Ryan Nowicki Stewart

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@rywicks

Co-Founder & CEO @pennant_ai (YC S26). Building AI-native solutions for public markets. @PalantirTech Startup Fellowship.
Created @govarena.

San Francisco, CA github.com/RJNS-AI Joined October 2011

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Ryan Nowicki Stewart @rywicks Aug 12

Our team at @pennant_ai is building the Corporate Governance OS for the next age of public markets. We're proud and incredibly excited to be launching with @ycombinator today.

We know this market and the pain points we are solving for firsthand, and we are thrilled to be defining a new way forward.

Lots of hard work to get here and plenty more ahead, grateful to be on this journey with @0xtotaylor!

If you touch proxy voting, shareholder activism or corporate governance, and want to shake things up, let's talk.

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Ryan Nowicki Stewart @rywicks 6d

What a week on the road in the 'Boom Belt'! 🇨🇱 🇺🇸

Seeing clients and industry partners across Texas, Georgia, Florida and beyond was energizing as always, and we're thrilled to be serving institutional investors across the region with the world's third largest GDP.

Highlights from @BloombergLive:
- Leadership from the @TXStockExchange, @NYSETexas and @Nasdaq Texas shared developments and trends across reincorporation and dual-listing activity
-@Walmart shared the issuer perspective on empowering an AI-enabled workforce and looking for partners with a shared emphasis on a people-led, tech-powered approach
- @RossPerotJr and @DM_Rubenstein spoke about the culture, values, environment that are providing a competitive advantage in attracting talent, capital, and investment
- The legendary Elaine Agather shared her wisdom on what's different in markets (and the same) this time around, and shared breaking news that she will be riding in the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo for her 38th straight year

A few facts about the 'Belt':
- Home to 1 in 4 U.S. Large Public Companies (126 HQ'd in the Fortune 500)
- 40% of total US Exports
- $8.9T Annualized GDP, #3 behind US and China

Looking forward to more travels across the US and beyond this month as we stay on the frontier of an evolving governance landscape.

(P.S. Chile was as close as I could get to the Lone Star flag working with limited emoji library)

Ryan Nowicki Stewart @rywicks Nov 1

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Ryan Nowicki Stewart @rywicks Oct 26

Thank you @business for covering our progress, we're thrilled for what's next and grateful to our clients, investors and partners.
Signed, former BBG A-desk intern (circa summer 2015).

Pennant Verified account @pennant_ai Oct 26

Corporate governance is entering a new era of technology-driven transformation.

In a new feature for @Bloomberg , Frances Schwartzkopff covers Pennant's recent seed financing led by Urban Innovation Fund, our participation in @ycombinator and the @PalantirTech Startup Fellowship, and the growing pressure on traditional proxy advisory infrastructure.

For decades, financial markets have invested heavily in technology for trading, portfolio management and investment research, while corporate governance and stewardship have remained comparatively underserved. That is beginning to change.

At Pennant, we're building AI-native infrastructure that enables institutional investors to make independent, informed proxy voting decisions at scale, grounded in their own investment principles and policies.

As our Co-Founder & CEO @rywicks told Bloomberg, Pennant is “a technology partner and a facilitator, not an influencer.” Our role is to empower investors' judgment, not replace it.

Thank you to Frances and Bloomberg for featuring Pennant and highlighting the transformation underway in institutional proxy voting.

Read the full article in the comments below.

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Ryan Nowicki Stewart @rywicks Oct 20

Thank you @Fondocom and @thestartpod, grateful to be our investors, partners and our clients on this journey with us!

START Verified account @thestartpod Oct 20

BREAKING 🚨 @pennant_ai, co-founded by @rywicks (CEO) and @0xtotaylor (CTO), raised a $5M seed round led by Urban Innovation Fund with participation from @ycombinator and a group of strategic angel investors, to build the world model for corporate governance, starting with proxy voting.

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