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Alessio Fanelli

Latent Space Co-Host, Partner & CTO at Decibel

San Francisco, California

Skills

Ruby on Rails
Ember.js
Python
CSS
JavaScript
Video
HTML
User experience
Grafica
WordPress
Web Design
React
Continuous Integration
Ruby

Education

Work Experience

  • Partner & CTO

    2022

    Decibel is an independent venture firm, based in Silicon Valley. We back technical founders and help them find product-market fit and accelerate their business. We invest in Seed, Series A, and Series B stage software companies, with a special focus on Developer Platforms, Open Source, Cybersecurity, and ML and AI Infrastructure and Applications. We’ve built a large and growing network of early adopters and buyers of new technology products and connect them to our portfolio companies. We also help them define and run their marketing and sales playbooks by connecting them with best practices and our rich network of advisors who include successful founders and executives from our community.

2021 - 2024

  • Board Member

    2021 - 2024

    NextGen Partners' mission is to facilitate professional development, knowledge sharing and network strengthening of emerging venture capital investors as they build their careers. Founded in 2001, NextGen Partners has a membership base of over 3500 pre-partner professionals representing over 200 firms.

2018 - 2022

  • Principal

    2021 - 2022

    Leading Seed and Series A rounds; I focus on infrastructure software, dev tools, and security. Companies we partnered with include Panther Labs, Bigeye, Cube.dev, DeepSource, Launchable, Oort, and more. I also lead product development for 645 Voyager, our internal software platform. Can't get away from product too much :) 645 Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with exceptional founders who are building iconic companies. We invest at the Seed and Series A stages and leverage our Voyager software platform to enable our Success team and Connected Network to help founders scale to the growth stage. We invest in four main areas: The Engineering Value Chain Revolution, SaaS for the Second Wave, Citizen Professionals, and Personalized Consumer Applications. You can read more here: https://645ventures.com/focus 645 Ventures has $200m+ in AUM and is growing fast with backing from leading institutional investors, including university endowments, funds of funds, and pension funds. We have over 35 active companies in our portfolio in the areas of enterprise SaaS, infrastructure software, and consumer technology. Several of our portfolio companies have been acquired by Google, Facebook, Expedia, and private equity firms.

  • Vice President

    2020 - 2021

  • Director Of Engineering

    2019 - 2020

  • Engineer

    2018 - 2019

  • Engineering Fellow

    2018 - 2018

2017 - 2018

  • Consulting Software Engineer

    2017 - 2018

    Worked with multiple high profile clients to develop an array of products ranging from classic eCommerce solutions to C2C marketplaces.

  • Lead Engineer

    2016 - 2017

    - Scaled from 300,000 to 1 million users. - Worked on messaging system architecture to handle up to 50k requests/hour at peak. - Led development on multiple products ranging from business intelligence tools to our Messenger bots. - Created and launched web presence for a campaign with Dr. Pepper, providing scholarships to latinx college students.

2013 - 2017

  • Community Moderator

    2013 - 2017

    Helped >100M people/month understand their favorite music. Main responsibilities: - Writing, reviewing and editing of thousands of annotations across multiple artists. - Onboarding and training of new editors - Creating content for our SportsGenius platform http://genius.com/fanahova

2014 - 2016

  • Founder

    2014 - 2016

    Smart Torvy is a open source home automation ecosystem. We designed the PCB boards, the 3D casing for them and the software that connected everything together. Showcased at Maker Faire Rome in 2014 and 2016.

Divet Tech

2013 - 2016

  • Founder

    2013 - 2016

    We work on various projects from Internet of Things solutions like Smart Torvy (http://smarttorvy.me/) to smart medical equipment. We're currently working with Gemelli Hospital in Rome to build a set of tools to make vital signs tracking easier.

Freelancer

2014 - 2016

  • Freelancer

    2014 - 2016

    Freelance development of small web apps/startups MVPs. Technologies used include Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, Redis, Ember.js, Python, Arduino, static frontend development with HTML/CSS/Js. APIs and services used include Twitter, Stripe, PayPal, NBA.com, KeenIO, ESPN, TrueID.

Reign eSports (Acquired by VwS Gaming)

2013 - 2014

  • Head of Graphics

    2013 - 2014

    Designed our digital content, pitch decks for investors and sponsors, websites, and social media presence.

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