Matt Stallone

≫ nextbyte.ai (YC) | Ex LLM Training @ IBM Research | Ex MIT

Founder

Tweeks.io· Winter 2025 San Francisco Bay Area

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2025Founder· NextByte (YC W25)

Founder · since 2025

Company

NextByte (YC W25)

Role

Founder & Chief Humor Officer

current

Stage

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no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

San Francisco Bay Area

current

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Winter 2025

Experience

Career

NextByte (YC W25)
Founder
Founder & Chief Humor Officer · San Francisco Bay Area · 2025 – Present
2025
IBM
AI Architect | Researcher · 2023 – 2025
2023
IBM
Distributed Engineer (MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab) · 2022 – 2023
2022
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Teacher Assistant · 2021 – 2022
2021

Bio

Co-founder of NextByte. Before tackling agents, Matt was leading the post-training of Foundation Language Models at IBM Research, working on major releases including the Granite model series. During his career, he published multiple first author papers on his LLM research. He is classically trained in ML and Distributed Systems and holds Master's and Bachelor's degrees from MIT in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.