Mario Mancuso is the Founder and CEO of DEALSAGE. Few people have sat on all sides of the decisions that define institutional dealmaking — as a senior M&A lawyer, a Presidential advisor who shaped national security policy and made CFIUS decisions, and a combat veteran who learned to act decisively on imperfect information, calibrate confidence around alleged facts, and execute. At Kirkland & Ellis, he founded and led the firm's CFIUS and National Security practice, and was consistently ranked by peers as one of the world's leading lawyers in the field.

Before Kirkland, he was a Senate-confirmed Presidential appointee serving as Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations, and member of the Global Markets Board of the National Intelligence Council. He built DEALSAGE to bring that integrated intelligence to every institutional transaction.

Co-Founder and CTO of DEALSAGE, Rob Wise previously co-founded Aumni, the institutional standard for VC portfolio analytics, which was acquired by JPMorgan Chase in 2023.

Rob knows what it takes to build software that institutional investors and their counsel will trust with sensitive deal data: production-grade infrastructure, AI expertise, rigorous information security, and the kind of data integrity that survives scrutiny from the world's most demanding legal and compliance teams.

Co-Founder of DEALSAGE, spent more than 20 years as Chief Legal Officer of New Enterprise Associates (NEA), overseeing thousands of private investments across the U.S., Europe, and Asia.

He currently serves on the board of Nasdaq Private Market. He brings deep expertise in private market transactions, investor relations, and long-term capital stewardship.