Swarmer Signs Agreement to Acquire Certain Intellectual Property of Vataga Drone, Plans to Add Their Engineering Team
The cash-and-equity transaction would bring hardware intellectual property in-house while Vataga remains an independent manufacturer.
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Following the closing of the transaction, Vataga CEO Maksym Melnyk and 14 members of the company’s R&D team plan to join Swarmer, bringing combat-proven hardware expertise to Swarmer’s autonomy platform
The transaction, comprising cash and equity, will provide Swarmer with rights in a portfolio of Vataga's hardware and software engineering intellectual property, including FPV airframe designs, initiation electronics, ground-control equipment, development tooling and manufacturing documentation. Following completion of the transaction, Vataga CEO Maksym Melnyk and 14 members of the company's hardware research and development team will join Swarmer, and Vataga will continue to operate as an independent manufacturing company.
Since being founded in 2023, Vataga's VTG Spark initiation boards have been supplied for use in more than 100,000 Ukrainian drones and its NATO-codified FPV-10 "Peacemaker" platform has been fielded with more than 20 Ukrainian military units. Its 13-inch FPV attack drone is currently deployed in combat in eastern
“Bringing battle-tested hardware capabilities in-house means we can create reliable full-stack solutions,” said Alex Fink, President and
“We are excited to join Swarmer, whose success story has made them a recognized name in Ukraine’s defense technology sector,” said Melnyk, who will report directly to Fink as Vice President of Hardware. “We are looking forward to combining our hardware design capabilities with Swarmer’s software capabilities to produce complete end-to-end solutions.”
About Vataga Drone
Vataga Drone is a Ukrainian defense technology company founded in 2023 and headquartered in
About Swarmer
Swarmer™ (Nasdaq: SWMR) is a defense technology company that specializes in vendor-agnostic software which allows one operator to intuitively control hundreds of autonomous platforms in real time. Swarmer’s primary mission areas include autonomous swarm coordination, integration of multi-domain unmanned systems and AI-powered autonomy software for distributed operations. Swarmer’s technology has been rigorously validated in real-world kinetic environments and was first deployed in combat operations in Ukraine in April 2024. Since then, it has completed more than 100,000 combat missions, generating terabytes of proprietary data that informs its machine-learning models and enables the replication of advanced pilot performance at scale. Swarmer’s routine use in combat missions generates continuous streams of telemetry, sensor data and operational feedback which are then used to refine performance, increase resilience and accelerate learning. Swarmer has headquarters in Austin, Texas, and maintains operations and teams in Ukraine, Poland and Estonia. For more information, visit www.swarmer.com.
Forward-Looking Statements:
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