Stephanie Palmeri

early-stage investor. twibling mama (iykyk). travel addict. food fanatic. music lover. physical therapy connoisseur. jersey shore → nyc → sf

[Stephanie Palmeri @stephpalmeri]

@bbstepstone @NextViewVC thanks as always for you unending support and looking forward to catching up soon I hope!

[Stephanie Palmeri @stephpalmeri]

After four years at @NextViewVC, I'm stepping into a new chapter. I moved from Partner to Venture Partner and will keep supporting portfolio companies as a board member and advisor while I turn my attention to what's ahead. On what matters in this work: https://t.co/smr7pSEyZe

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@KuruvillaMaju @NextViewVC thanks, exciting times ahead!

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@andrewmnguyen @NextViewVC thanks!

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@MichaelKuz @NextViewVC Thanks!

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@micahjay1 @NextViewVC thanks Micah!!!

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@lucktm @NextViewVC Thanks, will be fun!

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@MattGoldenVP Me too my friend!

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@leehower Thanks, Lee. Appreciate the years of building and learning together.

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@David_Mort @NextViewVC Thanks! Feels that way to me too, hard to think of a better moment to rethink this work.

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@robgo Thanks Rob, that means a lot. Grateful for these four years and everything we built together."

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@tonyadam @NextViewVC Thank you... and happy early birthday fellow Virgo

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This feels like exactly the right moment to be curious about what comes next. If you're building something ambitious, rethinking how investing gets done, or think there's someone I should meet, my DMs are open.📬

[Stephanie Palmeri @stephpalmeri]

Sitting in San Francisco in the most exciting technology wave of my career, with venture itself being rethought, I've never been more motivated to find exceptional people and spot what others don't yet see. The conversations I'm having are already stretching my thinking. 🌉

[Stephanie Palmeri @stephpalmeri]

Authentic, relentless, inevitable. You can also read more @NextViewVC's investement in @SkyfallAI and why I was compelled to back @spisallyouneed at inception on the @NextViewVenture blog. 📖

https://t.co/26O4xZDtim

[Stephanie Palmeri @stephpalmeri]

1/ Congrats to @SkyfallAI on coming out of stealth. Sam Pasupalak (@spisallyouneed) and Kaheer Suleman built Maluuba (acquired by Microsoft in 2017), working alongside RL pioneers years before the rest of the industry caught up. Now, they're back to solve a harder problem. 🧵

[Sam Pasupalak @spisallyouneed]

Around 15 years ago, Kaheer Suleman and I started Maluuba with the vision of building Universal Turing Machines. Back then, we were one of the pioneer research labs building foundational modules of deep learning and Reinforcement learning with Turing award winners @Yoshua_Bengio and @RichardSSutton. There was no AI hype then, as there is now. Those were the good old days of doing pure scientific research unlike the n+1 research that we see today. Maluuba was later acquired by Microsoft and became @MSFTResearch Canada.

Grounded in that same mission, we're finally ready to introduce @skyfallai to the world after a lot of experimentation in stealth over the last year. We're a frontier neo lab building the first Autonomous Enterprise by moving beyond the current LLM paradigm.

For the last 5 years, the foundational model market has relied on a single paradigm: scaling laws for LLMs - more data, more compute, bigger models. However, the real world is messy and much more complicated. In order to achieve our long term vision, the next generation of AI models requires a different approach. Skyfall is solving the hardest open problems in frontier AI: long-horizon planning, data inefficiency, and brittle performance in dynamic real-world environments.

To achieve the team's vision of a completely autonomous enterprise, the team is developing a next-generation frontier model (Enterprise World Models) using Continual Learning and World Modeling. Enterprise World Models can simulate the multi-layered consequences of strategic business actions. Our approach unlocks a new category in the foundation model market. To prove it, we're introducing Morpheus, a Continual Reinforcement Learning platform for AI researchers.

I'm building this company with the people I trust the most: my longtime friend Kaheer Suleman (prev. Co-Founder of Maluuba) and my brother @omgiamgod (prev. YC founder). Sumit and Kaheer are the first principles thinkers I can trust to go to the end of the world with to achieve the mission impossible together. Together with a stellar team of 25 researchers and engineers, we're pushing a new frontier in AI forward.

We unpacked our long term vision in today’s Forbes feature 🔗- read it to see what we’re building toward. Thank you so much Victor Dey for the interview.

To achieve our goal of enterprise world models, we are soliciting bids to acquire small SaaS startups (up to $1M) and fully automate them. If you’re interested, submit your business here: https://t.co/w8ayopZFLH

Finally, thank you to our investors and advisors for believing in our vision since day one: @Fidelity , @sk121 (@touringcapital), @karam_n and @chrisarsenault (@inovia), @morgan_blumberg (@M13Company ), @stephpalmeri (@NextViewVC ), and @michaellitt and @mmccauley (@GarageCapital ), @jennydhe, @fchollet @NaveenGRao and so many others for supporting us in this journey.

[Stephanie Palmeri @stephpalmeri]

Read more about what @Forbes has to say about @skyfallai 👇
https://t.co/GeXQIK6ZhY

[NextView @NextViewVC]

Still buzzing from last week's SF @Techweek_ NextView events 🔥

We brought together 200+ founders, operators, and VCs for two incredible sessions on building in the AI era:

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Are we in 'warp zone or bust' times? My partner @Robgo has put together his thoughts on fast cars, express trains, and the warp zone as it relates to venture-backed companies in today's climate. 🏎️🚄🌪️

Have a look 👀👇

[Rob Go @robgo]

There has been a lot of discussion about the bifurcation of the venture market that we are currently witnessing. One way I like to think about it is that VC backed companies are choosing to either ride the express train or jump into a warp zone.