Stephanie Palmeri brings early operator experience from both large companies like Accenture and Estée Lauder and multiple startups, giving her empathy for founders navigating both product development and go-to-market challenges before entering venture capital. She focuses on "everyday economy" products that reshape how people live and work, particularly in education, future of work, financial health, and marketplaces, while maintaining an operator-to-investor mentoring style where she works closely with seed founders on organization design, hiring, and business model decisions.

• A strong interest in the intersection of AI and education, specifically platforms that redesign the everyday economy by solving real-world friction. She frequently highlights GetSchoolAI as a prime example, praising its ability to adapt to learning styles and its rapid adoption across millions of classrooms to help teachers without adding to their workload.
• Valuing authentic founder backgrounds where the entrepreneur has lived the problem they are solving. She pointed to Caleb Hicks’ journey from middle school teacher to EdTech leader as giving him a prepared mind, and praised Riley’s founder for building a community of product leaders before writing a single line of code.
• Investments in digital health infrastructure that address systemic shortages and improve access to care. Her enthusiasm for Zivian Health centers on its mission to solve compliance issues in healthcare deserts and support advanced practice providers so they can focus on patients rather than bureaucracy.
• Excitement for AI tools that empower teams to make smarter decisions by cutting through noise. She highlighted Riley as a personalized product insights assistant and Anagram for using LLMs to aggregate e-commerce data, showing a pattern of backing tools that turn raw data into actionable business intelligence.
• A commitment to high-conviction, hands-on support for early-stage founders, often emphasizing the human side of company building. She spoke warmly about the authentic connections formed at a founder retreat in Santa Cruz and frequently credits her partners for their transparent, educational content on navigating the idea maze and fundraising process.
• Support for diverse founders and busting stereotypes regarding what women build. She amplified data from BBG Ventures showing that female founders are building heavily in hard science categories like biotech and AI, rather than just consumer companies, and celebrated investments in women's sports.