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Maria Gilfoyle

Maria Gilfoyle

Stanford MBA Candidate

San Francisco Bay Area, United StatesVenture Capital & Private Equity
Company
26 Fund
Title
Managing Partner
Seniority
Partner
Department
C Suite
Location
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Industry
Venture Capital & Private Equity

About

Growing up, I wanted to be an artist. Today, I see entrepreneurs as the contemporary artists of our era. Throughout my life, I've studied fine art and design, driven by the joy of creating something new. This passion later ignited my interest in entrepreneurship, computer science, and finance. Just as a sculptor shapes a block of marble, an entrepreneur must decide which strategies to prioritize and which to discard. Like artists, software developers and technology entrepreneurs use elements from the past to shape the future, transforming the unimaginable into the inevitable. During college, I founded a blog called The Power Thread, where I interviewed over 100 female entrepreneurs and artists about their creative work and what power means to them. The blog grew to more than 15,000 readers, introducing me to the VC and angel investor ecosystem. This led me to join Madrona Venture Group as an Investor, where I had the privilege to invest in and work closely with startups reimagining how…

Experience

Managing Partner

26 Fund

Present

~$2M venture fund raised by our 2026 Stanford GSB class, investing in companies founded by people in our class.

Mba Summer Analyst

Lone Pine Capital LLC · New York, NY

L/S Public Equities

Scout

Madrona

Principal

Madrona · Seattle, Washington, United States

Worked on Seed-Series C investments in Intelligent Applications, Marketplaces, Internet Applications, Infrastructure, and more. Investments and Board Observer roles included: CommerceIQ: https://commerceiq.ai/ Rec Room: https://recroom.com/ TrovaTrip: https://www.linkedin.com/redir/suspicious-page?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftrovatrip%2ecom%2F Clerk: https://clerk.com/ RunwayML: https://runwayml.com/ Visual Layer: https://www.visual-layer.com/ Rhythms AI: https://www.getrhythms.ai/

Investor

Madrona Venture Group · Seattle, Washington, United States

Madrona is a Venture Capital firm focused on investing in early-stage technology companies. The firm has helped entrepreneurs launch and grow world-class companies including Amazon, Apptio, Coda, Common Room, Isilon Systems, Rec Room, Redfin, Rover, Smartsheet, Snowflake, and more.

Product Manager - Video Ai

Typeface · Seattle, Washington, United States

Technical Product Manager focused on Typeface's Gen AI video product initial launch and roadmap.

Assistant Merchant / Product Strategy

Gap Inc. · New York, New York, United States

Rotational Management Program

Gap Inc. · Greater New York City Area

Founder

The Power Thread · Greater New York City Area

Media company with 15K+ readers and ad revenue

Education

Stanford University Graduate School of Business

Master of Business Administration - MBA

Washington University in St. Louis

Bachelor of Science - BS, Business Administration and Management, Fine Art & Design

University of Chicago Laboratory Schools

High School Diploma

University of the Arts London

Study Abroad

Rhode Island School of Design

Pre-College Summer Program

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