Gabriel Bianconi
I was the CEO and co-founder of TensorZero.
We built an open-source LLMOps platform that powered organizations ranging from frontier AI startups to the Fortune 10, with the ultimate goal of automating AI engineering itself.
We raised $7.3M from FirstMark, Bessemer, Bedrock, and other investors.
Previously, I was the chief product officer of Ondo Finance.
Ondo builds institutional-grade on-chain financial products and decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols that enhance them. It is the market leader in the tokenization of real world assets (RWAs), with billions in AUM.
I helped launch the first tokenized security to achieve material adoption, OUSG, and designed the first on-chain lending protocol supporting both permissioned and permissionless assets, Flux.
Early on, we raised $34M from Founders Fund, Pantera, and other investors.
Essay: Aggregation Theory & Value Capture in DeFi →
I also spent a few years consulting on machine learning, data science, and smart contract engineering.
I worked on diverse machine learning applications, starting with early generative AI and vector search systems back in 2019, ranging from dating app matchmaking to veterinary radiology and geospatial imaging. Notably, I built a billion-scale recommendation system from scratch for one of the top 20 most-visited websites in the world.
I provided technical advisory, due diligence, and proof-of-concept development services to a wide range of investment firms. In the insurance sector, my work has impacted hundreds of millions in underwritten capital.
More recently, I also worked on mechanism design and smart contract engineering for an on-chain betting protocol alongside world-class poker players.
Before that, I was a B.S. & M.S. student in computer science at Stanford, where I conducted research in deep learning and computer vision.
My honors thesis investigated quantum machine learning algorithms using NASA’s D-Wave quantum computer.
Later, I researched computer vision applications in healthcare, with a focus on privacy-preserving ambient intelligence for ICUs using LIDAR.
I started teaching myself to code at age thirteen and, two years later, published a game that reached millions of players.
I’m originally from Brazil and live in NYC.
My email is gabriel@gabrielbianconi.com.