Investing Profile

Lorenzo Thione(1985)

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: Terrence Rohan (Index Ventures), Konstantin von Unger (Pava Partners), Lachy Groom (Physical Intelligence), Elad Gil (Think Colorado), Mark McLaughlin (Alkeon Capital), Justin Ziebell (Indeed.com)
Turing
Series EMar 2025$110M
Series BSep 2020$32M
$290M
Co-investors: Sunil Rajaraman (Sequoia Capital), Kabir Narang (B Capital Group), Gary Little (Canvas Ventures), Ellen Ma (UpHonest Capital), Igor Ryabenkiy (Altair Capital Management), Saeed Amidi (Plug & Play Ventures), Wei Guo (UpHonest Capital), Matt Murphy (Menlo Ventures), Anton Simunovic (Alumni Ventures ), Sundeep Ahuja (Climate Capital), Ashu Garg (Foundation Capital), Ariel Jaduszliwer (BrainStorm Ventures), Bryan Ciambella (Proof Group), Siqi Chen (Laserlike Inc), Seva Zakharov (Peak State Ventures), Andre De Baubigny (Modern Venture Partners), Clark Landry (CESPPA), Chris Moreno (Engage Ventures), Dmitry Alimov (Frontier Ventures), Keisuke Honda (Dreamers VC), Luigi Bajetti (LombardStreet Ventures), Faizan Khan (Unchained Capital, Inc.), Eddie Thai (AVV), Binh Tran (Ascend Vietnam Ventures), Daniel Ibri (Mindset Ventures), Xavier Ponce de León (Ideas & Capital), Jed Ng (GroWrk), Karen Page (Binhai Venture Capital (Tianjin Binhai VC Investment Management Co., Ltd.)), Kelly Graziadei (F7 Ventures), Jeff Morris, Jr. (Chapter One Ventures), Greg Back (FreeSky Capital), Scott Banister (Long Journey Ventures), Gokul Rajaram (gokulrajaram.com), Auren Hoffman (SafeGraph), Cyan Banister (Long Journey Ventures), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor), James Conigliaro (Array Ventures), Nader Motamedy (Safar Partners), Frank Taylor (Virginia Venture Partners), Adam D'Angelo, Shariq Rizvi, Kintan Brahmbhatt, Marat Kichikov, Christopher Nguyen, Eric Bunting
Openmart
SeedAug 2024$3M
$3.5M
Co-investors: Gaurav Jain (Afore Capital), Wei Guo (UpHonest Capital), Garry Tan (Y Combinator), Gustaf Alströmer (Y Combinator), Anamitra Banerji (Loop AI - Delivery Intelligence Platform), Jared Heyman (Pioneer Fund), Rachel Lam (Imagination Capital), Salil Deshpande (Uncorrelated Ventures), Yun-Fang Juan (Brighter Capital), 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
Co-investors: Furqan Rydhan (thirdweb), Hubert Thieblot (Founders, Inc.)
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), Diane Fraiman (Voyager Capital), 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
Keynote Speaker The CounselPresent
Co-Founder, President & Chairman The CounselPresent
Research Scientist Stealth Company (Jean-Michel Autelli)Present
Sr. Research Scientist Stealth Company (Jean-Michel Autelli)Present
Co-Founder, President & Chairman Stealth Company (Jean-Michel Autelli)Present
Keynote Speaker Stealth Company (Jean-Michel Autelli)Present
Research Scientist Self-EmployedPresent
Sr. Research Scientist Self-EmployedPresent
Founder & Product Architect PowerSetPresent
Co-Founder, President & Chairman Self-EmployedPresent
Keynote Speaker Self-EmployedPresent
Research Assistant UNIVERSITY OF TEXASPresent
Sr. Research Scientist FX Palo Alto LaboratoryPresent
Co-Founder, President & Chairman FX Palo Alto LaboratoryPresent
Keynote Speaker FX Palo Alto LaboratoryPresent
Research Scientist The Grameen Creative LabPresent
Sr. Research Scientist The Grameen Creative LabPresent
Co-Founder, President & Chairman The Grameen Creative LabPresent
Research Scientist Center for Rural Health LeadershipPresent
Sr. Research Scientist Center for Rural Health LeadershipPresent
Co-Founder, President & Chairman Center for Rural Health LeadershipPresent
Keynote Speaker Center for Rural Health LeadershipPresent
Research Assistant The University of Texas at AustinPresent
Research Scientist Self-employedPresent
Sr. Research Scientist Self-employedPresent
Founder & Product Architect PowersetPresent
Co-Founder, President & Chairman Self-employedPresent
Member Board of Directors PermissionPresent
Member Board Of Directors Kenzen ConsultingPresent
Keynote Speaker Self-employedPresent
Research Scientist NewCoPresent
Sr. Research Scientist NewCoPresent
Co-Founder, President & Chairman NewCoPresent
Keynote Speaker NewCoPresent
Keynote Speaker FreelancePresent
Co-Founder, President & Chairman Top-PatentsPresent
Research Assistant University of Texas at AustinPresent
Principal Program Manager, Powerset/Bing Microsoft CorporationPresent
Keynote Speaker The Grameen Creative LabPresent
Keynote Speaker Freelance Present
Research Assistant University Of TexasPresent
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