Future Ventures

A seed and early-stage venture capital firm backing mission-driven founders working on frontier technology and new industry formation. The partners describe 25 years of investing in visionaries who push the boundaries of possibility, with a focus on purpose-driven entrepreneurs whose ideas have the potential to reinvent entire industries. Founding investments led by the partners span companies that went on to successful IPOs and billion-dollar acquisitions, cited collectively as $1.7 trillion of aggregate value creation; named early investments include Boring Company, Commonwealth Fusion, D-Wave, Planet (Planet Labs), Skype, SpaceX, Tesla and Upside Foods - the last of these placing the firm in cultivated-meat and food-technology territory relevant to consumer packaged goods. The firm was co-founded by Steve Jurvetson and Maryanna Saenko. Jurvetson, previously a co-founder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, was an R&D engineer at Hewlett-Packard with seven fabricated chip designs, worked in product marketing at Apple and NeXT and in management consulting at Bain & Company, holds an Electrical Engineering degree plus an MSEE and MBA from Stanford, received the SV Forum Visionary Award in 2017 and was appointed a Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship in 2016. Saenko invests in frontier technologies across nuclear fusion, sustainable agriculture and land management, bee immunology, women's reproductive longevity, and applications of AI from construction to medical therapeutics; she previously worked at Khosla Ventures, DFJ and Airbus Ventures, and holds degrees in biomedical engineering and materials science from Carnegie Mellon. Nico Enriquez focuses on energy, robotics and climate companies, having founded and sold a startup and held a fellowship at the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency, with degrees from Brown, Stanford and Columbia. Investment activity centers on seed and early-stage rounds, often as the founding investor, in deep-technology and science-driven companies including space, fusion and quantum computing, agriculture and alternative proteins, robotics and climate. Beyond capital, the firm positions itself as a long-term partner to technically ambitious founders, and publishes writing and long-form interviews on topics such as deep learning and producing meat without animals. It is a venture investor rather than a manufacturer, so it offers no production capabilities of its own.