Portfolio companies listed on time’s top greentech companies of 2024

CONGRATS to our portfolio companies: Beeflow, Better Meat, Commonwealth Fusion and Verdant Robotics. They were listed among America’s top green tech companies in 2024, showcasing innovative solutions for a sustainable future,

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Steve jurvetson on disruptive entrepreneurship, investing in the future, and humanity’s patH forward

Steve Jurvetson, Co-Founder of Future Ventures, underscores the importance of visionary leadership, humility, and team diversity for successful disruptive entrepreneurs. He discusses his venture capital approach, emphasizing long-term mentorship over governance, and hilights his investment criteria centered around impactful and visionary companies leveraging emerging technologies to address global challenges.

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Feng Zhang, grail founder join forces on new gene editing startup, moonwalk

Moonwalk Therapeutics, a new startup co-founded by CRISPR innovator Feng Zhang, has secured $57 million in funding from investors like Future Ventures and Khosla Ventures. The company aims to develop a non-cutting form of gene editing called epigenetic editing, focusing on chemical changes to treat various disease, including chronic and aging-related conditions.

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Empowering health: ATx-304 Signals a breakthrough in cardiometabolic treatment

Amplifier Therapeutics has commenced its Phase 1B clinical trial for ATX-304, a promising treatment for cardiometabolic diseases, marking a significant advancement in collaboration with Cambrian Bio and backed by increased funding from RA Capital Management and Future Ventures.

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Signal Promotes Mobilecoin Out of Beta Under New CEO Sara Drakeley's Leadership

Sara Drakeley becomes Mobilecoin's new CEO, celebrated for her instrumental role in rapidly developing the most secure payments solution, as Signal promotes Mobilecoin out of Beta, highlighting its strong privacy protection.

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Robust.Ai raises $20M as it SCales Robot Deliveries For Pilot Customers

We’re delighted to share our first investment in Future Ventures Fund 3. The founders, Anthony Jules and Rodney Brooks, both world experts in robotics, have gone back to their roots, building robots that will be transformative for people.

Future Ventures Partner Maryanna Saenko featured on bios ventures podcast

Hear from Maryanna Saenko about her experiences and current work at Future Ventures. Hosted by the BIOS community of Life Science innovators.

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Maryanna Saenko on Venture Capital, Philanthropy, and Ethical Technology.

Maryanna Saenko joins Future of Life podcast to discuss how venture capital works, how to fund innovation, and what the fields of investing and philanthropy could learn from each other.

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future ventures closes its Third fund

Future Ventures is proud to announce the closing of Future Ventures Fund III, at the same $200M size as our prior two funds. We are excited to help the next generation of hard-tech companies forge a better future for the benefit of humanity.

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Harnessing Fungi to create a climate of change in the mEAT wORLD

Speaking at TED, CEO and author Paul Shapiro makes the case for creating new kinds of meat experiences by harnessing the power of microscopic fungi to lighten humanity's footprint, and food-print, on the planet.

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steve Jurvetson ON accelerating the FUTURE

START Speaking Tomorrow in Switzerland with an audience of 6,000 students and entrepreneurs at the START Summit 2023.

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future ventures closes its second fund

Future Ventures 2 is our second $200 million fund, closed almost two years after launching our flagship fund. For the past two years, we sourced and invested in companies whose mission is to change the world for the better. We have no intention to veer from that course, and are humbled by the support from our limited partners.

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Future Ventures Partner Maryanna Saenko featured at TransTech conference

Ahead of the TransTech Conference, Future Ventures Partner Maryanna Saenko gave her thoughts on what all our investments have in common: they’re all companies that focus on doing good in the world. In this exclusive interview, she adds, “We want to use technology as a force that allows people to enter an abundance mindset and not think, ‘How can I get my piece at the cost of someone else’s?’”

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Sensei biotherapeutics announces appointment of anu hoey as new chief business officer

Future Ventures portfolio company Sensei Biotherapeutics has announced the appointment of Anu Hoey as their new Chief Business Officer. Bringing over 18 years of transactional and corporate expertise, CEO John Celebi says Anu will be instrumental as the company executes on their vision of establishing a new and disruptive class of immunotherapies.

The Tim Ferriss Show

Tim Ferriss commands 90% of my podcast attention. Unlike the arbitrage media du jour, he aims for timeless nuggets of wisdom from a panoply of top performers. So, it is a great honor to have our almost 3-hour (!) long-form interview go live today, with a wide range of fun topics. Enjoy: Our Episode (we start at minute 6:19 with a deep dive on quantum computing. A wider range of fun topics starts at minute 27).

Let’s not Call them Flying Cars, Maryanna Shares Perspective at the Uber Elevate Conference

As a moto-head I cringe at the prospect of taking a car and trying to make it fly - it’s inefficient, it’s heavy, it’s a waste. Cars are amazing but nothing about the word ‘car’ evokes flight-worthiness. Soon Tesla and other companies pioneering electric vehicles will change our perspective on the word car, it will become seamless with powerful, clean, accessible transport; until then let’s keep the cars to the ground and stop trying to strap wings to internal combustion engines. Here’s a link to a fun discussion we had at the Uber Elevate Summit around funding e-VTOL’s, and how that future may evolve.

Steve Interviews Elon Musk At Stanford for FutureFest

My favorite questions came from the students, as I had never heard them asked before. They covered Elon's thoughts on governance on Mars and his views on art and design (which reminded me so much of Steve Jobs).

1. Nick Xu, Architectural Design, Co-Term: What do you look for in design? What do you look for in art?

2. Stanford Space Initiative students: How do you envision humans governing a separate planet?

Future Ventures Officially Launches

Hello Future. Future Ventures Fund 1 is our flagship $200 million venture fund focused on seed and early-stage investments in trailblazing, purpose-driven entrepreneurs with ideas that have the potential to reinvent entire industries. 

We were thrilled to have the support of a dream team of limited partners that share our passion for backing extraordinary entrepreneurs who are changing the world. We were oversubscribed with interest, allowing us to get to a single close in record time. Thank you for your support and belief in us.