society run on propaganda. Born in the Soviet Union and trained as a computer scientist at the Technion, he keeps returning to one idea: information, and the machines that carry it, decide how the world actually turns out.

- **Role:** President & US CEO at Swarmer
- **Organizations:** Swarmer, Otherweb, Panopteo
- **From:** Soviet Union
- **Nationality:** American (born in the Soviet Union)
- **Education:** B.A. in Computer Science, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, MBA, Marketing, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Isenberg School of Management
- **Known for:** Co-founded Swarmer and helped scale it from a wartime idea to a Nasdaq-listed company (SWMR) in under three years., Built software that lets a single operator coordinate hundreds of autonomous drones across air, sea, and ground., Oversaw Swarmer's growth to more than 100,000 missions flown since its first combat mission in April 2024.

## Career timeline

- **2006** — Earns B.A. in Computer Science from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
- **2018** — Completes an MBA in Marketing at UMass Amherst's Isenberg School of Management.
- **2021** — Founds Otherweb, an AI-powered news app built as a public benefit corporation to filter 'junk' content.
- **2023** — Co-founds Swarmer in May with Serhii Kupriienko; becomes President and a board member.
- **2024** — Swarmer flies its first combat mission in April.
- **2025** — Swarmer raises a $15M Series A in September; Fink becomes US CEO.
- **2026** — Swarmer goes public on the Nasdaq under the ticker SWMR on March 17.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Swarmer and helped scale it from a wartime idea to a Nasdaq-listed company (SWMR) in under three years.
- Built software that lets a single operator coordinate hundreds of autonomous drones across air, sea, and ground.
- Oversaw Swarmer's growth to more than 100,000 missions flown since its first combat mission in April 2024.
- Founded Otherweb, an AI news app registered as a public benefit corporation to improve information quality.
- Raised a $15M Series A for Swarmer in 2025, with roughly $17.7M in total funding to date.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Swarmer announced a partnership with Brightline on AI data collection and drone interoperability for the U.S. Department of War.
- **2026-03** — Swarmer went public on the Nasdaq under the ticker SWMR.
- **2025-09** — Swarmer closed a $15M Series A; Fink stepped into the US CEO role.

## Links

- Website: https://getswarmer.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/temuchin43/

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Last updated: 2026-08-07