Uncork Capital

Uncork Capital, formerly known as SoftTech VC, is a venture capital firm founded in 2004 and based in Palo Alto, California. The firm specializes in seed-stage investments, focusing on various sectors including software as a service (SaaS), consumer goods, healthcare, technology, and marketplace startups. It manages two primary funds: a $100 million Seed fund and a $100 million Opportunity fund, which targets larger investments in mature portfolio companies. Uncork Capital typically invests between $250,000 and $5 million in each portfolio company, with a preference for equity investments, particularly for raises above $750,000. The firm actively seeks opportunities in both B2B and B2C sectors and aims to maintain a portfolio duration of five to seven years. While it primarily invests in the United States, particularly in regions such as Silicon Valley and New York, it may consider opportunities in Canada or elsewhere if a strong local lead is involved. Uncork Capital also provides support in product development, marketing, business strategy, and financing.

Jeff Clavier

Founder and Managing Partner

Jean-Francois Clavier

Founder and Managing Partner

Sarah Du

Associate

Tripp Jones

Partner

Susan Liu

Partner

Amy Saper

Partner

Past deals in CRM

Continuum Technology

Series A in 2022
Continuum Technology offers software that manages executive availability, contracts, invoices, and payments. It is a platform that enables fractional time executives, allowing them to monetize their expertise and automate your back office.

Front

Series D in 2022
Front is a collaborative customer communication platform that integrates email and applications to enhance interactions between teams and customers. By offering a shared inbox, Front enables businesses to manage communications efficiently and foster meaningful relationships. The platform is utilized by over 6,000 organizations to scale personalized customer engagement and streamline workflows, ultimately driving significant business impact. Through its focus on facilitating natural conversations, Front helps companies cultivate enduring customer relationships and transform their operational effectiveness.

MonetizeNow

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of enterprise monetization platform designed to help businesses increase sales targets. The company's API-based platform features omnichannel, integrated CPQ and billing, testable code, customer relationship management, data administration, and other related features, enabling clients to monetize their business, boost sales, and generate profits.

Crossbeam

Series C in 2021
Crossbeam, Inc. is a software-as-a-service company that has developed a collaborative data platform aimed at facilitating valuable partnerships among businesses. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Crossbeam enables companies to discover overlapping customers and prospects with their partners while ensuring the security and privacy of their data. The platform acts as an escrow service, allowing for secure data sharing that enhances alliances, supports go-to-market strategies, and improves customer service. With features that automatically update customer and prospect information, Crossbeam provides an intuitive interface for defining key populations and establishing secure data-sharing relationships, ultimately helping businesses close more deals, enhance product development, and measure their success effectively.

UserGems

Series A in 2021
UserGems is an AI-powered prospecting solution for revenue teams. By delivering prospects that are most likely to convert, UserGems helps companies drive bigger pipeline, faster sales cycle, and larger deals. Whenever your customers change their jobs, UserGems automatically surfaces them as new prospects to your sales reps. This allows your reps to be in front of the right buyers at the right time, and before the competition is. Leveraging machine learning, UserGems automatically identifies other prospects that look exactly like your best customers. That means you get a complete, up-to-date list of leads that match your ideal customer profile, persona and other key criteria without requiring reps to spends hours on researching.

Groove

Series B in 2021
Groove Labs, Inc. is a sales engagement platform that specializes in automating non-sales activities to enhance the productivity of sales teams. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, with additional offices in San Diego and Bellevue, the company offers a range of solutions, including email and calendar integration, custom multi-step campaign creation, and a dialer tool designed to streamline the sales process. Groove's Salesforce-native architecture allows for accurate reporting and compliance with global privacy laws, making it suitable for enterprises. Its platform is utilized by over 50,000 sales representatives and customer success managers at major companies, helping them reclaim valuable time for relationship-building and revenue generation. Groove has consistently received high customer satisfaction ratings and has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing privately held companies in the United States.

Continuum Technology

Seed Round in 2021
Continuum Technology offers software that manages executive availability, contracts, invoices, and payments. It is a platform that enables fractional time executives, allowing them to monetize their expertise and automate your back office.

UserGems

Seed Round in 2021
UserGems is an AI-powered prospecting solution for revenue teams. By delivering prospects that are most likely to convert, UserGems helps companies drive bigger pipeline, faster sales cycle, and larger deals. Whenever your customers change their jobs, UserGems automatically surfaces them as new prospects to your sales reps. This allows your reps to be in front of the right buyers at the right time, and before the competition is. Leveraging machine learning, UserGems automatically identifies other prospects that look exactly like your best customers. That means you get a complete, up-to-date list of leads that match your ideal customer profile, persona and other key criteria without requiring reps to spends hours on researching.

