Investing Profile

Lorenzo Thione(1845)

VCInvestorFormer CEOFounder
Managing Director at Gaingels, Investor in 500+ companies
gaingels.com/teamChicago, Illinois
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Lorenzo Thione's investing connections

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65 Investors

Connected to James Currier (NFX), Charles Hudson (Precursor Ventures), David Samuel (Freestyle Capital), and 62 other investors on Signal.

Networks Lorenzo is a member of
Microsoft Network
152 CONNECTIONS
The University of Texas at Austin Network
61 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position
Gaingels Managing Director
Investment Range
$100K - $5.0M
Sweet Spot
$500K
Investments On Record
40

Lorenzo Thione is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

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Lorenzo Thione's Investments On Record (36)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Turing
Series EMar 2025$110M
Series BSep 2020$32M
$290M
Co-investors: Kabir Narang (B Capital Group), Karen Page (B Capital Group), Gary Little (Canvas Ventures), Sunil Rajaraman (Sequoia Capital), Igor Ryabenkiy (Altair Capital Management), Anton Simunovic (Alumni Ventures ), Ellen Ma (UpHonest Capital), Saeed Amidi (Plug & Play Ventures), Wei Guo (UpHonest Capital), Sundeep Ahuja (Climate Capital), Auren Hoffman (Flex Capital), Ashu Garg (Foundation Capital), Luigi Bajetti (LombardStreet Ventures), Binh Tran (Ascend Vietnam Ventures), Eddie Thai (Ascend Vietnam Ventures), Faizan Khan (Unchained Capital, Inc.), Andre De Baubigny (Modern Venture Partners), Daniel Ibri (Mindset Ventures), James Conigliaro (Array Ventures), Ariel Jaduszliwer (BrainStorm Ventures), Bryan Ciambella (Peak State Ventures), Seva Zakharov (Peak State Ventures), Dmitry Alimov (Frontier Ventures), Cyan Banister (Long Journey Ventures), Xavier Ponce de León (Ideas & Capital), Kelly Graziadei (F7 Ventures), Jeff Morris, Jr. (Chapter One Ventures), Greg Back (FreeSky Capital), Huican Zhu (AMINO Capital), Qiang "Larry" Li (AMINO Capital), Nader Motamedy (Safar Partners), Frank Taylor (Virginia Venture Partners), Keisuke Honda (Dreamers VC), Christopher Nguyen, Adam D'Angelo, Jed Ng, Scott Banister, Sue Xu, Gokul Rajaram, Eric Bunting, Kintan Brahmbhatt, Sahin Boydas, Siqi Chen, Clark Landry, Marat Kichikov
Openmart
SeedAug 2024$3M
$3.5M
Co-investors: Wei Guo (UpHonest Capital), Anamitra Banerji (Afore Capital), Gaurav Jain (Afore Capital), Rachel Lam (Imagination Capital), Gustaf Alströmer (Y Combinator), Salil Deshpande (Uncorrelated Ventures), Yun-Fang Juan (Brighter Capital), Garry Tan (Y Combinator)
Limbic
Series AMar 2024$14M
$14M
Co-investors: Vinod Khosla (Khosla Ventures), Andrew Gault (7percent Ventures)
Leap AI
SeedJan 2024$1M
$1M
Co-investors: Furqan Rydhan, Hubert Thieblot
SpecCheck
SeedOct 2023$4M
$4M
Co-investors: Garry Tan (Y Combinator), Jennifer Wolf
Paxton
SeedSep 2023$6M
$28M
Co-investors: George Damouny (Plug & Play Ventures), Lars Albright (Unusual Ventures), Linus Liang (Signia Venture Partners), Jason Franklin (XStarPartners), John Vrionis (Unusual Ventures), Diane Fraiman (Voyager Capital), Andrew Ng (AI Fund)
BetterBrand
Series AJun 2023$6M
$9M
Co-investors: Alexis Ohanian (Seven Seven Six), Kyle Vogt, Chris Hollod
Zamp
SeedMay 2023$4M
$29M
Co-investors: Sandeep Nailwal (Polygon), Paul Grossinger (Gaingels), Wei Guo (UpHonest Capital), Jon Oringer (Pareto Holdings), Doug Chertok (Vast Ventures), Masha Bucher (Day One Ventures), Mir Faiyaz (Soma Capital), Aneel Ranadive (Soma Capital), John Fogelsong (Friends & Family Capital), Aniq Rahman (Vast Ventures), Drake Austin Rehfeld (Day One Ventures), Sumeet Gajri (Original Capital), Kirthiga Reddy (F7 Ventures), Brad Garlinghouse, Yahya Mokhtarzada, Jonathan Wasserstrum, Matt Mickiewicz, Paul Holland, Gokul Rajaram

Lorenzo Thione's Experience

Managing Director Gaingels2019 - Present
Co-Founder & Chairman of The Board The Social Edge2013 - Present
Co-Founder & Chairman Emeritus StartOut2009 - Present
Managing Partner Sing Out, Louise! Productions2008 - Present
Member Board Of Directors Kenzen2017 - 2019
Member Board of Directors Algebraix Data Corporation2014 - 2017
Co-Founder, President & Chairman Artify It2012 - 2014
Principal Program Manager, Powerset/Bing Microsoft2008 - 2010
Founder & Product Architect Powerset, Inc.2006 - 2008
CoFounder and Chief Architect PowerSet2005 - 2008
Sr. Research Scientist Commercenet Consortium2006 - 2006
Research Scientist FX Palo Alto Laboratory2003 - 2006
Research Assistant University of Texas2001 - 2002

Lorenzo Thione's Education

The University of Texas at Austin Master of Science in Engineering Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Texas at Austin MSE Computer Engineering
Politecnico di Milano BSE Equivalence Computer Engineering