Bruno Faviero
Founder of Magna
Bruno Faviero
Founder of Magna
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder & CEO
2022 - Current
https://magna.so - Our platform makes it easy for crypto companies to distribute vesting tokens to their employees and investors. We also build Magna Institutional, tools for crypto funds to manage their digital asset portfolios. We raised $17M in 2022 and are hiring aggressively! Backed by top investors including Tiger Global, Tusk Venture Partners, Shima Capital, Circle Ventures, Solana Ventures, Polygon Ventures, Avalanche Labs, Galaxy Digital and angels including Balaji Srinivasan, Ryan Selkis, Steve Aoki, and Bryan Pellegrino.
Co-Founder & General Partner
2021
Alloy is an $5M early-stage operator fund focused on pre-seed and seed startups. 3 founders writing occasional checks into biotech, AI, crypto, and Enterprise SaaS.
Co-Founder / Founding Advisor
2021 - 2021
Backed by SignalFire, Bloomberg Beta, and other top investors. Ship high-quality models faster with a complete, end-to-end ML testing and debugging platform. Incubated out of our work at Synapse.
Product Manager (via acq.)
2020 - 2021
Joined Palantir via acquisition of my startup, Synapse. – Started as Head of one of the largest product teams at Palantir, Gaia. – Later was PM of Palantir's AI Platform. Worked very closely with customers across our entire US Government portfolio, as well with other customers worldwide.
Founding Partner
2017 - 2021
Investing in recent graduates building amazing things. Backed by First Round Capital. Investor in: prelay.com trytrove.co catch.co floating.group and others
Angel Investor
2017 - 2021
Supporting startups, particularly in enterprise applications of Artificial Intelligence. Investor in over 35 startups including: surge.ai fiscalnote.com casaone.com Prelay.com, An all-in-one sales enablement platform. truenorthfleet.com, A modern freight carrier Pristem, Next-generation clothing cleaning service dover.io, Automated recruiting. No humans. trustedfor.com, Recommendations-based professional network. Backend Capital, an early-stage fund supporting visionary founders. livecobu.com, Powering genuine communities joincabinet.com, Community and tools for your EA catch.co, The future of benefits. viseai.com, AI investment management for financial advisors. onswitchboard.com, Making the freight marketplace more efficient. anthq.com, Automating the retail backend for eCommerce SMBs. biocellection.com, The future of plastic recycling technology. evoeco.com, Enterprise waste management.
Co-Founder and COO
2019 - 2020
Acquired by Palantir in March 2020. Silicon Valley based company bringing computer vision and deep learning AI to security inspection markets in aviation, ports, customs, cargo, critical infrastructure and major events. Backed by some of the best investors in the world (8VC, Founders Fund, Neo, Village Global, and others). Synapse served customers globally including in the US, Singapore, Japan, and UAE. We held over 8 patents on our technology. As CEO I did many things including sales, on-site deployments, working with USG stakeholders, some DC lobbying for a brief time, and recruited most of our team. As COO I focused on project managing our dozens of on-prem hardware deployments end-to-end across over half a dozen countries and across both the government and private sector.
Co-Founder and CEO
2017 - 2019
Working with global aviation security stakeholders to develop a threat intelligence platform for security checkpoints at airports, government and office buildings, and other environments.
Software Engineer & Product Manager
2013 - 2017
Acquired by S&P Global for over $600M. Led my own team focused on customer-oriented solutions leveraging Kensho’s core analysis engine. Spent a lot of time on sales and trading floors building tools for PMs and traders, and also created the Kensho StatsBox graphic tool to generate continuous TV presence (cnbc.com/kensho) Joined Kensho when they were 3 months old. Software engineering intern from September 2013 – 2015.
Alumni Council
2013 - 2017
Pre-seed fund, by students for students. Founding Managing Partner, Boston (2013-2015) Alumni Council Chair (2015-2017) Alumni Council Advisor (2017-)
Managing Partner
2013 - 2015
Founding Managing Partner in Boston. Led a team that invested $500,000 into 25 student-run startups. Some investments we made during my time there: – Bevi ($60M raised to date) Smart water dispenser. – RapidSOS ($60M+ raised to date) Modern 911 infrastructure. – Bevspot, ($15M+ raised to date) Food and beverage management software for bars and restaurants. – Lovepop ($10M+ raised to date) Magical 3D greeting cards. – Tetrascience ($10M+ raised to date) Modern IOT for labs. – Reach Labs ($9M+ raised to date) Wireless electricity. Actually. Other investments including MaestroQA, PandaPay, Parable Health, Booya Fitness, and others.
Technical Advisor
2015 - 2017
iOS virtual tour creator