# Alex Pachikov

> Alex Pachikov is the co-founder and CEO of Sunflower Labs, a Swiss-American robotics company whose Beehive system dispatches autonomous drones to investigate activity across large properties. An astronomy and sociology graduate who spent nine years on Evernote's early team, Pachikov turned a personal curiosity about noises near his forest-side home into a security platform, survived a pandemic-era collapse in the residential market, moved toward commercial and industrial customers, and raised a $16 million Series B led by Sequoia Capital in 2025.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Sunflower Labs
- **Organizations:** Sunflower Labs, Evernote, Colorado Space Grant Consortium, SGI
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Bachelor of Arts in Astronomy and Sociology, University of Colorado Boulder
- **Known for:** Co-founded Sunflower Labs and led its transition from a residential home-awareness concept to autonomous security for commercial and industrial properties., Served for nine years on Evernote's early team, including as Vice President of Partnerships., Is named on granted U.S. patents covering distributed security sensors, autonomous camera vehicles, multicopter landing systems and natural-language descriptions of security events.

## Career timeline

- **1997** — Began working as a systems administrator for the Colorado Space Grant Consortium.
- **2006-2015** — Spent nine years on Evernote's early team, serving in partnership, business development, developer relations and hardware integration leadership roles.
- **2016** — Co-founded Sunflower Labs with Chris Eheim and Nicolas de Palézieux.
- **2017** — Sunflower Labs announced a strategic partnership with Stanley Black & Decker and described its sensor-plus-aerial-camera home awareness system.
- **2020** — Introduced the Sunflower system at CES; later shipped a working system to Japan and completed the installation remotely during pandemic travel restrictions.
- **2022** — Expanded Swiss operations in Stallikon and publicly detailed commercial deployments and partnerships, including work with Swiss Federal Railways.
- **2024** — Sunflower Labs received an FAA waiver covering beyond-visual-line-of-sight operations and other specified conditions.
- **2025** — Raised a $16 million Series B led by Sequoia Capital to expand deployments, AI development and security-platform integrations.
- **2026** — Discussed Sunflower Labs' founding story, system design and AI plans on the Titan Protection podcast.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Sunflower Labs and led its transition from a residential home-awareness concept to autonomous security for commercial and industrial properties.
- Served for nine years on Evernote's early team, including as Vice President of Partnerships.
- Is named on granted U.S. patents covering distributed security sensors, autonomous camera vehicles, multicopter landing systems and natural-language descriptions of security events.
- Led Sunflower Labs through a $16 million Series B financing led by Sequoia Capital in 2025.
- Helped obtain FAA waivers for specified autonomous drone operations, including beyond visual line of sight.

## Latest updates

- **2026-02** — Appeared in a Titan Protection interview recorded at ISC West to discuss Sunflower Labs' founding story, integrated sensor-drone-hive design and AI plans.
- **2025-12** — Discussed Swiss drone regulation, privacy engineering, manufacturing and the global robotics race in an interview with Watson.
- **2025-11** — Sunflower Labs announced a $16 million Series B led by Sequoia Capital, with plans to expand AI development, deployments and integrations.

## Links

- Website: https://sunflower-labs.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexpach
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/alexpach
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtx3HghhZWC9I0mdyVw33ZA
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/sunflowerlabs/

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Last updated: 2026-08-17