Combat-driven collaborative autonomy software. One operator, hundreds of drones, a single coordinated swarm - across air, sea and land.
Swarmer's swarm-chevron mark, rendered in white on black - a stack of drones falling into formation. The company sells no aircraft of its own; the product is the intelligence that makes other people's drones fly together.
A skilled drone pilot can hold one aircraft in their head at a time. Swarmer's software holds hundreds. That distance - between what a person can track and what a machine can - is the whole reason the company exists, and it is also why Swarmer decided, early and deliberately, never to build a drone of its own.
Founded in May 2023 by Serhii Kupriienko and Alex Fink, Swarmer emerged from operational necessity during the war in Ukraine. Rather than shipping airframes, it ships the autonomy layer: software that runs on drones and unmanned vehicles operators already own, turning a scattered fleet into a coordinated swarm that pursues a human-defined objective on its own.
The pitch is deceptively plain. Give the machine what the machine is good at - processing floods of information and reacting in split seconds - and keep the human on the decisions that matter. Swarmer is emphatic that people make every life-or-death call. The AI flies, coordinates and adapts; it does not choose to end a life.
That combination - proven in combat, agnostic about hardware, and explicit about where the human sits - is what pulled in a record raise, a string of defense partnerships, and, in March 2026, a Nasdaq debut that briefly turned a war-born startup into one of the year's most-watched tickers.
"Our software has proven itself in live combat across tens of thousands of missions. This funding enables us to scale operations and provide advanced swarming capabilities to every unmanned vehicle, in Ukraine and NATO-aligned nations." Serhii Kupriienko · Co-founder & CEO
Swarmer's stack splits the problem into command, cooperation and the operating system underneath - each built to keep working when GPS drops and comms get jammed.
Swarm management and AI command-and-control. STYX coordinates recon and strike drones, tasks them, and lets them adapt among themselves - even in areas with limited communications.
The autonomy and collaboration module, purpose-built for denied environments. When GNSS and links are unreliable, MINAS keeps drones cooperating and moving as one.
The embedded drone operating system: mesh networking, military-grade encryption, video streaming, secure data handling and hardware abstraction that make the swarm reliable across airframes.
An operator sets the objective. Swarmer's software translates that intent into tasks, distributes them across whatever drones are available, and lets the swarm re-plan in real time as the battlefield shifts. Because the intelligence is trained on real combat data - 82,000 of Swarmer's own missions plus millions more flown by others - it is tuned to replicate top-pilot behaviour rather than textbook simulation.
The company has demonstrated swarms of up to 25 drones cooperating in GNSS-denied conditions. Its stated roadmap is combined-arms operations of 100+ drones fusing aerial (UAS), surface (USV), ground (UGV) and stationary launchers into a single unit that behaves as one.
The bar chart approximates the human-to-machine leverage that defines the product - the ratio of aircraft a single operator can meaningfully direct.
"Our goal is to be able to work with any hardware out there and to support any battlefield management system or command and control system above us." Alex Fink · Co-founder & US CEO
Where competitors such as Anduril, Shield AI and Auterion pair autonomy with their own hardware and vertically integrated systems, Swarmer bets on neutrality: be the intelligence layer that sits on any airframe and beneath any command system. That is slower to demo and harder to sell than a finished drone - and it is exactly what lets the company scale without a factory.
Ukrainian armed forces are the proving ground, with the software targeting NATO-aligned militaries and defense integrators. Because the platform is hardware-agnostic, Swarmer is also being explored for civilian work - precision agriculture, emergency response, infrastructure inspection and coastal/environmental monitoring.
B2B and B2G software licensing. Swarmer sells a software-only autonomy stack that runs on customers' existing unmanned systems, avoiding the capital and supply-chain drag of building airframes. The dual-use angle - defense today, civilian tomorrow - widens the market without changing the product.
In September 2025 Swarmer closed a $15M Series A - reported as the single largest investment in a Ukrainian defense-tech company since the start of the war - led by Broadband Capital Investments. In March 2026 it listed on the Nasdaq under the ticker SWMR.
Serhii Kupriienko and Alex Fink launch Swarmer in May, born out of operational necessity during the war in Ukraine.
From April, Swarmer's autonomy software begins supporting real-world combat missions, generating proprietary training data.
The largest Ukrainian defense-tech round since the war, led by Broadband Capital Investments.
Selected to lead a deployable drone interceptor system, and partners with Tekmara and Florida International University on coastal-restoration swarms.
Swarmer goes public in March at $5 a share, with shares soaring several hundred percent on debut.
With X-Drone, Norda Dynamics and Kara Dag Technologies, Swarmer is leading development of an integrated interceptor system for aerial and maritime threats - fusing detection, targeting, guidance and interceptor drones into one swarm.
With Tekmara and Florida International University, Swarmer is exploring autonomous drone swarms for coastal restoration and environmental monitoring - a civilian test of the same platform.
Swarmer makes software, not drones. Its hardware-agnostic autonomy stack - STYX, MINAS and TRIDENT - lets a single operator coordinate many unmanned vehicles as one swarm across air, sea and land.
It was founded in 2023 by Serhii Kupriienko (CEO) and Alex Fink (President & US CEO). It's headquartered in Austin, Texas, with teams across Ukraine, Poland, Romania and Estonia.
Swarmer raised a $15M Series A in September 2025 - the largest Ukrainian defense-tech round since the war - roughly $17.7M in total, and later went public on the Nasdaq under ticker SWMR.
No. The AI handles perception, coordination and split-second reactions, but Swarmer's ethical design requires a human to make all life-or-death decisions.
Yes. Because the platform is hardware-agnostic, it's being explored for precision agriculture, emergency response, infrastructure inspection and coastal/environmental monitoring.