Maryanna Saenko

Maryanna Saenko is an early-stage venture capitalist and co-founder of Future Ventures.

She invests in frontier technologies that make the world better and don’t prey on human frailty. Recent investments have been across a wide swath of sectors, including nuclear fusion, sustainable agricultural and land management, bee immunology, women’s reproductive longevity, and the application of AI to everything from the construction industry to medical therapeutics. Previously, she was at Khosla Ventures, and before that, DFJ. She was also an investment partner at Airbus Ventures, leading a series of venture investments strategically aligned with Airbus’ future-of-aerospace initiatives. Before Airbus, Maryanna was a Lux Research consultant and a Cabot Corporation research engineer. She’s worked on lunar rovers, martian landers, driverless cars, and long-range low-frequency communication systems.

Maryanna graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a BS in BioMedical Engineering and a BS and MS in Materials Science and Engineering.