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May Habib
May Habib is the co-founder and CEO of Writer, a full-stack enterprise generative AI platform valued at $1.9 billion. Born in rural Lebanon and raised in Canada after her family immigrated when she was eight, she studied Economics and Near Eastern Languages at Harvard before stints at Lehman Brothers and Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund Mubadala. She co-founded Writer in 2020 with Waseem AlShikh - making a contrarian bet to build proprietary LLMs (the Palmyra family) 18 months before ChatGPT - and has grown it into a platform serving 250+ enterprise clients including Uber, Salesforce, L'Oreal, and Intuit, raising $326M in total funding.
Writer
Writer is a full-stack generative AI platform built for the Fortune 500. Founded in 2020 by May Habib and Waseem AlShikh, the company trains its own family of Palmyra LLMs and pairs them with an agent studio, knowledge graph, and guardrails - so banks, retailers, and healthcare giants can deploy AI without renting another vendor's model.