# Gil Penchina

> Gil Penchina is a seed investor at Pryze (San Francisco) backing Software and Mobile. See 29 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Pryze](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pryze-inc)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 29
- Last investment: Oct 2022
- Lead investor: 3%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/gilpenchina
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/gilpenchina
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/penchina

Gil Penchina is a seed investor at Pryze in San Francisco focused on Software and Mobile. Gil Penchina is retired

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $700k–$6M |
| Series A | $4M–$11M |
| Series B | $4.3M–$14M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 10 | 34% |
| Mobile | 7 | 24% |
| Internet | 7 | 24% |
| Information Technology | 6 | 21% |
| SaaS | 4 | 14% |

80 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 15 | 52% |
| Series A | 5 | 17% |
| Series B | 3 | 10% |
| Angel | 1 | 3% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 3% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 25 | 86% |
| France | 1 | 3% |
| Finland | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Airstack | Airstack is the developer of an artificial intelligence-powered platform that allows for on-chain data across several projects and blockchains. The company organizes decentralized application transactions into virtual stacks of data, allowing developers to access and incorporate any web3 on-chain data and related off-chain data into their apps. | $3.8M | Pre-Seed | Oct 20, 2022 |  |
| Archipelo | Archipelo develops an intelligent code discovery engine for software developers. Archipelo is the San Francisco, California. | $8M | Seed | Jul 17, 2021 |  |
| Origin Protocol | Origin is a protocol for creating sharing economy marketplaces using the Ethereum blockchain and IPFS. It empowers developers and businesses to build decentralized marketplaces on the blockchain. Its protocol makes it easy to create and manage listings for the fractional usage of assets and services.Origin allows buyers and sellers to discovereach other, browse listings, make bookings, leave ratings and reviews, and much more.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $28.5M | Corporate Round | Apr 17, 2018 |  |
| Atrium LTS | Atrium builds products and services to help automate legal workflows, innovate new processes within law firms, and help firms identify and attract new clients. Its technology provides a better experience for legal clients than they previously thought possible, increasing communication and speed of service.The company collaborates withforward-thinking lawyers to help determine the direction and decisions for these products. | $10.5M | Series A | Jun 15, 2017 |  |
| Fairy | Fairy offers 30 minute daily “hotel like” cleanings and is a great service for busy professionals and families -- their mission is to deliver happiness to every home in the world. Their team has started and sold venture-backed startups and have helped scale companies like Instacart, NextDoor, Box, and LinkedIn through their IPOs. | $4.1M | Seed | Jun 15, 2017 |  |
| Starsky Robotics | Trucking is the backbone of the American economy, moving 70% of all freight. Truck drivers risk their lives spending months away from their family to keep the American economy moving.They working to make trucks autonomous on the highway and remote controlled by drivers for the first and last mile. Their trucks will make roads safer while givingdrivers meaningful work close to their homes and families. | $3.8M | Seed | Mar 01, 2017 |  |
| Onfleet | Onfleet is a B2B software company that specializes in last-mile delivery logistics. Onfleet powers millions of deliveries every month for thousands of businesses around the world. Onfleet's customers range from food and beverage delivery services to laundry and dry cleaning, pharmaceutical, retail and e-commerce delivery businesses. Thecompany's product includes a web-based dispatch dashboard for routing, tracking, dispatching, and analytics, intuitive iOS and Android apps for drivers, automated customer notifications and real-time driver tracking, and a robust RESTful API.Onfleet was founded in 2012 by a team of engineers at Stanford University. | $2.6M | Seed | Nov 16, 2016 |  |
| JumpCloud | JumpCloud is an open directory platform for secure, frictionless access from any device to any resource, anywhere. JumpCloud’s mission is to Make Work Happen, providing simple, secure access to corporate technology resources from any device, or any location. The JumpCloud Directory Platform gives IT, security operations, and DevOps a single,cloud-based solution to control and manage employee identities, their devices, and apply Zero Trust principles. JumpCloud has a global user base of more than 100,000 organizations, with over 3,000 customers including Cars.com, GoFundMe, Grab, ClassPass, Uplight, Beyond Finance, and Foursquare. JumpCloud is backed by BlackRock, General Atlantic, OpenView, and Foundry Group. | $4.3M | Series B | Aug 09, 2016 |  |
| Zight | CloudApp is the all-in-one visual sharing platform that lets you record, host, and share short videos, GIFs, and visuals (images, annotated screenshots) to make team and customer conversations faster and more succinct. Enhancing conversations visually means that messages don't get lost in translation! With CloudApp, team collaboration is abreeze. | $2M | Seed | Jun 28, 2016 |  |
| Modal | At Modal, we build the future of auto commerce for the world’s largest auto brands and retailers. We take the moving parts of an auto purchase transaction and assemble them into a simple, digital transaction flow that seamlessly fits any webpage and transforms any showroom. We are a team of leaders from the world’s top technology companies likeGoogle, Facebook, Tesla, Paypal, Accenture and backed by notable investors like Y Combinator, Peter Thiel, Khosla Ventures, and Ally Financial. With our commerce, design, and technology expertise, we’re not just modernizing auto retail, we’re redefining auto ownership. To quote Peter Thiel, Modal is a “complex coordination” of many different technologies, driving billions of dollars in transaction volume every year.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $1.5M | Seed | Mar 22, 2016 |  |

10 of 29 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Flight Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flight-ventures) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Ridge Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ridge-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [AngelList](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angellist) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Fairhaven Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fairhaven-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [First Round Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-round-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Innovation Nest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/innovation-nest) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Pryze

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

The contest automation protocol. Our mission is to decentralize and automate a variety of contest offerings starting with sweepstakes and XPrize challenges.

3 contacts available at Pryze.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Annie Le | CX Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/annie-le |
| Gil Penchina | Co-Founder, Advisor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gil-penchina |
| Peter Franklin | CEO, Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peter-franklin |

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## FAQ

### What does Gil Penchina invest in?

Gil Penchina invests primarily in Software, Mobile and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 29 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Gil Penchina's check size?

Gil Penchina typically joins rounds of $700k–$6M at Seed, $4M–$11M at Series A and $4.3M–$14M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Gil Penchina participates in.

### When did Gil Penchina last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Gil Penchina closed in Oct 2022. Shizune tracks 29 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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