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A short & sweet Guide to Picking the Right Investor (for early stage companies)

A short & sweet Guide to Picking the Right Investor (for early stage companies)

Not all early-stage investors are created equal. Here’s a quick guide to choosing the right kind of investor — and the ones to avoid.
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Sarah Du
Uncork Capital Closes $300M to Support Early-Stage Founders

Uncork Capital Closes $300M to Support Early-Stage Founders

Uncork Capital has raised $300 million in new funds: Uncork VIII, a $225 million seed fund, and Uncork Plus IV, a $75 million growth fund.
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Andy McLoughlin
Productive Friction: Why Elite Tech Teams Design for Disagreement

Productive Friction: Why Elite Tech Teams Design for Disagreement

Too many teams treat conflict like a bug when it’s actually a feature.
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Adriana Roche
Numeral’s Big Opportunity: Why We Invested in the Future of Sales Tax

Numeral’s Big Opportunity: Why We Invested in the Future of Sales Tax

Sales tax compliance is a necessary but notoriously complex aspect of running a business — a $15 billion market dominated for years by big…
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Susan Liu
The Job Search Is Broken: Why Uncork Capital Invested in Final Round AI

The Job Search Is Broken: Why Uncork Capital Invested in Final Roun...

By Tripp Jones and Sarah Du
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Sarah Du
What I’m excited for in 2025: more models, more use cases, more action

What I’m excited for in 2025: more models, more use cases, more action

Last year, I wrote about the rise of multimodal AI and why I was excited for modalities beyond text — including image, speech, and video…
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Sarah Du
Welcoming Whitney Bouck as Board Partner & Go-To-Market Advisor at Uncork Capital

Welcoming Whitney Bouck as Board Partner & Go-To-Market Advisor at ...

Sometimes you don’t know where or when you’ll meet your next great friend and potential future colleague. In this case, it was at an…
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Andy McLoughlin
Nuon: Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC), for Everyone

Nuon: Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC), for Everyone

Some startups tackle flashy problems that grab headlines, while others roll up their sleeves to solve the gnarly, foundational challenges…
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Andy McLoughlin
A short & sweet Guide to Investor Updates (for early stage companies)

A short & sweet Guide to Investor Updates (for early stage companies)

Recently, a founder friend asked me what the best investor updates we get look like. Figured it would be fun (and hopefully helpful!) to…
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Sarah Du
The Entrepreneur Economy and Our Investment in DubClub

The Entrepreneur Economy and Our Investment in DubClub

Over the past five years, we have witnessed the general rise and cultural popularization of the concept of the creator economy. You’d…
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Tripp Jones
Stop blocking, start enabling — welcome, SurePath AI!

Stop blocking, start enabling — welcome, SurePath AI!

Generative AI (GenAI) rocketed onto the scene in 2023. Ever since, enterprises have faced a critical dilemma: go all-in with this…
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Andy McLoughlin
9 lessons from Uncork’s 2024 Portfolio Summit

9 lessons from Uncork’s 2024 Portfolio Summit

Every year, Uncork hosts a portfolio summit for our portfolio companies’ founders and execs. We orchestrate breakout sessions, lightning…
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Sarah Du
How to Get Your First 10 Customers: Key Takeaways from Edith Harbaugh of LaunchDarkly

How to Get Your First 10 Customers: Key Takeaways from Edith Harbau...

“Only the truly desperate would buy from an early stage startup…”
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Susan Liu
Stemming a rising tide — welcome, c/side! 🌊

Stemming a rising tide — welcome, c/side! 🌊

As a long-time investor in developer tools and infrastructure companies, I love finding early-mover startups solving an overlooked problem…
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Andy McLoughlin
Mission, vision, and values: setting your startup up for success

Mission, vision, and values: setting your startup up for success

Why and how to create the foundational building blocks that drive corporate culture, inform hiring practices, and affect business outcomes.
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Amy Saper
Ballots to Boardrooms

Ballots to Boardrooms

Succession Planning is not just for elections, it’s also essential for Tech Companies
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Adriana Roche
What kind of Marketer do you need?

What kind of Marketer do you need?

A brief guide for founders and early stage business leaders
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Amy Saper
How We Give Our Portfolio Companies the White Glove Treatment

How We Give Our Portfolio Companies the White Glove Treatment

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Ashley Cravens
Uncorking Value, Together

Uncorking Value, Together

At Uncork Capital, we view founders as the driving force behind progress, and one of our core missions is to support them in bringing their…
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Ashley Cravens
Brilliant Enterprise Magic — welcome Bem!

Brilliant Enterprise Magic — welcome Bem!

Y Combinator famously encourages their companies to “build something people want”. As a regular investor in developer tools &…
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Andy McLoughlin
To outsource or not to outsource:

To outsource or not to outsource:

When and why to work with external recruiters
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Adriana Roche
Welcome, Unison Computing — Now in GA!

Welcome, Unison Computing — Now in GA!

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Andy McLoughlin
Let your customers do your marketing: A practical guide to creating customer case studies and…

Let your customers do your marketing: A practical guide to creating...

It’s no secret that case studies and customer testimonials can be wildly effective at piquing top-of-funnel interest and converting new…
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Amy Saper
Twenty Years of Uncorking Innovation

Twenty Years of Uncorking Innovation

Twenty years! On May 1st, 2004, we filed incorporation papers for SoftTech VC Inc, which became the management company of our first five…
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Jeff Clavier
How to find and select your first 10 customers

How to find and select your first 10 customers

For a B2B company, one of the very first things you need to do after founding your company is search for your first ten customers. The…
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Amy Saper
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