Maria (Brewer) Palma

General Partner at Freestyle Capital. Investing in amazing technical founders. Writing on Substack @unconstrained

📍 New York, New York, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 3 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2025
VC🌍 United States
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Lead Investor
Jun 2025
Kortix is your AI Workforce that actually listens, understands, and delivers. Built to move fast and get things done.
Lead Investor & Board Member
Mar 2025
Infinity incubates companies focused on AI service businesses, combining repeat founders with world class applied AI engineers creating the next generation of service industries.
Lead Investor
Jan 2025
Maneva AI revolutionizes manufacturing by offering a superhuman digital workforce tailored to the industrys unique needs. Our AI empowers factories to streamline operations, cut costs, and enhance productivity. Designed specifically for manufacturing, Maneva AI delivers a range of benefits, from reducing labor dependencies and enhancing quality assurance to eliminating downtime and preserving critical knowledge. Our seamless implementation ensures swift integration into existing workflows, guaranteeing remarkable returns on investment for manufacturers across America. Even tasks once deemed unautomatable are effortlessly handled by Maneva AI. Many challenges facing manufacturing companies, too intricate for costly automation projects, find solutions in our intelligent systems. Leveraging manufacturing-specific intelligence, Maneva AI consistently proves its efficacy, bringing companies closer to a future-proof state. Experience tangible, profitable, and tactical results with Maneva AI. Reach out now to discover how we can drive immediate impact for your business!
Lead Investor & Board Member
Dec 2024
Staris is a product security validation platform that continuously discovers, proves, and helps remediate real exploitable vulnerabilities in modern applications. Staris replaces traditional scanners and manual penetration testing with continuous, AI-driven application security validation.
Investor
Nov 2024
Nebestas mission is to revolutionize customer service by not only introducing AI-powered solutions but also redesigning organizational processes to become AI-ready.
Lead Investor & Board Member
Oct 2024
Your customers will bank through conversation. The question is whether that happens inside your walls or outside them. Payman deploys AI agents that execute real banking transactions. Not answer questions about them. Execute them. Payments, transfers, account management, through voice or text, on your existing core banking rails. Customers say "move enough to cover rent" and the agent understands balances, timing, and context, then executes within your policy guardrails. Every action traced end to end. And every conversation surfaces intent data no transaction record captures. Financial goals, life events, friction points, visible in real-time on your dashboard. We built this for community and regional banks. The same AI capabilities the largest institutions are building internally, deployed on your stack in weeks. Your brand, your experience, your control. Integrates with FIS, Fiserv, Jack Henry, COCC, Narmi, Q2, Alkami, and more. SOC 2 certified. KYC, BSA, and AML compliant. Backed by Visa, Coinbase Ventures, and Circle.
Lead Investor & Board Member
Oct 2024
At Dash Bio, were revolutionizing bioanalysis to expedite drug development. By leveraging robotics and modern software, we deliver higher-quality assays with turnaround times up to 10x faster than the industry average, scaling seamlessly from preclinical through late-stage clinical studies. While drug discovery has been revolutionized with AI and breakthrough modalities, the development phase remains bogged down by manual, labor-intensive processes. Were changing that narrative. Our tech-first products automate critical steps, reducing costs and time to market while improving quality of results. Meet Our Leadership Team: Dave Johnson, CEO: Former Chief Data and AI Officer at Moderna. Ander Tallett, COO: Led Enterprise Systems at Moderna and Resilience. Ely Porter, CSO: Co-founder and CTO of Rootpath. Together, were crafting a future where bioanalysis is intuitive, data flows effortlessly, and drugs reach the market faster than ever before. Join us on this journey. Learn more at dash.bio
Early Investor
Oct 2023
Lovable is a platform that lets you build apps and websites by chatting with AI. We are a small European team of serial founders, product engineers, physicists, competitive programmers and people who just care about building a great product quickly. Were on a mission to build the last piece of software that the world will ever need.
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2025
Lead Investor
Jun 2025
Kortix is your AI Workforce that actually listens, understands, and delivers. Built to move fast and get things done.
Lead Investor & Board Member
Mar 2025
Infinity incubates companies focused on AI service businesses, combining repeat founders with world class applied AI engineers creating the next generation of service industries.
Lead Investor
Jan 2025
Maneva AI revolutionizes manufacturing by offering a superhuman digital workforce tailored to the industrys unique needs. Our AI empowers factories to streamline operations, cut costs, and enhance productivity. Designed specifically for manufacturing, Maneva AI delivers a range of benefits, from reducing labor dependencies and enhancing quality assurance to eliminating downtime and preserving critical knowledge. Our seamless implementation ensures swift integration into existing workflows, guaranteeing remarkable returns on investment for manufacturers across America. Even tasks once deemed unautomatable are effortlessly handled by Maneva AI. Many challenges facing manufacturing companies, too intricate for costly automation projects, find solutions in our intelligent systems. Leveraging manufacturing-specific intelligence, Maneva AI consistently proves its efficacy, bringing companies closer to a future-proof state. Experience tangible, profitable, and tactical results with Maneva AI. Reach out now to discover how we can drive immediate impact for your business!
2024
Lead Investor & Board Member
Dec 2024
Staris is a product security validation platform that continuously discovers, proves, and helps remediate real exploitable vulnerabilities in modern applications. Staris replaces traditional scanners and manual penetration testing with continuous, AI-driven application security validation.
Investor
Nov 2024
Nebestas mission is to revolutionize customer service by not only introducing AI-powered solutions but also redesigning organizational processes to become AI-ready.
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