Maryanna Saenko
Founder of Future Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Co-founder and Partner
2018 - Current
At Future Ventures, we support passionate founders who are forging the future. We have backed the visionaries who push the boundaries of possibility and explore the frontier of the unknown. Recent investments include: 64xBio, Alice Technologies, Beeflow, Cambrian, Commonwealth Fusion Systems, Copernic Catalysts, Deep Genomics, Doloromics, Earthshot Labs, Faeth, Gameto, Ockam, Opentrons, and Verdant Robotics.
Future Ventures is a financial services platform with a focus on disruptive technology companies.
Principal
2018 - 2018
Khosla Ventures provides venture assistance to entrepreneurs in AI, sustainability, enterprise, consumer, health and frontier technologies.
Raised $1,500,000.00 from Raj Sareen.
Senior Associate
2017 - 2018
Member of the early stage investment team at DFJ, a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley.
Draper Fisher Jurvetson is a venture capital firm.
Investment Partner
2016 - 2017
As an Investment Partner at Airbus Ventures, the fast-moving, intensely curious early-stage investment group, Maryanna seeks exceptional, inspired founders from around the world who will set the course for ground-breaking innovation in mobility, security and the future of flight. The vision of the fund is to continuously ignite interest in the wonder that is aerospace. Headquartered in Silicon Valley and Paris, the fund supports start-ups across the globe and is a valuable, efficient, and energetic partner to those who recognize that advances in aerospace will impact all life on Earth and beyond.
Airbus Ventures empowers entrepreneurs to shift the future of aerospace.
Research Analyst
2014 - 2016
Led Lux’s Autonomous Systems 2.0 service, which covered technological developments as well as market developments in robotics. These developments include autonomous vehicles, robotics, unmanned aerial vehicles and artificial intelligence.
Sr. Research Associate
2012 - 2014
Designed and executed experiments that investigated directed particle assembly of carbon black with blended polymer matrices in order to create electrically conductive and mechanically durable materials. The research used a variety of characterization techniques to perform analytical experiments.
Cabot is a global performance materials company that delivers a broad range of products and solutions to customers.
Raised $5,000,000.00 from US Department of Energy.
Research and Development Engineer
2011 - 2012
Researched and developed a process for growth of low stress magnetic thin films for a MEMS scale magneto-electric device for wireless power transfer in implanted medical devices. Funded by NSF Phase 1 SBIR Award, these systems would enable micro-implanted medical devices such as drug delivery, nerve stimulation and biosensors. The research also involved the characterization of thin films, building test apparatus and packaging for MEMS magneto-electric device and modeled magnetic systems for clients using COMSOL.
Researcher- Field Robotics Center
2007 - 2009
Former member of Carnegie Mellon’s Google Lunar-X Prize Team. Worked on the wheel design project building and testing apparatuses for lunar wheels and conducted experiments to determine the most successful design. The research also included a dust mitigation research initiative.