Maryanna Saenko is co-founder and partner at Future Ventures, a VC firm focused on solving the world’s problems through emerging technologies. In that capacity, she is on the lookout for trailblazing, purpose-driven early-stage investments that have the potential to reinvent entire industries. As early investors in SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, Planet, and Skype, Saenko has a track record of successfully picking the right companies and founders. With a deep background in robotics, including a MS from Cornell in Materials Science and Engineering, she has a keen understanding of the robotics world, and has investments in the space such as Verdant Robotics, robotics-as-a-service for ground-based farming.