Mark Scianna
General Partner at Forward Deployed Investor
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2022 - Current
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.
Forward Deployed VC invests in clean energy, biotech, and healthcare companies.
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
Percipient.ai is a provider of an artificial intelligence advanced analytics platform designed to provide solutions for Intelligence.
Raised $87,199,995.00 from Valor Equity Partners, Venrock, AlleyCorp and Lupa Systems.
Angel Investor
2010 - 2022
Y Combinator Startup Investor School Alum, 2018 12 years, 25 companies, 10x DPI, 33% IRR Notable Investments: - Palantir - Oklo - Anduril
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.
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.
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.
TPx Communications - Assets provides business internet, phone and data services.
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.