Draft:Alex Fink (American programmer)

Alex Fink (born July 26, 1984) is an American programmer and entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of Otherweb, a startup focusing on news and social news media, and a co-founder at Swarmer, a startup dedicated to military technology.

Career
In 2016, Fink founded Panopteo, a technical consulting company that developed video cameras and computer vision software. By 2021, he had a crisis of conscience and decided the world didn’t need more cameras; the company was slowly wound down despite 6 years of continuous profitability.

In 2021, Fink founded Otherweb an artificial intelligence company focused on using AI to help people consume higher-quality information. The company operates a portfolio of websites and apps that aggregate news, commentary, podcasts, research studies, and other forms of content, and use artificial intelligence to remove low-quality material. By November 2023, the combined user base of Otherweb’s products was 5.4m active users.

In 2023, Fink co-founded Swarmer - a military tech startup that develops software for managing drone swarm missions. The startup received funding from D3, a military tech fund created by Google’s former CEO Eric Schmidt. As of December 2023, Swarmer’s products are used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in its defensive war against Russia.