HUMAN ENABLEMENT

Marta Palmeiro

Marta Palmeiro is a banker turned investor turned entrepreneur, on a mission to turn potential into real impact.
With a career spanning investment banking, venture capital, fintech, blockchain, and now artificial intelligence, she has consistently worked at the intersection of technology, innovation, and transformation.
She is the founder of Mydra, where she focuses on building AI fluency in people and teams. Rather than offering theory, Mydra equips domain experts with practical systems to architect AI solutions themselves, bridging the gap between learning AI and executing with it.
The company evolved from StudentFinance, where Marta helped raise over $40M to expand access to future-ready skills.
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"The tech stack will soon become the reason why you stay or leave a company”

“We’ve all had our IKEA moment.” We’ve used AI to assemble something — a presentation, a workflow, a piece of analysis. But Marta Palmeiro draws a sharp distinction: “It’s one thing to assemble a piece of furniture; it’s quite another to design an entire house.” The problem is no longer technology. “Technology is no longer the problem.” The problem is organisational design. Companies are adopting AI in fragments, without rethinking how work actually happens. Without coherence, they scale confusion. The real challenge is to redesign systems — how decisions are made, how teams operate, and where humans create value. AI does not fail organisations. Organisations fail to reinvent themselves at the pace AI demands.
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