TL;DR: Uncork Capital has raised $400 million across two new funds: Uncork VII, a $200 million seed fund, and Uncork Plus III, a $200 million growth fund dedicated to follow-on support for Uncork companies when they break out. This post is not about AI. Or crypto. Or spatial computing. This…

Building software is far, far easier than it was even five years ago. …

You might not guess that someone who owned a deadly Anaconda as a kid would grow up to be an extremely high-EQ person who built a career on their keen understanding of people, but then you’d be wrong. In this instance, said person is Adriana Roche: an empathetic, extroverted, strategic…

A little over three years ago I welcomed Bob Moore back to the Uncork portfolio with his startup Crossbeam and today I’m delighted to announce that Jake Stein, the (taller) other half of the dynamic ex-RJ Metrics duo, has graciously allowed Uncork Capital back into the boat as seed co-lead…

“When you know, you know”. This saying is true for many things in our personal lives but it also holds for when investors meet very special entrepreneurs. I was first introduced to Jaleh and her co-founder Nikhil by our mutual friend Adam Nelson who had studied with her at the…

Confession time: I’d actually meant to finish (it’s been in drafts for like three years) writing this on my fifth anniversary at Uncork Capital (née SoftTech VC) but like so many things in the early days of the pandemic it was put to one side in favor of trying to…

Like most investors, we spent the early part of Q2 focusing on our portfolio — helping founders with planning for the “new normal” we all found ourselves in, figuring out runway and where to cut costs, as well as weighing potential bridge financings. However, by late April we began to…

Every so often you witness a product launch that captures the imagination of its intended audience, and very, very occasionally you have the good fortune to be involved in some small way. …

SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) is everywhere. According to a new report by KBV Research, the global SaaS market is expected to attain a market size of $185.8 billion by 2024, growing at a CAGR of 21.4%. SaaS now touches almost every aspect of the modern business, regardless of industry, location, size, or…