I'm Mark Scianna, an investor focused on the world's most important missions. Together with investors, we support engineers bringing technology to the front lines of our biggest challenges and opportunities:

- National Security

- Public Safety

- Transportation

- Clean Energy

- Decarbonization

- Biotech, Healthcare

As an operator, most of my experience was at Palantir, where I was a founding member of their defense team, spending 11 years as a forward deployed engineer. I was the team lead for “Palantir Forward” (the basis for an 800M Army contract), and “Palantir Mobile” (a product used by federal law enforcement). In support of our customers, I had the privilege to deploy to Afghanistan, Iraq, Germany, Japan, and the Horn of Africa. We not only developed life saving products, but also built an incredibly valuable business: revenue grew from zero to billions, and the company IPO'd in 2020.

As a venture investor, I got my start in 2010 by participating in Palantir’s Series D round, becoming the only employee to purchase preferred shares. In 2014 I began attending and investing at Y Combinator Demo Days. In 2018 I completed YC's Startup Investor School.

Notable Investments:

- Palantir, 2010 Series D

- Statuspage.io, 2014 Seed (status and incident communication)

- GBatteries, 2014 Seed (ultra-fast battery charging for drones, tools, vehicles)

- Oklo, 2015 Seed (micro-reactors powered by nuclear waste, decades of clean power)

- Lyft, 2015 (transportation/delivery)

- Paladin Drones, 2018 Seed (live overhead view for first responders)

- Biobot Analytics, 2018 Seed (wastewater epidemiology, community health metrics)

- Sixfold Bioscience, 2018 Seed (targeted mRNA therapies)

- Adyton, 2019 First Investor (mobile defense tech)

- AmpUp, 2019 Seed (smart ev charging network)

- Lumineye, 2019 Seed (wall-penetrating radar)

- Abatable, 2021 Seed (carbon offset procurement)

- Govly, 2021 Seed (improve govt contracting)