Bruno Faviero
Founder of Magna
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder & CEO
2022 - Current
https://magna.so - Our platform makes it easy for crypto companies to distribute vesting tokens to their employees and investors. We also build Magna Institutional, tools for crypto funds to manage their digital asset portfolios. We raised $17M in 2022 and are hiring aggressively! Backed by top investors including Tiger Global, Tusk Venture Partners, Shima Capital, Circle Ventures, Solana Ventures, Polygon Ventures, Avalanche Labs, Galaxy Digital and angels including Balaji Srinivasan, Ryan Selkis, Steve Aoki, and Bryan Pellegrino.
Magna develops a token vesting and DeFi investment management platform.
Raised $15,700,000.00 from Solana Ventures, Liquid 2 Ventures, Steve Aoki, Galaxy Digital, Blockchain Founders Fund, Side Door Ventures, Tusk Venture Partners, Avalanche, Ryan Selkis and Circle Ventures.
Co-Founder & General Partner
2021
Early stage VC firm, investing in big ideas and breakthrough discoveries
Co-Founder
2021 - 2021
Kolena is a machine learning testing and debugging platform.
Raised $21,500,000.00 from Zero Prime Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, SignalFire, 11.2 Capital and lobby capital.
Product Manager (via acquisition.)
2020 - 2021
Lead of one of the largest product teams at Palantir, Gaia. Later was PM of Palantir's AI Platform. Worked very closely with customers across our entire Government portfolio.
Palantir Technologies is a software company that develops data analytics and data integration software solutions.
Raised $3,027,970,015.00 from ARK Investment Management and ARK Investment Management.
Managing Partner
2017 - 2021
Co-Founder and CEO
2017 - 2020
Computer Vision AI for security applications. Worked with TSA, CBP, DHS, and Air Force with deployments around the world. Acquired by Palantir.
Synapse uses proprietary deep learning and computer vision systems to modernize the security and defense visual analysis field.
Raised $8,500,000.00 from Founders Fund, 8VC, Village Global, Xfund, Kohala Ventures, Trevor Wright, Responder Ventures, Scout Ventures, Trevor Wright and Eric Del Balso.
Software Engineer & Product Manager
2013 - 2017
Kensho is an artificial intelligence company that combines natural language search, graphical user interfaces, and secure cloud computing.
Raised $81,125,000.00 from JP Morgan Chase, General Catalyst, Morgan Stanley, Citi, Goldman Sachs, Breyer Capital, Wells Fargo, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and S&P Global.
Alumni Council
2013 - 2017
Managing Partner
2013 - 2015
Dorm Room Fund is the strongest community of entrepreneurial students in the nation.
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer
2015 - 2016
API and Application for submitting copyrights to the U.S. Copyright Office. Learned the importance of talking to customers before you spend 6 months building something.
Student
2011 - 2015
Lots of on-campus activities: Student Ambassador, UAAP, MIT's Capital Campaign brainstorming committee, USAGE, Maseeh Hall Exec, 2015 Class Council, DanceTroupe Exec, Co-Founded Alpha Sigma Phi Beta Beta chapter, Worked in MIT admissions