Investing Profile

Lorenzo Thione(1628)

VCInvestorFormer CEOFounder
Managing Director at Gaingels, Investor in 500+ companies
gaingels.com/teamChicago, Illinois
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58 Investors

Connected to James Currier (NFX), Charles Hudson (Precursor Ventures), David Samuel (Freestyle Capital), and 55 other investors on Signal.

Networks Lorenzo is a member of
Microsoft Network
149 CONNECTIONS
The University of Texas at Austin Network
58 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position
Gaingels Managing Director
Investment Range
$100K - $5.0M
Sweet Spot
$500K
Investments On Record
38

Lorenzo Thione is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

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Lorenzo Thione's Investments On Record (35)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Limbic
Series AMar 2024$14M
$14M
Co-investors: Vinod Khosla (Khosla Ventures), Andrew Gault (7percent Ventures)
Leap AI
SeedJan 2024$1M
$1M
Co-investors: Hubert Thieblot, Furqan Rydhan
Paxton AI
SeedSep 2023$6M
$6M
Co-investors: George Damouny (Plug & Play Ventures), Andrew Ng (AI Fund), Lars Albright (Unusual Ventures), Maxim Nazarov (FinSight Ventures), Diane Fraiman (Voyager Capital), Linus Liang (Signia Venture Partners), Jason Franklin (XStarPartners)
BetterBrand
Series AJun 2023$6M
$9M
Co-investors: Alexis Ohanian (Seven Seven Six), Chris Hollod, Kyle Vogt
Zamp
SeedMay 2023$4M
$29M
Co-investors: Paul Grossinger (Gaingels), Sandeep Nailwal (Polygon), Wei Guo (UpHonest Capital), Jon Oringer (Pareto Holdings), Sumeet Gajri (Original Capital), Kirthiga Reddy (F7 Ventures), Doug Chertok (Vast Ventures), Masha Bucher (Day One Ventures), Mir Faiyaz (Soma Capital), Aneel Ranadive (Soma Capital), John Fogelsong (Glynn Capital), Aniq Rahman (Vast Ventures), Drake Austin Rehfeld (Day One Ventures), Matt Mickiewicz, Yahya Mokhtarzada, Paul Holland, Gokul Rajaram, Jonathan Wasserstrum, Brad Garlinghouse
SpecCheck
SeedApr 2023$4M
$4M
Co-investors: Jennifer Wolf (Initialized Capital), Garry Tan (Y Combinator)
Bridge (a Foro company)
Series UnknownMar 2023$4M
$4M
Co-investors: Mark A. Johnson (TTV Capital)
Chai
SeedMar 2023
$3.8M
Co-investors: Jay Zaveri (Social Capital), Bill Elmore (Foundation Capital), Cornel Chiriac (2050 Capital), Daniel Curran (Curran Rosschou Venture Capital), Kevin Mahaffey (SNR), Jude Gomila (Jude Gomila Rolling Fund), Naval Ravikant (The Hit Forge), Charlie Songhurst, Siqi Chen, Ken Howery, Jeff Hammerbacher

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