Building Your First FDE Team
The playbook to your first Forward Deployed Engineering team. From Palantir's early FDE.
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Forward Deployed VC
Forward Deployed VC (FDVC) is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in defense, energy, industrials, and AI. Founded by Mark Scianna, a former Palantir forward-deployed engineer who spent 11 years deployed with U.S. and allied forces, the firm backs founders with operational and technical backgrounds in mission-critical sectors.
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Teardown: Talent Mafias
c/o Forward Deployed VC, backs early-stage teams modernizing critical American industries.
Recent News
FDVC-Backed Turion Space Raises $75M+ Series B
FDVC participated as an existing investor in Turion Space's $75M+ Series B, led by Washington Harbour Partners. Turion builds maneuverable satellites for space domain awareness — a core FDVC thesis area.
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