Maria Gilfoyle

Stanford MBA Candidate

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2023
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Board Observer
Dec 2023
We believe that the success of teams and organizations is governed by their internal rhythms – the fundamental processes that drive every aspect of their operation. Yet, these rhythms are poorly understood and managed in most organizations, resulting in chaotic, siloed, frustrating, unpredictable and uneven performance. We are building an AI-powered operating system to enable enterprises to understand, streamline, and orchestrate their rhythms, elevating the performance of every team to be best-in-class. Our ambition is to transform how teams and businesses operate everyday - to drive higher performance and bring joy into work.
Board Observer
Apr 2023
The worlds most advanced AI visual intelligence platform, Built for scale. Where every frame connects to everything seen before. Turning Billions of Visual Signals Into Actionable Intelligence.
Board Observer
Feb 2023
Clerk is a complete suite of embeddable UIs, flexible APIs, and admin dashboards to authenticate and manage your users.
Board Observer
Feb 2023
Archway Software provides a single access point to seamlessly connect any banking platform to third-party financial software providers, with pre-built integrations.
Investor
Dec 2022
We are building AI to simulate the world through merging art and science. We believe that world models are at the frontier of progress in artificial intelligence. Language models alone won’t solve the world’s hardest problems – robotics, disease, scientific discovery. Real progress requires models that experience the world and learn from their mistakes, the same way that humans do. And this kind of trial and error can be massively accelerated when done in simulation, rather than in the real world. World models offer the most clear path to general-purpose simulation, changing how stories are told, how scientific progress is made and how the next frontiers of humanity are reached. https://runwayml.com/world-simulator
Board Observer
Sep 2022
TrovaTrip offers a platform and marketplace that enables Content Creators to host group trips around the globe with their communities. Offering 150+ unique itineraries in over 50+ countries, TrovaTrip is changing the way people travel through easy to use technology. From summiting Kilimanjaro, practicing yoga in Bali, or hand making pasta in Italy with like-minded individuals, TrovaTrip makes it possible. Founded by a leadership team committed to inclusivity, TrovaTrip's mission is to make travel easier, safer and more accessible to all.
Board Observer
Jan 2022
Rec Room Inc. was founded in April 2016 by a small team with a shared passion for VR, AR, social, and multiplayer experiences. Since then, weve been growing and hiring top talent! Rec Room is the best place to build and play games together. Party up with friends from all around the world to chat, hang out, explore MILLIONS of player-created rooms, or build something new and amazing to share with us all. Rec Room is free, and cross plays on everything from phones to VR headsets. It’s the social app you play like a video game! Rec Room is a fun and welcoming place for people from all walks of life. Let us help you find people you’ll LOVE to hang out with. Join the club!
Board Observer
Nov 2021
CommerceIQ is the pioneer in helping brands win on retail ecommerce channels such as Amazon, Walmart.com, Instacart and 800+ other retailers. Our unified platform applies machine learning and automation across marketing, supply chain, and sales operations to help brands gain market share profitably.
Experience · 16 entries
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Investments (8)
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Board (7)
2025
Managing Partner
Sep 2025
The 26 Fund is a seed fund that invests in businesses founded by entrepreneurs of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Class of 2026.
Summer Associate
Jun 2025
Lone Pine is a research-driven, fundamental equity investor founded in 1997. Since inception, we have focused on developing a leading investment platform that distills global, cross-sector idiosyncratic and thematic research into concentrated portfolios of our best ideas in public or private markets. Our integrated investment team works collaboratively to invest across both public equity and private growth equity to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns for our partners. Please be aware that Lone Pines name, brand, and reputation may be misused by unauthorized third parties. We do not provide investment advice or otherwise solicit capital via social media, including LinkedIn and Facebook, or encrypted chat platforms, including Telegram, WhatsApp, or Signal. If you receive a communication that appears suspicious, please report it to us at hrcontacts@lpcap.com.
2024
Co-Founder
Sep 2024
Stealth AI Startup is a private community for founders, researchers, and engineers building next-generation AI companies before public launch. Founders tag themselves here to: 🔹 Gain credibility while working in stealth 🔹 Connect discreetly with other AI founders 🔹 Receive inbound interest from early-stage VCs 🔹 Join curated founder-only circles & discussions 🔹 Access hiring pipelines for early team building If youre building an AI startup in stealth, add your profile to the community and tag yourself to this page. Your stealth journey deserves visibility — without revealing your idea. Join the world’s largest AI stealth founder network.
2023
Principal
Dec 2023
Seed, early stage and acceleration stage investor and partner for founders. Investing for over 30 years in machine learning, AI, marketplaces, infra, devops, and biotech startups.
Board Observer
Dec 2023
We believe that the success of teams and organizations is governed by their internal rhythms – the fundamental processes that drive every aspect of their operation. Yet, these rhythms are poorly understood and managed in most organizations, resulting in chaotic, siloed, frustrating, unpredictable and uneven performance. We are building an AI-powered operating system to enable enterprises to understand, streamline, and orchestrate their rhythms, elevating the performance of every team to be best-in-class. Our ambition is to transform how teams and businesses operate everyday - to drive higher performance and bring joy into work.
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