About
Dino Mavrookas co-founded Saronic Technologies in 2022 to build autonomous unmanned surface vessels for the US Navy and allied forces, ranging from the six-foot Spyglass to the 180-foot Marauder. He served eleven years as a Navy SEAL with eight combat tours, including time at the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, before moving into private equity at Vista Equity Partners where he led technology investments across government, cybersecurity, finance, and energy. Saronic raised $1.75 billion in March 2026 led by Kleiner Perkins, doubling its valuation to $9.25 billion, and won a $392 million Navy production contract for its 24-foot Corsair USV. Mavrookas's argument is that the US surface fleet has to be at least half unmanned to be defensible, and that the boats need to be cheap enough to lose, something American shipbuilding has not done at volume in decades.
Previous roles
- Technology-investment role, Vista Equity Partners
- Navy SEAL, U.S. Navy (11 years; eight combat tours)
Notable work
- Corsair, Mirage, and Marauder autonomous surface vessels
- Echelon autonomous-fleet command-and-control platform
- Port Alpha next-generation shipyard
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