Investment
Investment / Venture Analyst with AI + operator edge.
Thesis formation, market maps, diligence, founder or asset evaluation, and translating research into investment questions.
Milan, Italy · Irish/EU citizen · English native · Basic Italian, learning
Gavin Moore
Founder-operator and technology-native investor focused on opportunities where AI, capital, and physical markets collide.
I’m already based in Milan and looking to build my next full-time chapter here with an investment, venture-building, founder’s office, or special-projects team where deep technology understanding, commercial judgement, and real-world execution matter. My background spans profitable physical businesses, emergency healthcare supply chains, real-asset execution, public-market research, digital assets, commodities, and hands-on AI agent workflows.
Executive summary
Milan-based Irish/EU founder-operator for investment, venture-building, founder’s office, and special-projects teams.
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Built Typo Coffee from zero. Three profitable drive-thru locations, roastery, wholesale division, 25+ staff, approaching €2m annual revenue run-rate, and profitable operations.
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Delivered emergency healthcare supply. Co-founded Sanity Cares during COVID: €2.5m revenue and 1.625m CE-marked face shields delivered to Ireland’s HSE.
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Executed physical assets and market research. Redeveloped a six-storey Dublin asset into four apartments and publish field notes on AI, commodities, energy, and market structure.
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AI-native operator. This site and the surrounding research workflow are built and continuously improved with an AI agent operating system.
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What I’m looking for
A full-time Milan-based role where the work is to form a view, pressure-test it, and move it into commercial reality — across investment analysis, venture creation, founder’s office, special projects, strategy, or emerging technology and physical-market opportunities.
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Best-fit seats
Venture creation
Venture Builder / New Opportunities.
Turning ambiguous ideas into experiments, partnerships, operating plans, pilots, or first commercial proof.
Inside fast teams
Founder’s Office / Special Projects.
Cross-functional projects where commercial judgement, coordination, AI leverage, and tolerance for ambiguity matter.
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Proof index, in the shortest useful form.
Bootstrapped venture
~€2m
Typo Coffee
Built from zero into three profitable drive-thru locations, a roastery, 20+ wholesale customers, 25+ staff, and independently managed day-to-day operations.
Healthcare supply chain
1.625m
Sanity Cares
CE-marked face shields delivered to Ireland’s HSE during COVID; €2.5m revenue under emergency constraints.
Real assets
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Residential redevelopment
Six-storey Dublin city centre asset redeveloped into four apartments through planning, contractors, budgeting, and delivery.
Research systems
Emerging technology and market-structure research.
Built a private research workflow across digital assets, AI infrastructure, public technology equities, commodities, and macro themes — combining thesis writing, Python-based data/trading experiments, and public field notes where appropriate.
AI-native workflow
Personal AI operating system.
Agent-assisted planning, coding, research memory, field-note publication, site iteration, verification, and reusable skill capture.
Private portfolio data and sensitive project details are intentionally kept off the public site; public pages focus on verifiable outcomes, methods, and judgment.
Pattern across the work
The sectors vary — coffee, healthcare supply chains, property, AI, digital assets, commodities — but the pattern is consistent: I find leverage in messy, under-defined situations, build a view, coordinate people and resources, and push toward commercially useful outcomes.
Human texture, machine leverage.Thesis
Find the opportunity.
Turn noise into a useful view of where demand, constraints, incentives, and timing meet.
Diligence
Pressure-test the view.
Identify operational, market, regulatory, and execution risks before committing resources.
Build
Move into execution.
Convert the thesis into experiments, partnerships, workflows, products, or delivered projects.
Compound
Turn work into systems.
Create reusable notes, processes, operating loops, and proof artifacts that improve the next cycle.
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Where I’m useful
Investment
- Market maps and investment memos
- Macro, commodities and physical-market research
- AI, crypto and emerging-technology analysis
- Operational diligence
Venture
- Venture thesis development
- Zero-to-one opportunity validation
- Commercial modelling
- Partnership and growth projects
Execution
- Founder’s office and special projects
- Supply-chain and real-world execution
- Systems and process design
- Ambiguous problem structuring
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Proof index
ProofTypeLinkShowsCore evidence
Typo CoffeeBootstrapped ventureCaseZero-to-one operations3 profitable sites; approaching €2m run-rate
AI operating systemAI-native workflowCaseContinuous engineeringAgent-built site, notes, memory and review loops
Emerging tech researchResearch / market sensingNotesThesis processPython experiments, market-structure analysis, AI/crypto/commodities themes
Mount StreetReal assetsProof rowComplex delivery6-storey Dublin asset into 4 apartments
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Current research and build pipeline
Field notes live now.
Open questions.
- AI data centres and power constraints
- Agent workflows inside operating companies
- Stablecoins, market structure, and Europe after MiCA
- Physical-market validation and commodity bottlenecks
Operating leverage.
- Personal AI operating system
- Private research memory bank
- Goalie v0 for goals and review loops
- This proof site as a living artifact
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If you’re reading this from…
Venture Capital
Operator judgment plus AI-native research cadence.
Start with the field notes for market judgment, then inspect Typo, Sanity Cares, and the AI operating system for evidence that I can move from thesis to execution.
Copper / uranium notesPhysical bottleneck analysis.
Typo CoffeeZero-to-one operating proof.
AI operating systemAgent workflow and compounding process.
Family Office
Capital allocation taste grounded in physical execution.
Start with Typo and Mount Street for operating discipline, then read the commodity notes to see how I evaluate macro constraints without losing contact with the real world.
Typo CoffeeProfitable operating asset creation.
Mount StreetReal-asset delivery and coordination.
Commodity notesLong-cycle supply constraint analysis.
Founder
Useful in ambiguous, high-velocity operating problems.
Start with Sanity Cares, Typo, and the pattern section: compressed learning, coordination, commercial judgment, and reusable systems under imperfect information.
Sanity CaresEmergency supply-chain execution.
Typo CoffeeCustomer, team, site, supplier systems.
Pattern sectionThesis → diligence → build → compound.
Let’s speak.
Contact me if you are hiring, building, or investing around AI, commodities, physical markets, venture creation, or founder-led special projects in Milan/Europe.
Milan, Italy · Irish/EU citizen · English native · Basic Italian, learning