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Uncork Capital is a seed-stage venture firm that commits early, helps with the hard stuff, and sticks around. Really.
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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…
Andy McLoughlin
Sep 18
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.
Amy Saper
Jul 31
Ballots to Boardrooms
Ballots to Boardrooms
Succession Planning is not just for elections, it’s also essential for Tech Companies
Adriana Roche
Jul 30
What kind of Marketer do you need?
What kind of Marketer do you need?
A brief guide for founders and early stage business leaders
Amy Saper
Jun 28
How We Give Our Portfolio Companies the White Glove Treatment
How We Give Our Portfolio Companies the White Glove Treatment
Ashley Cravens
Jun 26
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…
Ashley Cravens
Jun 14
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 &…
Andy McLoughlin
Jun 10
To outsource or not to outsource:
To outsource or not to outsource:
When and why to work with external recruiters
Adriana Roche
Jun 5
Welcome, Unison Computing — Now in GA!
Welcome, Unison Computing — Now in GA!
Andy McLoughlin
Jun 4
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…
Amy Saper
May 29
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…
Jeff Clavier
May 1
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…
Amy Saper
Apr 23
Guide to Product Marketing for startups
Guide to Product Marketing for startups
A primer on Product Marketing, including best practices and insider perspectives from my time at Stripe, Twitter and Uber
Amy Saper
Mar 19
The Founder’s Playbook
The Founder’s Playbook
The Three Cs of your company’s user manual
Adriana Roche
Mar 5
Get out of the building: Why, when, and how to interview your customers
Get out of the building: Why, when, and how to interview your custo...
“Get out of the building.” Sounds like something you scream while watching a horror movie — but it’s also sound business advice.
Amy Saper
Feb 14
Constraints inspire creativity: How to build a massive business in a mediocre economy
Constraints inspire creativity: How to build a massive business in ...
I’m confident that 2024 is going to be a great year for early stage founders, and I’m particularly excited to be investing in seed stage…
Amy Saper
Jan 29
The Multimodal AI Revolution
The Multimodal AI Revolution
Why I’m excited about applications and infrastructure built on top of and for the multimodal world
Sarah Du
Jan 23
A Delayed Welcome to Bezi and Congrats on the Series A!
A Delayed Welcome to Bezi and Congrats on the Series A!
Bezi recently announced their combined $13m Seed + Series A raise. We led Bezi’s $3m Seed round in Dec 2021. 2 years later, we’re thrilled…
Susan Liu
Dec 20, 2023
Why You Should Never Skip Breakfast — or, Welcoming Amy Saper to Uncork Capital
Why You Should Never Skip Breakfast — or, Welcoming Amy Saper to Un...
For the past year or so I’ve been on a bit of a quest: to find Uncork’s final missing piece on the investment team. We wanted someone with…
Andy McLoughlin
Sep 12, 2023
Welcoming Sarah Du to the Uncork team
Welcoming Sarah Du to the Uncork team
We are thrilled to welcome our first-ever Associate, Sarah Du, to the team! Historically, the Partners at Uncork have handled everything…
Susan Liu
Aug 7, 2023
Uncork Raises $400M to Invest in and Support Seed-Stage Startups From Inception Through Growth
Uncork Raises $400M to Invest in and Support Seed-Stage Startups Fr...
Uncork Capital has raised $400 million across two new funds: Uncork VII, a $200M seed fund, and Uncork Plus III, a $200M opportunity fund
Andy McLoughlin
Jun 27, 2023
AI Detectives: Why Uncork Capital Invested in the Sherlock Holmes of the AI World
AI Detectives: Why Uncork Capital Invested in the Sherlock Holmes o...
Generative AI is rapidly revolutionizing content creation by pushing the boundaries of creativity and productivity. With advanced…
Tripp Jones
Jun 21, 2023
Create: empowering everyone to build the software they want
Create: empowering everyone to build the software they want
Building software is far, far easier than it was even five years ago. Language libraries, APIs, infrastructure platforms-as-a-service, etc…
Andy McLoughlin
Apr 3, 2023
The Launch of Follow —
The Launch of Follow —
Believing in Individuals Over Institutions
Tripp Jones
Feb 13, 2023
Presso Raises $8M to Help Hotels Make a Comeback with Low Carbon, Robot Garment Care Machines
Presso Raises $8M to Help Hotels Make a Comeback with Low Carbon, R...
Welcome to the future of clothing care! If you’re tired of long wait times and environmentally harmful dry cleaning practices, you’ll be…
Jeff Clavier
Jan 19, 2023
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