# Dennis Pilarinos

> Dennis Pilarinos is a seed investor backing Advertising and Brand Marketing. See 3 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Vancouver, Canada
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dennispi
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/dennispilarinos
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dennispi

Dennis Pilarinos is a seed investor in Vancouver focused on Advertising and Brand Marketing. Dennis has spent his career building products that remove friction for software engineers. He started on the ground floor of Microsoft Azure, helping build the early cloud platform, then became the first AWS employee in Amazon's Vancouver office, where he built the team and worked on the Kindle Fire stack and developer tooling. He went on tofound Buddybuild, the CI/CD platform used by tens of thousands of mobile developers worldwide, which was acquired by Apple in 2018 and became the foundation for Xcode Cloud. Today Dennis is Founder and CEO of Unblocked, a context engine that gives developers and AI coding agents the organizational knowledge they need to write better code, trusted by engineering teams at Workday, Plaid, and Webflow. He measures success by how much time and confusion he removes from engineering workflows.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Advertising | 1 | 33% |
| Brand Marketing | 1 | 33% |
| Machine Learning | 1 | 33% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 1 | 33% |

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 67% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 67% |
| Canada | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Fillout | Create powerful forms, surveys and quizzes your audience will answer. Store responses directly where you need them. | $1.6M | Seed | Oct 10, 2024 | https://www.fillout.com/ |
| Metaspectral | Compression.ai is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of machine learning and web services. The company has developed encoding and decoding capability for images using machine learning, which achieves on-average about 95% compression rates of a raw image without significantly losing its quality. |  | Pre-Seed | Sep 01, 2018 | https://metaspectral.com |
| Skyscraper | Skyscraper is an all-in-one ad management platform for bloggers. A magical way of running ads on your site that both simple and effective. | $500K | Seed | Dec 03, 2012 | http://www.skyscraper.io |

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## Co-investors
- [BoxGroup](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boxgroup) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [N49P](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/n49p) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Victory Square](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/victory-square-labs-2) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Village Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/village-global-2) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Dennis Pilarinos invest in?

Dennis Pilarinos invests primarily in Advertising, Brand Marketing and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Dennis Pilarinos last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Dennis Pilarinos closed in Oct 2024. Shizune tracks 3 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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