Founder Profile
Alex Shevchenko
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Alex Shevchenko?
Alex Shevchenko is a founder of Grammarly Inc., which was founded in 2009 with Max Lytvyn and Dmytro Lider.
- Company founded
- Grammarly Inc.
- Founded
- 2009
- Co-founders
- Max Lytvyn and Dmytro Lider
Background
Ukrainian software entrepreneur.
Founding Story
Alex Shevchenko co-founded Grammarly in 2009. He had previously co-founded MyDropbox, a plagiarism detection software that was widely used by universities and eventually acquired by Blackboard. He realized that rather than just catching students cheating after the fact, there was a massive market for a tool that proactively helped people write better English in real-time. Alex Shevchenko was born in 1980.
Sources
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- Grammarly Announces $1 Billion Growth Financing With General Catalyst (Grammarly Inc.)
- Grammarly Rebrands Company as Superhuman (Grammarly Inc.)