Swarmer

Headquarters

Austin, TX, United States

Founded

2023

Employees

62 FT + 60 contractors

Total funding

$17.7M (pre-IPO)

Stage

Public

Status

public

Domains

Drone swarm autonomy, Autonomous mission software, Counter-EW navigation

Website

getswarmer.com

• FounderSerhii KupriienkoCo-founder and CEO Global of Swarmer. Master's in Computer Science, Chernihiv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine (2007). Held a series of research-leadership roles at Ring LLC Ukraine (2018-2021, including Director/General Manager of Research), then General Manager of AI and VP Business Continuity & Protection at Squad Ukraine LLC (2021-2023). Swarmer board member since Dec 2023, CEO since Jan 2024.
• FounderAlex FinkCo-founder and President of Swarmer (titled 'CEO U.S.' since Sept 2025). BA Computer Sciences, Technion — Israel Institute of Technology (2006); MBA Marketing, UMass Amherst Isenberg School of Business (2018). Founded military camera/drone consultancy Panopteo LLC (2015-2022, 35 projects to mass production); engineering roles at Zoran Corp and Videostitch/Orah; marketing at Ambarella; founded and led Otherweb, Inc. (2021-2025). Co-founded Swarmer May 2023.

• FundBroadband Capital InvestmentsInvestment firm; led Swarmer's $15M Series A (Sept 2025).
• FundRG.AI TechnologiesInvestor in Swarmer's Series A; per Swarmer's SEC 424B4 cap table, holds 1,309,331 shares (14.0% pre-offering, 10.6% post-offering).
• FundGreen Flag VenturesInvestor in Swarmer's Series A; per Swarmer's SEC 424B4 cap table, Green Flag Fund I, L.P. holds 499,927 shares (5.3% pre-offering, 4.0% post-offering). Its principal, Justin Zeefe, sits on Swarmer's board.
• FundNetwork VCInvestor in Swarmer's $15M Series A (Sept 2025).
• FundTheseus Capital PartnersSwarmer's largest institutional shareholder per its SEC 424B4 cap table: 2,324,961 shares (22.0% pre-offering, 17.2% post-offering), held via Series A-1 preferred plus warrants. Its principal, Philip Wagenheim, sits on Swarmer's board. Not named in Swarmer's Series A press release — identified only via the SEC filing.
• FundRadius CapitalVenture capital investor; participated in both of Orqa's Seed and Series A rounds.
• FundD3 VCEarly-stage venture fund focused on Ukrainian and allied defense technology (drones, EW, autonomy, sensors, AI); launched 2023 by Eveline Buchatskiy, Anton Verkhovodov, and Elya Chiechienieva, backed by investors including former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Participated in Uforce's $50M seed round and Cambridge Aerospace's ~$130M raised to date.

Approximate ownership by holder. Indexed holders link to their records.

• ContractSkyKnight Software License Contract — Meta Bureau LLCContract to supply 16,000+ Swarmer software licenses to outfit 'SkyKnight' quadcopter bomber drones with swarming software.
• ContractSkyKnight Software License Contract — Progress TRW S.R.O. (Czech Republic carve-out)$1.41M carve-out of Meta Bureau's SkyKnight software-license order, reassigned to Czech LLC Progress TRW S.R.O. under a June 2026 amendment to the Swarmer Estonia OÜ–Meta Bureau master agreement; part of a combined $3.87M current / $14.2M potential deal.

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What does Swarmer do?

Swarmer builds an AI-driven autonomy operating system (Styx AI, Minas, and Trident) that lets heterogeneous drone swarms execute human-defined objectives with one operator per swarm rather than per drone, trained on real Ukrainian combat missions. Co-founded in May 2023 by Serhii Kupriienko (CEO Global, ex-Ring/Amazon) and Alex Fink (President & CEO U.S.); headquartered in Austin, Texas with Ukrainian operations via subsidiary Autonomous Robotics Systems LLC. Deployed operationally with the Armed Forces of Ukraine across 100,000+ missions under active EW/GPS-denial conditions. Erik Prince (of Blackwater/Prince Group) has served as non-executive Chairman of the board since December 2025. Went public on Nasdaq (SWMR) in March 2026 after a $15M Series A in September 2025 (~$17.7M raised pre-IPO), pricing 3,000,000 shares at $5.00 (~$15M gross). In May 2026, Swarmer was awarded a $2.86M contract (up to $13.2M with options) from Meta Bureau LLC for 16,000+ software licenses to outfit 'SkyKnight' quadcopter bomber drones.

Where is Swarmer headquartered?

Swarmer is headquartered in Austin, TX, United States and was founded in 2023.

How much funding has Swarmer raised?

Swarmer has raised $17.7M (pre-IPO) in disclosed funding.

What does Swarmer specialize in?

Swarmer works across Drone swarm autonomy, Autonomous mission software, Counter-EW navigation.

Does Swarmer hold government contracts?

Defense Tech Atlas links Swarmer to 2 government contracts.

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