Investing Profile

Lorenzo Thione(1966)

VCInvestorFormer CEOFounder
Managing Director at Gaingels
gaingels.com/teamChicago, Illinois
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69 Investors

Connected to James Currier (NFX), Charles Hudson (Precursor Ventures), David Samuel (Freestyle Capital), and 66 other investors on Signal.

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Current Investing Position
Gaingels Managing Director
Investment Range
$100K - $5.0M
Sweet Spot
$500K
Investments On Record
42

Lorenzo Thione is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

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Lorenzo Thione's Investments On Record (38)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Ashby
Series DJul 2025$50M
$120M
Co-investors: Lachy Groom (Stripe), Elad Gil (Think Colorado), Terrence Rohan (Robinhood), Mark McLaughlin (Alkeon Capital), Justin Ziebell (Indeed.com)
Turing
Series EMar 2025$110M
Series BSep 2020$32M
$270M
Co-investors: Gary Little (Canvas Ventures), Karen Page (B Capital Group), Sunil Rajaraman (Sequoia Capital), Igor Ryabenkiy (Altair Capital Management), Saeed Amidi (Plug & Play Ventures), Wei Guo (UpHonest Capital), Matt Murphy (Menlo Ventures), Anton Simunovic (Alumni Ventures ), Ellen Ma (UpHonest Capital), Sundeep Ahuja (Climate Capital), Ashu Garg (Foundation Capital), Keisuke Honda (Dreamers VC), Luigi Bajetti (LombardStreet Ventures), Eddie Thai (Ascend Vietnam Ventures), Binh Tran (Ascend Vietnam Ventures), Huican Zhu (AMINO Capital), Qiang "Larry" Li (AMINO Capital), Ariel Jaduszliwer (BrainStorm Ventures), Bryan Ciambella (Proof Group), Xavier Ponce de León (Ideas & Capital), Jed Ng (GroWrk), Kelly Graziadei (F7 Ventures), Siqi Chen (Invesco Private Capital), Seva Zakharov (Peak State Ventures), Jeff Morris, Jr. (Chapter One Ventures), Greg Back (FreeSky Capital), Dmitry Alimov (Frontier Ventures), Scott Banister (Long Journey Ventures), Gokul Rajaram (gokulrajaram.com), Auren Hoffman (Datavant), Cyan Banister (Long Journey Ventures), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor), Andre De Baubigny (Modern Venture Partners), Clark Landry (CESPPA), Chris Moreno (Xeal), Frank Taylor (Virginia Venture Partners), Adam D'Angelo, Christopher Nguyen, Shariq Rizvi, Marat Kichikov, Sue Xu, Eric Bunting, Kintan Brahmbhatt
Openmart
SeedAug 2024$3M
$3.5M
Co-investors: Gaurav Jain (Founder Collective), Garry Tan (Initialized Capital), Anamitra Banerji (Afore Capital), Wei Guo (UpHonest Capital), Salil Deshpande (Uncorrelated Ventures), Yun-Fang Juan (Brighter Capital), Gustaf Alströmer (Y Combinator), Ding Zhou
Ceemo
Pre SeedJun 2024$1M
$1M
Co-investors: Kevin Dick (Right Side Capital Management)
Limbic
Series AMar 2024$14M
$14M
Co-investors: Vinod Khosla (Khosla Ventures), Andrew Gault (7percent Ventures)
Leap AI
SeedJan 2024$1M
$1M
SpecCheck
SeedOct 2023$4M
$4M
Co-investors: Garry Tan (Initialized Capital), Jennifer Wolf
Paxton
SeedSep 2023$6M
$28M
Co-investors: George Damouny (Plug & Play Ventures), Diane Fraiman (Voyager Capital), Andrew Ng (AI Fund), Linus Liang (Signia Venture Partners), Jason Franklin (XStarPartners), John Vrionis (Unusual Ventures)

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
Research Assistant University Of TexasPresent
Keynote Speaker Freelance Present
Keynote Speaker The Grameen Creative LabPresent
Principal Program Manager, Powerset/Bing Microsoft CorporationPresent
Research Assistant University of Texas at AustinPresent
Co-Founder, President & Chairman Top-PatentsPresent
Keynote Speaker FreelancePresent
Keynote Speaker NewCoPresent
Co-Founder, President & Chairman NewCoPresent
Sr. Research Scientist NewCoPresent
Research Scientist NewCoPresent
Keynote Speaker Self-employedPresent
Member Board Of Directors Kenzen ConsultingPresent
Member Board of Directors PermissionPresent
Co-Founder, President & Chairman Self-employedPresent
Founder & Product Architect PowersetPresent
Sr. Research Scientist Self-employedPresent
Research Scientist Self-employedPresent
Research Assistant The University of Texas at AustinPresent
Keynote Speaker Center for Rural Health LeadershipPresent
Co-Founder, President & Chairman Center for Rural Health LeadershipPresent
Sr. Research Scientist Center for Rural Health LeadershipPresent
Research Scientist Center for Rural Health LeadershipPresent
Co-Founder, President & Chairman The Grameen Creative LabPresent
Sr. Research Scientist The Grameen Creative LabPresent
Research Scientist The Grameen Creative LabPresent
Keynote Speaker FX Palo Alto LaboratoryPresent
Co-Founder, President & Chairman FX Palo Alto LaboratoryPresent
Sr. Research Scientist FX Palo Alto LaboratoryPresent
Research Assistant UNIVERSITY OF TEXASPresent
Keynote Speaker Self-EmployedPresent
Co-Founder, President & Chairman Self-EmployedPresent
Founder & Product Architect PowerSetPresent
Sr. Research Scientist Self-EmployedPresent
Research Scientist Self-EmployedPresent
Keynote Speaker Stealth Company (Jean-Michel Autelli)Present
Co-Founder, President & Chairman Stealth Company (Jean-Michel Autelli)Present
Sr. Research Scientist Stealth Company (Jean-Michel Autelli)Present
Research Scientist Stealth Company (Jean-Michel Autelli)Present
Co-Founder, President & Chairman The CounselPresent
Keynote Speaker The CounselPresent
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

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