Alessio Fanelli
Also known as FanaHOVA
Partner at Decibel and co-host of the Latent Space podcast.
- Alessio Fanelli is an engineer and investor, and a partner at the venture firm Decibel.
- Kernel Labs, which he is building, makes tools for coding agents.
- Earlier he founded Smart Torvy, an open-source home-automation startup.
- Before Decibel he was a principal at 645 Ventures.
Why it matters. For listeners of Latent Space and founders of developer-tool and AI infrastructure companies; he brings an investor's view to the podcast's technical interviews.
- Current roles
- Partner at Decibel; building Kernel Labs; co-host of Latent Space2
- At Decibel
- Leads seed and Series A rounds in AI, infrastructure software, security and dev tools; also CTO1
- Kernel Labs tools
- AWT (coding-agent worktree manager), Glimpse (CI screenshots), Kernel Gym (MCP server testing)2
- Latent Space podcast
- Co-founded with swyx, 20232
- Earlier work
- Founded Smart Torvy; engineering at Welcome Tech; principal at 645 Ventures2
- Open source
- smol-podcaster, a tool for transcripts, chapters and show notes2
Writing and talks
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2 years ago
One Year of Latent Space (opens alessiofanelli.com)
His look back at the podcast's first year: 55 episodes and about 3,000 people in its Discord.
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last year
Rise of the AI Architect (AI Engineer World's Fair 2025)2
On-stage interview with Sierra co-founder Clay Bavor on deploying agents in enterprise customer experience.
Links
Sources
- About - Alessio Fanelli (opens alessiofanelli.com) read 30 Sep 2026
- Alessio Fanelli - AI Engineer speaker page (opens ai.engineer) read 30 Sep 2026
- One Year of Latent Space — Alessio Fanelli (opens alessiofanelli.com) read 30 Sep 2026
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