Maryanna Saenko is an immigrant systems-thinker from Ukraine who frames her venture investing through the lens of using technology to democratize access to basic human needs like energy, food, and health rather than just generate financial returns. Her deep technical background across robotics, materials, and space—from lunar rovers to Martian landers—gives her an investing edge that lets her connect adjacent technologies others miss, and she co-designed Future Ventures as a 15-year fund with patient capital to back frontier science like fusion and next-generation biology that may take 7-9 years to hit their stride.