Investing Profile

Lorenzo Thione(1772)

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

Connected to James Currier (NFX), Charles Hudson (Precursor Ventures), David Samuel (Freestyle Capital), and 59 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
39

Lorenzo Thione is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

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Lorenzo Thione's Investments On Record (36)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Openmart
SeedAug 2024$3M
$3.5M
Co-investors: Anamitra Banerji (Afore Capital), Gaurav Jain (Afore Capital), Wei Guo (UpHonest Capital), Gustaf Alströmer (Y Combinator), Rachel Lam (Imagination Capital), 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: Hubert Thieblot, Furqan Rydhan
Paxton
SeedSep 2023$6M
$6M
Co-investors: George Damouny (Plug & Play Ventures), Diane Fraiman (Voyager Capital), Andrew Ng (AI Fund), Linus Liang (Signia Venture Partners), Jason Franklin (XStarPartners), Lars Albright (Unusual Ventures)
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), Kirthiga Reddy (F7 Ventures), 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), Jonathan Wasserstrum, Matt Mickiewicz, Brad Garlinghouse, Gokul Rajaram, Yahya Mokhtarzada, Paul Holland
SpecCheck
SeedApr 2023$4M
$4M
Co-investors: Garry Tan (Y Combinator), Jennifer Wolf
Bridge (a Foro company)
Series UnknownMar 2023$4M
$4M
Co-investors: Mark A. Johnson (TTV Capital)

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