Steve Jurvetson
Steve Jurvetson is an early-stage venture capitalist focusing on founder-led, mission-driven companies at the cutting edge of disruptive technology and new industry formation. Steve led founding investments in several companies with successful IPOs and others that were billion-dollar acquisitions, representing $1.7 trillion of aggregate value creation. Some of those early VC investments include Planet Labs, SpaceX, and Tesla.
Before co-founding Future Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Steve was an R&D Engineer at Hewlett-Packard, where seven of his chip designs were fabricated. He also worked in product marketing at Apple and NeXT and management consulting with Bain & Company. He completed his undergraduate Electrical Engineering degree at Stanford in 2.5 years, graduating #1 in his class, and earned an MSEE and MBA from Stanford.
In 2017, Steve received the Visionary Award from SV Forum. In 2016, President Barack Obama appointed Steve as a Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship. Steve has also been honored as one of "Tech's Best Venture Investors" by Forbes and as the “Venture Capitalist of the Year” by Deloitte.
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.
NICO Enriquez
Nico Enriquez joined Future Ventures as a principal while completing his Stanford MBA. He studied synthetic neurobiology at Brown University, published peer articles with a Nobel Prize winner, and ran his start-up for several years, earning Forbes 30Under30. Nico sold his company and started a pivot into deep tech by earning a prestigious Fellowship at the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Department of Energy, where he worked for the Director of Commercialization.