Maria Palma is the solo GP of Unconstrained, a lead seed and pre-seed fund in Deep Tech & AI, and is raising a $75M Fund I. She has spent a decade in venture capital in New York, London and San Francisco after a career on the operating side, investing in companies including Lovable, Dash Bio, Infinity, Maneva and Unframe. She is joined part time by Enrique Sarap, a Sequoia scout and AI founder, as Venture Partner, and by David Bill as CTO.
Maria Palma is the solo GP of Unconstrained, a lead seed and pre-seed fund in Deep Tech & AI, and is raising a $75M Fund I. She has spent a decade in venture capital in New York, London and San Francisco after a career on the operating side, investing in companies including Lovable, Dash Bio, Infinity, Maneva and Unframe. She is joined part time by Enrique Sarap, a Sequoia scout and AI founder, as Venture Partner, and by David Bill as CTO.
Career
Maria Palma holds an MBA (2013) from Harvard Business School and a BS, Industrial Engineering (2007) from University of Wisconsin–Madison.
General Partner at Freestyle Capital until Present
General Partner at Kindred Capital from 2021 to 2024Invested in European seed-stage technology companies.UOAdvisory Board Member, Industrial & Systems Engineering at University of Wisconsin–Madison from 2019 to 2022Advised the department on curriculum, student experience and program funding.
IBoard Member at Inkomoko from 2016 to 2022Served on the board of the nonprofit formerly known as African Entrepreneur Collective.
NBCo-Founder and President at NYC BLEND from 2017 to 2020Co-founded a nonprofit connecting underrepresented founders with relevant venture investors.
Principal at RRE Ventures until 2020Invested in early-stage companies after building the firm’s platform team.EChief of Staff to the CEO at Eyeview from 2014-06 to 2015-10Worked with the leadership team as the advertising technology company expanded.
EGSocial Investment Council and Direct Impact at Echoing Green from 2012-08 to 2015-09Volunteered to advise social entrepreneurs and support a nonprofit board-leadership program.
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Jenny LefcourtGeneral Partner at Freestyle
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