Speaker: Startup Space 2018 Entrepreneur Pitch Contest

Maryanna Saenko recently joined the venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ). Previously, Ms. Saenko was Director of Ventures at A3, focused on developing and supporting seed-stage investments in aerospace and adjacent domains. Prior to that, she led Lux Research's autonomous systems group where she traveled the world and spoke about robots. Ms. Saenko completed her undergraduate and Master's degrees from Carnegie Mellon University, following which she became a research engineer and worked on projects ranging from autonomous vehicles to MEMS devices for wireless power transfer.