Craft

Series A in 2020
Craft is a data and analytics platform that leverages machine learning to create a comprehensive "Source of Truth" on companies and the global economy. By aggregating financial, operational, and human capital data from a multitude of sources, Craft offers detailed sector and company profiles that cater to a wide range of organizations, from startups to large corporations. The platform features tools such as signal alerts, trend analysis, and benchmarking to help users monitor and optimize their supply chains and enterprise ecosystems. Its cloud-based portal is designed to seamlessly integrate into existing workflows, enabling clients to access valuable insights and compare key metrics across various companies worldwide.

Crossbeam

Series B in 2020
Crossbeam, Inc. is a software-as-a-service company that has developed a collaborative data platform aimed at facilitating valuable partnerships among businesses. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Crossbeam enables companies to discover overlapping customers and prospects with their partners while ensuring the security and privacy of their data. The platform acts as an escrow service, allowing for secure data sharing that enhances alliances, supports go-to-market strategies, and improves customer service. With features that automatically update customer and prospect information, Crossbeam provides an intuitive interface for defining key populations and establishing secure data-sharing relationships, ultimately helping businesses close more deals, enhance product development, and measure their success effectively.

Groove

Series A in 2020
Groove Labs, Inc. is a sales engagement platform that specializes in automating non-sales activities to enhance the productivity of sales teams. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, with additional offices in San Diego and Bellevue, the company offers a range of solutions, including email and calendar integration, custom multi-step campaign creation, and a dialer tool designed to streamline the sales process. Groove's Salesforce-native architecture allows for accurate reporting and compliance with global privacy laws, making it suitable for enterprises. Its platform is utilized by over 50,000 sales representatives and customer success managers at major companies, helping them reclaim valuable time for relationship-building and revenue generation. Groove has consistently received high customer satisfaction ratings and has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing privately held companies in the United States.

Front

Series C in 2020
Front is a collaborative customer communication platform that integrates email and applications to enhance interactions between teams and customers. By offering a shared inbox, Front enables businesses to manage communications efficiently and foster meaningful relationships. The platform is utilized by over 6,000 organizations to scale personalized customer engagement and streamline workflows, ultimately driving significant business impact. Through its focus on facilitating natural conversations, Front helps companies cultivate enduring customer relationships and transform their operational effectiveness.

Crossbeam

Series A in 2019
Crossbeam, Inc. is a software-as-a-service company that has developed a collaborative data platform aimed at facilitating valuable partnerships among businesses. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Crossbeam enables companies to discover overlapping customers and prospects with their partners while ensuring the security and privacy of their data. The platform acts as an escrow service, allowing for secure data sharing that enhances alliances, supports go-to-market strategies, and improves customer service. With features that automatically update customer and prospect information, Crossbeam provides an intuitive interface for defining key populations and establishing secure data-sharing relationships, ultimately helping businesses close more deals, enhance product development, and measure their success effectively.

Crossbeam

Seed Round in 2018
Crossbeam, Inc. is a software-as-a-service company that has developed a collaborative data platform aimed at facilitating valuable partnerships among businesses. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Crossbeam enables companies to discover overlapping customers and prospects with their partners while ensuring the security and privacy of their data. The platform acts as an escrow service, allowing for secure data sharing that enhances alliances, supports go-to-market strategies, and improves customer service. With features that automatically update customer and prospect information, Crossbeam provides an intuitive interface for defining key populations and establishing secure data-sharing relationships, ultimately helping businesses close more deals, enhance product development, and measure their success effectively.

Front

Series B in 2018
Front is a collaborative customer communication platform that integrates email and applications to enhance interactions between teams and customers. By offering a shared inbox, Front enables businesses to manage communications efficiently and foster meaningful relationships. The platform is utilized by over 6,000 organizations to scale personalized customer engagement and streamline workflows, ultimately driving significant business impact. Through its focus on facilitating natural conversations, Front helps companies cultivate enduring customer relationships and transform their operational effectiveness.

