Investing Profile

Lorenzo Thione(1847)

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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65 Investors

Connected to James Currier (NFX), Charles Hudson (Precursor Ventures), David Samuel (Freestyle Capital), and 62 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
40

Lorenzo Thione is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

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Lorenzo Thione's Investments On Record (36)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Turing
Series EMar 2025$110M
Series BSep 2020$32M
$280M
Co-investors: Kabir Narang (B Capital Group), Karen Page (B Capital Group), Gary Little (Canvas Ventures), Ellen Ma (UpHonest Capital), Anton Simunovic (Alumni Ventures ), Faizan Khan (Unchained Capital, Inc.), Ariel Jaduszliwer (BrainStorm Ventures), Bryan Ciambella (Peak State Ventures), Xavier Ponce de León (Ideas & Capital), Kelly Graziadei (F7 Ventures), Luigi Bajetti (LombardStreet Ventures), Nader Motamedy (Safar Partners), Huican Zhu (AMINO Capital), Qiang "Larry" Li (AMINO Capital), Frank Taylor (Virginia Venture Partners), Daniel Ibri (Mindset Ventures), James Conigliaro (Array Ventures), Seva Zakharov (Peak State Ventures), Binh Tran (Ascend Vietnam Ventures), Eddie Thai (Ascend Vietnam Ventures), Keisuke Honda (Dreamers VC), Jeff Morris, Jr. (Chapter One Ventures), Greg Back (FreeSky Capital), Andre De Baubigny (Modern Venture Partners), Marat Kichikov, Siqi Chen, Adam D'Angelo, Kintan Brahmbhatt, Eric Bunting, Jed Ng, Clark Landry, Sahin Boydas
Openmart
SeedAug 2024$3M
$3.5M
Co-investors: Anamitra Banerji (Afore Capital), Gaurav Jain (Afore Capital), Gustaf Alströmer (Y Combinator), Rachel Lam (Imagination Capital)
Limbic
Series AMar 2024$14M
$14M
Co-investors: Andrew Gault (7percent Ventures)
Leap AI
SeedJan 2024$1M
$1M
Co-investors: Furqan Rydhan, Hubert Thieblot
SpecCheck
SeedOct 2023$4M
$4M
Co-investors: Jennifer Wolf
Paxton
SeedSep 2023$6M
$28M
Co-investors: George Damouny (Plug & Play Ventures), Linus Liang (Signia Venture Partners), Jason Franklin (XStarPartners), Diane Fraiman (Voyager Capital), Andrew Ng (AI Fund), Lars Albright (Unusual Ventures)
BetterBrand
Series AJun 2023$6M
$9M
Co-investors: Kyle Vogt
Zamp
SeedMay 2023$4M
$29M
Co-investors: Paul Grossinger (Gaingels), Sandeep Nailwal (Polygon), 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), Yahya Mokhtarzada, Jonathan Wasserstrum, Matt Mickiewicz

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