Alessandro Fiume is Co-Founder of IMPACT Drones (YC S26), a Y Combinator-backed defense tech startup building Air Defense as a Service for critical civilian infrastructure.

Alessandro holds a dual master's degree from Columbia Engineering and Columbia Business School (MSBA), with prior studies in Financial Engineering at Maastricht University and a Master in Management at ESCP Business School, having lived and studied across 3 continents.

A multilingual entrepreneur fluent in Italian, English, French, and Spanish, Alessandro brings a rare blend of sales, analytics, and business development expertise to a deep-tech hardware venture.

Before IMPACT Drones, Alessandro worked on the Sales Analytics Desk at Bloomberg and co-founded Aerointel, a visual navigation and targeting AI company that generated $300K in revenue from European defense customers and co-secured a presence at the NATO Summit 2025.

IMPACT Drones has amassed over $180 million in signed letters of intent and is targeting pilot deployments of its autonomous interceptor systems in Q3 2026, addressing a critical gap in affordable air defense for data centers, airports, and power grids.