Gabriele Tinelli

Investor @ Foundamental | Investing in stuff that is hard to build. Rants at gabtin.github.io.

📍 Germany🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 2 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2025
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Angel Investor
Jul 2025
Autonomous Construction Equipment Manufacturer. Rent construction robots from us or retrofit your existing fleet with our Autonomous Vehicle Kit. At BotCrew, our mission is to revolutionize the renewable energy and construction industries by designing and building cutting-edge, fully autonomous construction robots. We are committed to advancing technology to create efficient, safe, and sustainable solutions that enhance productivity and minimize environmental impact. Through innovation and dedication, we strive to empower our clients with the most advanced automation technology, driving progress towards a brighter, more sustainable future for all.
Investor
Feb 2024
Early investors in Infra.Market, Enter, Permitflow, Tazapay, Speckle, Snaptrude, Wiz Freight. Foundamental partners with the most ambitious builders from day zero. Our minds are locked on our search for those who build the next 100 legendary technology companies in the real world. We search for vertical singularities often overlooked by others, spending 365 days a year dedicated to 3D design, construction, blue-collar workforce, robotics, supply chains, logistics, and opportunistically, industrial manufacturing and aerospace. Our expertise comes from our teams diverse background across technology, venture, and industrial operations, including prior successes with Spotify, Uber, Lyft, Zetwerk and more. Across the Foundamental portfolio, we had the privilege to build alongside daring category creators such as Infra.Market, Enter, Speckle, Snaptrude, Tazapay and SafeAI. We aspire to be the earliest partner, leading pre-seed, seed and Series-A rounds globally, and by principle reserving more than 50% of each fund for follow-ons. We put in the work outside of board meetings, leveraging our deep understanding and unique convictions to help founders navigate adversity in the critical early years. We are building the preeminent vertical technology investment firm for the real world, one legendary company at a time.
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2025
Angel Investor
Jul 2025
Autonomous Construction Equipment Manufacturer. Rent construction robots from us or retrofit your existing fleet with our Autonomous Vehicle Kit. At BotCrew, our mission is to revolutionize the renewable energy and construction industries by designing and building cutting-edge, fully autonomous construction robots. We are committed to advancing technology to create efficient, safe, and sustainable solutions that enhance productivity and minimize environmental impact. Through innovation and dedication, we strive to empower our clients with the most advanced automation technology, driving progress towards a brighter, more sustainable future for all.
2024
Investor
Feb 2024
Early investors in Infra.Market, Enter, Permitflow, Tazapay, Speckle, Snaptrude, Wiz Freight. Foundamental partners with the most ambitious builders from day zero. Our minds are locked on our search for those who build the next 100 legendary technology companies in the real world. We search for vertical singularities often overlooked by others, spending 365 days a year dedicated to 3D design, construction, blue-collar workforce, robotics, supply chains, logistics, and opportunistically, industrial manufacturing and aerospace. Our expertise comes from our teams diverse background across technology, venture, and industrial operations, including prior successes with Spotify, Uber, Lyft, Zetwerk and more. Across the Foundamental portfolio, we had the privilege to build alongside daring category creators such as Infra.Market, Enter, Speckle, Snaptrude, Tazapay and SafeAI. We aspire to be the earliest partner, leading pre-seed, seed and Series-A rounds globally, and by principle reserving more than 50% of each fund for follow-ons. We put in the work outside of board meetings, leveraging our deep understanding and unique convictions to help founders navigate adversity in the critical early years. We are building the preeminent vertical technology investment firm for the real world, one legendary company at a time.
2023
Visiting Analyst
Sep 2023
Founded in 1997, Pan-European VC Earlybird backs exceptional early-stage companies, supporting them through their growth and development phases and providing financial resources, strategic support, plus access to an international network and capital markets. Through two separate strategies, Earlybird focuses on tech-enabled businesses across software applications, infrastructure, and deep tech, while Earlybird Health focuses on life science breakthroughs accelerated by data-driven analytics and operations. Earlybird also has a pro-bono impact initiative, Vision Lab. With EUR 2.5 billion under management across fund streams and a history of 9 IPOs and 37 trade sales, Earlybird is among Europe’s most established and active venture capital firms. More information: www.earlybird.com X: https://x.com/EarlybirdVC LinkedIn:www.linkedin.com/company/earlybird-venture-capital Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/earlybirdvc/
2022
Visiting Investment Associate
Sep 2022
Antler is one of the most active early-stage investors globally. The firm leads in ‘Day Zero’ investing, an approach to venture capital focused on partnering with founders pre-launch. Antler systematically removes capital and network constraints for early-stage technology entrepreneurs by providing co-founder matching, deep business model validation, initial capital, expansion support, and follow-on funding. The firm is present in 27 cities across most leading technology ecosystems globally and has made over 1,300 investments into early-stage startups. Antler has been repeatedly recognized by Pitchbook as the world’s most active angel and seed-stage investor.
Intern | ING Ventures
Feb 2022
ING is a pioneer in digital banking and on the forefront as one of the most innovative banks in the world. As ING, we have a clear purpose that represents our conviction of people’s potential. We don’t judge, coach, or tell people how to live their lives. However big or small, modest or grand, we empower people and businesses to realise their vision for a better future. We made the promise to make banking frictionless, removing barriers to progress, and make people confident in their financial decisions. As a global bank we have a huge opportunity – and responsibility – to make an impact for the better. We can play a role by financing change, sharing knowledge, and innovating. Being sustainable is in all the choices we make—as a lender, as a partner and through the services we offer our customers
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