Alessio Fanelli

Partner & CTO

2022 - Current

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Head of Graphics

2013 - 2014

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