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Matt Stallone

Founder

Founder at Tweeks.io

San Francisco Bay Area

FoundedTweeks.io · YC

About

Matt Stallone co-founded NextByte and previously led post-training work on foundation language models at IBM Research, including the Granite model series. He holds Master's and Bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from MIT and has published research in machine learning.

Founder at Tweeks.ioYC W25

Intro paths

YC

Matt went through Y Combinator (Winter 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

GP

Their group partner at YC was Garry Tan, President & CEO of Y Combinator — the partner who ran Tweeks.io's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Matt can intro founders to Tweeks.io's investors below.

Tweeks.io's investors · 1

Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2025

Co-founders at Tweeks.io

JMJason Madeano
Jason MadeanoFounder

Experience

  1. NextByte (YC W25)Founder & Chief Humor Officercurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  2. IBMAI Architect | Researcher2023 — 2025
  3. IBMDistributed Engineer (MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab)2022 — 2023
  4. Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyTeacher Assistant2021 — 2022

Skills & more

Java4Python (Programming Language)2PyTorchPythonDatabasesSoftware Construction4TypeScriptDistributed SystemsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Go (Programming Language)Hugging FaceKubernetes
+2 moreGenerative AILarge Language Models (LLM)

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Matt Stallone?
Matt Stallone co-founded NextByte and previously led post-training work on foundation language models at IBM Research, including the Granite model series. He holds Master's and Bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from MIT and has published research in machine learning.
Where does Matt Stallone work?
Matt Stallone is Founder of Tweeks.io.
What companies did Matt Stallone found?
Matt Stallone founded Tweeks.io.
Where did Matt Stallone go to school?
Matt Stallone studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Master's degree, Computer Science); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science); Y Combinator (Startup Accelerator).

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Jason MadeanoFounder at Tweeks.io

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