Conviction from zero
Uncork is a seed-stage venture firm investing in founder potential long before it’s obvious.
Companies
Loft Orbital
- Founded: 2017
- Partners since: 2017
- Description: Satellites, standardized and deployed like servers.
Loft Orbital
Gamma
- Founded: 2020
- Partners since: 2025
- Description: Beautifully-designed presentations and websites, without the headache.
Gamma
Numeral
- Founded: 2022
- Partners since: 2023
- Description: Sales tax on autopilot.
Numeral
LaunchDarkly
- Founded: 2014
- Partners since: 2015
- Description: Code shipping anxiety turned into a platform.
LaunchDarkly
SendGrid
- Founded: 2009
- Partners since: 2009
- Description: Email as infrastructure — a fresh look at the foundation.
SendGrid
Groq
- Founded: 2016
- Partners since: 2025
- Description: AI compute, stripped down to pure speed.
Groq
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.
Team Members
Andy McLoughlin
Andy McLoughlin
Jeff Clavier
Jeff Clavier
Amy Saper
Amy Saper
Susan Liu
Susan Liu
Tripp Jones
Tripp Jones
Isha Mehrotra
Isha Mehrotra
What we are seeing, learning & backing right now.
Recent Thoughts
Investing in Knit Health: Clinical Intelligence of the Future
Tripp Jones
Ship APIs, Not Infrastructure: Welcome Unkey
Ship APIs
Investing in Soma Energy: Making Every Megawatt Count
Tripp Jones
Reflections on staying the distance and Coder's customer-led $90M Series C
Andy McLoughlin
A New Look. The Same Conviction.
Andy McLoughlin
To the edge (again!) — welcoming Mirai to the Uncork portfolio
Andy McLoughlin
Commercializing the only proven fusion science: our investment in Inertia
Jeff Clavier
Investing in Gamma (again!)
Amy Saper
Raising a Series A in an AI-First World
Susan Liu
Improving Construction Design with AI: Our Investment in Buildcheck
Amy Saper
Ten things from ten years in venture
Andy McLoughlin