Alex Fink

Well, on a very basic level, we help drones fly autonomously and cooperate in large groups without pilots.

So the basic idea is Ukraine wanted to launch millions of drones, but didn't have millions of pilots.

And we wanted to allow it to do so with whatever pilots it had.

So we created the system that allows one operator to control hundreds of drones.

Yeah, so I was building cameras and imaging devices before this for about 18 years.

My co-founder was the head of computer vision and AI at Ring in Kyiv.

And then they were acquired by Amazon.

And when the full scale invasion started, I guess he started thinking that maybe doorbells are not the most important thing to be working on right now.

So he started volunteering for the different drone squadrons.

He started helping startups in the ecosystem.

And then one day he calls me up and we've been friends for years before that.

And he says, I know, here's what the problem is.

And then he described what I just told you.

I registered the company pretty much the next day in the US as a Delaware C Corp.

And then we continued with this parallel track of business and legal and all of that organization in the US, engineering and field deployment in Ukraine.

So the company was founded in May 2023.

We got our first investor check in December 2023 from a fund created by Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google.

Then January 2024, we had the first customer contract.

April 2024, the first combat deployment.

And then from there, I think you kind of know the highlights by now.