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Mark Scianna

Forward Deployed Venture Capital | ex-Palantir FDE

San Francisco Bay Area

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Work Experience

  • General Partner

    2022

    Early-stage venture firm focused on mission-critical sectors and tech including defense, energy, industrials, and artificial intelligence. We are backed by Bain Capital Ventures and a motley crew of 100+ operators from Palantir and Anduril: hackers, designers, spies, machine learning specialists, classification experts, government contracting officers, nuclear engineers, and top leadership.

2020 - 2022

  • Staff Product Manager

    2020 - 2022

    Artificial intelligence software for national security and defense customers. * Mar. 2020 - Dec. 2021: Sr. Product Manager, geospatial product. Additionally, led a task force working with our intelligence customer to build and test a vehicle recognition tool. * Dec. 2021 - Mar. 2022: Staff Product Manager

2010 - 2022

  • Angel Investor

    2010 - 2022

    Y Combinator Startup Investor School Alum, 2018 12 years, 25 companies, 10x DPI, 33% IRR Notable Investments: - Palantir - Oklo - Anduril

2008 - 2019

  • Forward Deployed Engineer

    2008 - 2019

    * 2018-2019: DoD's Project Maven: building and deploying a mission-critical AI product with our customer at their HQ and downrange locations. * 2014-2018: Palantir Forward team lead: supporting users at the edge and providing the basis for an 800M DCGS-A Army contract. Performed related critical high-side mission support. Lead Palantir Mobile product development and support with Federal Law Enforcement. Supported customer migration to C2S. * 2010-2014: Defense team tech lead: building products and deploying with SOCOM, US Army, and USMC in Afghanistan and Iraq. * 2008-2010: Engineer on Palantir Gotham.

  • Sales Engineer

    2005 - 2008

    * President's Club Honoree (Top 5% of 200+ salespersons). * Sales of telecommunication services by finding and qualifying opportunities, understanding customer requirements, developing and presenting solutions, and securing contracts with new customers. * Worked with engineering and project management teams to ensure timely service delivery, seamless implementation, and customer satisfaction. * Build and manage partnerships with VARs and integrators * Consistently exceed sales quota.

2002 - 2005

  • Co-Founder

    2002 - 2005

    Built a custom DNS-based content filtering service, offering fast and lightweight malware protection and content filtering for schools and educational organizations.