# Gil Silberman

> Gil Silberman is a seed investor at Luca Ventures backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Luca Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/luca-ventures-f24f)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Sep 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/gilsilberman
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/gilbug
- Website: http://www.gilsilberman.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/gil.silberman

Gil Silberman is a Managing Partner at Luca Ventures. He attended The University of California, Berkeley - School of Law from 1993 to 1996.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 3 | 60% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 60% |
| Construction | 2 | 40% |
| B2B | 1 | 20% |
| Payments | 1 | 20% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 60% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 40% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 80% |
| Canada | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sequin | Sequin is building a suite of credit products for women, starting with a debit card that builds credit. | $5.7M | Seed | Sep 15, 2021 |  |
| Financial Choice | Financial Choice allows consumers to invest their checking account funds for market returns while retaining instant cash access. Financial Choice provides instant access to cash, automated investing, tax efficiency, and portfolio rebalancing. | $125K | Pre-Seed | Aug 31, 2021 |  |
| Truss | Truss is the fastest and easiest way to move money for construction companies, including general contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, and more. With Truss, construction companies can send and receive payments instantly and for free. Collect money from clients via email and use it immediately to pay suppliers or withdraw via card—all from onesimple dashboard. No transfer fees, no hidden costs, and no-nonsense. | $656.6K | Seed | Mar 31, 2021 |  |
| Angle Health | Angle Health provides a technology-enabled health insurance platform to simplify employer-sponsored healthcare benefits. The company's service offers fully configurable group health plans that employers can tailor and deploy quickly through its “Benefit Builder” and “Quote-to-Card” tools, often eliminating the need for individual member-levelunderwriting. It integrates medical, pharmacy, demographic, claims, and population-health data with AI-enabled analytics to help employers, brokers, and care teams anticipate health needs and design plans accordingly.Angle Health’s plans typically include telemedicine, digital behavioral health, chronic-disease management, and access to a national network of doctors and providers—services that are often bundled into standard coverage. | $4M | Seed | Jul 21, 2020 |  |
| Homestead | Homestead is powering the transition to a new type of homeownership. It is opening up new opportunities for affordable housing throughout California, effectively turning every homeowner into a developer.In exchange for the use of their backyard, its products provide existing homeowners with $250k-$1.5M in income to build new homes that sell for25% less than the market average. | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | May 13, 2020 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Liquid 2 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liquid2-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Scribble Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scribble-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [TSVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tsvcap) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [AMJ Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amj-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Blumberg Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blumberg-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Luca Ventures

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Luca Ventures is an SF-based micro-VC launching two funds in 2021: a $20 million pre-seed fund for US-based enterprise Fintech, and a $10 million secondary fund for pre-IPO employee liquidity

1 contacts available at Luca Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gil Silberman | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gil-silberman |

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## FAQ

### What does Gil Silberman invest in?

Gil Silberman invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Construction startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Gil Silberman last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Gil Silberman closed in Sep 2021. Shizune tracks 5 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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