E189 Alessio Fanelli, Vice President at 645 Ventures

Today's guest is Alessio Fanelli, Vice President at 645 Ventures in New York. Founded in 2013, 645 Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with exceptional founders who are building iconic companies. They invest at the Seed and Series A stages and leverage their Voyager software platform to enable their Success team and Connected Network to help founders scale to the growth stage.

645 Ventures invest in four main areas: SaaS for the Second Wave, Citizen Professionals, The Engineering Value Chain Revolution and Personalized Consumer Applications. 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.They have over 35 active companies in their portfolio in the areas of enterprise SaaS, infrastructure software and consumer technology.

In the episode, Alessio will tell you about:

Deciding what data & tech companies to back,

What makes companies successful in Data Science,

Biggest challenges in hiring in Data Science and Machine Learning,

What to consider when joining a Data Science startup & 

What excites him for the future in the data and tech scene