Dennis Pilarinos

Dennis Pilarinos

Operator Angel

Open Angel, Bloomberg Beta

Developer tools founder and enterprise angel investor

Vancouver, BC, Canada
Pre-SeedSeed
Developer ToolsEnterprise SaaSAIInfrastructureSecurity

Background

Dennis Pilarinos is a Bloomberg Beta Open Angel and the founder/CEO of Unblocked, an AI developer context platform. He previously built and led Buddybuild, a mobile CI/CD platform acquired by Apple in 2018, and spent nearly a decade at Microsoft as Principal Program Manager Lead on Visual Studio and .NET. He has also directed development technologies at AWS. Based in Vancouver, Canada, he brings rare domain expertise in developer tooling from both big tech and startup perspectives.

Investment Thesis

Investing in developer-first companies building tools that meaningfully improve engineering productivity and the software development lifecycle.

Investment Focus

Stages

Pre-SeedSeed

Sectors

Developer ToolsEnterprise SaaSAIInfrastructureSecurity

Based in: Vancouver, BC, Canada (North America)

Last updated: Jun 11, 2026