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Conviction from zero

Uncork is a seed-stage venture firm investing in founder potential long before it’s obvious.

Companies

GPTZero

• AI detection, preserving what is human.
• Founded: 2023
• Partners since: 2023

Tailscale

• Networking reimagined by legendary systems engineers.
• Founded: 2019
• Partners since: 2019

Human Interest

• Retirement, rebuilt where others saw red tape.
• Founded: 2015
• Partners since: 2015

Loft Orbital

• Satellites, standardized and deployed like servers.
• Founded: 2017
• Partners since: 2017

Gamma

• Beautifully-designed presentations and websites, without the headache.
• Founded: 2020
• Partners since: 2025

Numeral

• Sales tax on autopilot.
• Founded: 2022
• Partners since: 2023

LaunchDarkly

• Code shipping anxiety turned into a platform.
• Founded: 2014
• Partners since: 2015

SendGrid

• Email as infrastructure — a fresh look at the foundation.
• Founded: 2009
• Partners since: 2009

Groq

• AI compute, stripped down to pure speed.
• Founded: 2016
• Partners since: 2025

Built for the earliest stage.

We invest early in the AI-native companies creating leverage, unlocking scale, and pushing industries forward.

Partners for the hard parts, not just the headlines.

Our Team

Andy McLoughlin

Managing Partner

Jeff Clavier

Founding Partner

Amy Saper

General Partner

Susan Liu

General Partner

Tripp Jones

General Partner

Isha Mehrotra

Associate

What we are seeing, learning & backing right now.

Our Thoughts

1. Investing in Knit Health: Clinical Intelligence of the Future
   Tripp Jones

2. Ship APIs, Not Infrastructure: Welcome Unkey

3. Investing in Soma Energy: Making Every Megawatt Count
   Tripp Jones

4. Reflections on staying the distance and Coder's customer-led $90M Series C
   Andy McLoughlin

5. A New Look. The Same Conviction.
   Andy McLoughlin

6. To the edge (again!) — welcoming Mirai to the Uncork portfolio
   Andy McLoughlin

7. Commercializing the only proven fusion science: our investment in Inertia
   Jeff Clavier

8. Investing in Gamma (again!)
   Amy Saper

9. Raising a Series A in an AI-First World
   Susan Liu

10. [Improving Construction Design with AI: Our Investment in Buildcheck](/content/blog/improving-construction-design-with-ai-our-investment-in-buildcheck/index.html)  
    

    Amy Saper

11. [Ten things from ten years in venture](/content/blog/ten-things-from-ten-years-in-venture-3a687d45408c/index.html)  
    

    Andy McLoughlin