Maryanna Saenko

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.

Principal

2018 - 2018

Senior Associate

2017 - 2018

Member of the early stage investment team at DFJ, a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley.

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.

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.

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.