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Alex Fink

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264 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Rundown
Swarmer CEO on Building the “Microsoft of Drones”

So if it's not used yet, it probably will be.

The Rundown
Swarmer CEO on Building the “Microsoft of Drones”

Gotcha.

The Rundown
Swarmer CEO on Building the “Microsoft of Drones”

first of all as i mentioned the tactics in ukraine keep changing quite a bit every few months so when we launched the primary product that ukraine was using was larger bombers especially the kind that was active at night and we're using infrared cameras to basically seek out heat signatures and take them out

The Rundown
Swarmer CEO on Building the “Microsoft of Drones”

Right.

The Rundown
Swarmer CEO on Building the “Microsoft of Drones”

So we started from those products, but over time they became less and less useful.

The Rundown
Swarmer CEO on Building the “Microsoft of Drones”

And what you started seeing a lot more of on the battlefield is the use of smaller kamikaze drones, typically eight to ten inch quadcopters that just go and ram the target right and explode upon impact.

The Rundown
Swarmer CEO on Building the “Microsoft of Drones”

So we had to pivot ourselves as well, because it's one thing to just integrate with a new product.

The Rundown
Swarmer CEO on Building the “Microsoft of Drones”

It's another to go and embed ourselves with the unit, see how it's used, figure out how to define the type of missions that commanders in the field want to run as well, etc.

The Rundown
Swarmer CEO on Building the “Microsoft of Drones”

So this is why you're seeing this past transition from smaller revenues on our original type of deployment that declined over time.

The Rundown
Swarmer CEO on Building the “Microsoft of Drones”

And what you're seeing right now with the numbers we have under contract and under MOUs, almost all of it is the new kind of product that we're seeing in Ukraine, smaller type kamikaze drones.

The Rundown
Swarmer CEO on Building the “Microsoft of Drones”

And just for an idea of what the size of that market is, last year alone, Ukraine manufactured 4.7 million of these small drones.

The Rundown
Swarmer CEO on Building the “Microsoft of Drones”

And that's just Ukraine.

The Rundown
Swarmer CEO on Building the “Microsoft of Drones”

We still don't know what 2026 is going to look like.

The Rundown
Swarmer CEO on Building the “Microsoft of Drones”

But obviously we have a long way to grow in this market.

The Rundown
Swarmer CEO on Building the “Microsoft of Drones”

Our market penetration is still not that great.

The Rundown
Swarmer CEO on Building the “Microsoft of Drones”

Most of the stuff that is flown is still flown manually.

The Rundown
Swarmer CEO on Building the “Microsoft of Drones”

We think that can be improved over time.

The Rundown
Swarmer CEO on Building the “Microsoft of Drones”

We have sales teams right now in every continent, right?

The Rundown
Swarmer CEO on Building the “Microsoft of Drones”

It's just the sales cycles are somewhat longer in the West than they are in Ukraine.

The Rundown
Swarmer CEO on Building the “Microsoft of Drones”

In Ukraine, if it flies, it goes, right?