Summary
Alessio Fanelli is a founder and investor with 12 years of engineering and venture experience focused on the Engineering Value Chain, AI, developer platforms, and infrastructure software. Based in San Francisco, he co-hosts the popular Latent Space AI engineering podcast and invests at Seed–Series A through Decibel Partners and his own initiatives like Kernel Labs and EVCRevolution. He has a hacker-founder background building open-source hardware and IoT (Smart Torvy) and has led engineering and product efforts at venture-backed teams including 645 Ventures where he bridged product development and investing. Alessio combines hands-on technical chops (Physics & Computer Science training) with a knack for scaling developer-centric startups and internal platforms. Notably, he positions startups as composable building blocks—“the TSMC of startups”—and mixes public-facing content, podcasting, and open-source work to surface early signals for investments.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Liceo Scientifico Newton
Literature, Literature at John Cabot University
Physics & Computer Science, Physics & Computer Science at University of Rome Tor Vergata
Italian, English