Investing Profile

Lorenzo Thione(1926)

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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69 Investors

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

Networks Lorenzo is a member of
Microsoft Network
153 CONNECTIONS
The University of Texas at Austin Network
62 CONNECTIONS

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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 (LGF), Justin Ziebell (Indeed.com), Terrence Rohan (Otherwise Fund), Mark McLaughlin (Alkeon Capital), Elad Gil, Konstantin von Unger
Turing
Series EMar 2025$110M
Series BSep 2020$32M
$290M
Co-investors: Kabir Narang (B Capital Group), Sunil Rajaraman (Sequoia Capital), Gary Little (Canvas Ventures), Karen Page (B Capital Group), Saeed Amidi (Plug & Play Ventures), Wei Guo (UpHonest Capital), Sundeep Ahuja (Climate Capital), Igor Ryabenkiy (Altair Capital Management), Anton Simunovic (Alumni Ventures ), Ellen Ma (UpHonest Capital), Ashu Garg (Foundation Capital), Auren Hoffman (Flex Capital), Nader Motamedy (Safar Partners), Luigi Bajetti (LombardStreet Ventures), Binh Tran (Ascend Vietnam Ventures), Eddie Thai (Ascend Vietnam Ventures), Faizan Khan (Unchained Capital, Inc.), Chris Moreno (Infinite Niches), 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), Frank Taylor (Virginia Venture Partners), Keisuke Honda (Dreamers VC), Huican Zhu (AMINO Capital), Qiang "Larry" Li (AMINO Capital), Kintan Brahmbhatt, Shariq Rizvi, Eric Bunting, Adam D'Angelo, Siqi Chen, Marat Kichikov, Jed Ng, Gokul Rajaram, Scott Banister, Sue Xu, Clark Landry, Sahin Boydas, Christopher Nguyen
Openmart
SeedAug 2024$3M
$3.5M
Co-investors: Wei Guo (UpHonest Capital), Anamitra Banerji (Afore Capital), Gaurav Jain (Afore Capital), Jared Heyman (Rebel Fund), Salil Deshpande (Uncorrelated Ventures), Yun-Fang Juan (Brighter Capital), Garry Tan (Y Combinator), Rachel Lam (Imagination 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
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), John Vrionis (Unusual Ventures), Linus Liang (Signia Venture Partners), Jason Franklin (XStarPartners), Diane Fraiman (Voyager Capital), Andrew Ng (AI Fund), Lars Albright (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
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