Alessandro Rinaldi
Seed And Studio Investments at Launch Factory
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlessandro Rinaldi is an investor and operator with 11 years of experience building, scaling and advising early-stage ventures from product and digital media to venture studios. As Head of Seed and Studio Investments at Launch Factory and Partner in Residence at Techstars, he blends hands-on startup building with structured mentoring roles at Stanford, Berkeley and Oxford that shape founder outcomes. His background spans product leadership roles at major media groups and fast-growing digital startups, where he launched multimillion-dollar products and grew audiences tenfold. Based in San Diego, he combines a global perspective—having opened a UK office and forged academic partnerships in Europe—with an engineer’s curiosity reflected in his GitHub work under @porech. He’s known for turning editorial and product complexity into repeatable revenue models and for mentoring founders to operationalize early traction.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Business, Master's degree Business at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessEconomia Aziendale - Sistemi informativi Business Administration, Economia Aziendale - Sistemi informativi Business Administration at LIUC - Università CattaneoManagement of Information Systems Business Administration, Management of Information Systems Business Administration at Northeastern UniversityMaster International Management, Master International Management at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
English, Italian
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Github Skills (200)
json-schema10
failover10
rsync10
xiaomi10
video-player10
logrus10
raspberry-pi-zero10
pandas-dataframe10
openstack-swift10
wireguard10
backup10
icloud10
ftp10
pythonic10
audio10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
porech/caddy-maxmind-geolocation
Oct 2020 - Aug 2021
Caddy v2 module to filter requests based on source IP geolocation
Contributions:7 releases, 11 commits, 9 PRs in 10 months
geoipip-geolocationmaxmindgeolocationcaddy
porech/goofys
Sep 2022 - Sep 2024
a high-performance, POSIX-ish Amazon S3 file system written in Go
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 1 push in 2 years
unicornsawsfile-systemishposix
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