Craft

Seed Round in 2017
Craft is a data and analytics platform that leverages machine learning to create a comprehensive "Source of Truth" on companies and the global economy. By aggregating financial, operational, and human capital data from a multitude of sources, Craft offers detailed sector and company profiles that cater to a wide range of organizations, from startups to large corporations. The platform features tools such as signal alerts, trend analysis, and benchmarking to help users monitor and optimize their supply chains and enterprise ecosystems. Its cloud-based portal is designed to seamlessly integrate into existing workflows, enabling clients to access valuable insights and compare key metrics across various companies worldwide.

Groove

Seed Round in 2016
Groove Labs, Inc. is a sales engagement platform that specializes in automating non-sales activities to enhance the productivity of sales teams. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, with additional offices in San Diego and Bellevue, the company offers a range of solutions, including email and calendar integration, custom multi-step campaign creation, and a dialer tool designed to streamline the sales process. Groove's Salesforce-native architecture allows for accurate reporting and compliance with global privacy laws, making it suitable for enterprises. Its platform is utilized by over 50,000 sales representatives and customer success managers at major companies, helping them reclaim valuable time for relationship-building and revenue generation. Groove has consistently received high customer satisfaction ratings and has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing privately held companies in the United States.

Driftrock

Venture Round in 2016
Driftrock Limited provides applications and tools for multi-channel marketing. It offers Marketing Overview to pull multi-channel marketing reports into a single place; sync marketing, conversion, and visit data; optimize mobiles; download data to CSV; and assist conversions. The company also provides Open Book to identify the ads and campaigns that work and the ones that do not work, create best performing ads, detect and pause worst performing ads, optimize ad images and text, and manage campaigns on the go. In addition, it offers Lead Response to manage, track, and respond to email leads in real-time; and Swift, a paid Twitter analysis solution for campaigns and tweets with near real-time reporting. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Zenreach

Series B in 2016
Zenreach, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in online marketing solutions for businesses with physical locations. Established in 2011, Zenreach focuses on enhancing customer acquisition and lifetime value through its innovative Walk-Through Marketing approach. The company's offerings include Zenreach Engage, which automatically tracks customer visits and develops comprehensive customer profiles, and Zenreach Attract, designed to improve advertising performance by targeting audiences based on existing customers. Zenreach measures success through its proprietary Walk-Through Rateā„¢, which indicates when individuals exposed to an advertisement subsequently visit a location. The company caters to a diverse clientele, including independent merchants and well-known brands, helping them establish meaningful customer relationships that drive real business results.

Front

Series A in 2016
Front is a collaborative customer communication platform that integrates email and applications to enhance interactions between teams and customers. By offering a shared inbox, Front enables businesses to manage communications efficiently and foster meaningful relationships. The platform is utilized by over 6,000 organizations to scale personalized customer engagement and streamline workflows, ultimately driving significant business impact. Through its focus on facilitating natural conversations, Front helps companies cultivate enduring customer relationships and transform their operational effectiveness.

Pattern

Seed Round in 2016
Pattern is a intelligent workspace geared towards sales teams. It prepares research for the user, streamlining the process with built in templates. Pattern can also confirm meetings, automate follow-ups, update stale records and research accounts. Lastly, Pattern uses machine learning to surface risk and momentum signals in your pipeline using data from email, calendar, and Salesforce.

Thanx

Series A in 2014
Thanx, Inc. operates a customer relationship management and digital engagement platform designed for offline businesses, including brick-and-mortar retailers, restaurants, and malls. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Thanx assists these businesses in adapting to the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic by enabling digital purchasing and enhancing customer data collection. The platform offers a range of services, including customer insights, loyalty programs, messaging campaigns, real-time feedback, revenue reporting, online ordering, and email marketing. Through proprietary integrations with credit card networks, Thanx ensures accurate and comprehensive purchase data, which is integral to its CRM and marketing automation tools, allowing businesses to personalize interactions with their customers effectively.

Front

Seed Round in 2014
Front is a collaborative customer communication platform that integrates email and applications to enhance interactions between teams and customers. By offering a shared inbox, Front enables businesses to manage communications efficiently and foster meaningful relationships. The platform is utilized by over 6,000 organizations to scale personalized customer engagement and streamline workflows, ultimately driving significant business impact. Through its focus on facilitating natural conversations, Front helps companies cultivate enduring customer relationships and transform their operational effectiveness.

RJMetrics

Series B in 2014
RJMetrics is a business intelligence software provider that addresses the analytical challenges faced by high-growth online companies. By consolidating data from various sources such as backend databases, marketing platforms, CRM systems, and e-commerce platforms into a cloud-based data warehouse, RJMetrics enables users to manage and analyze their data effectively. The platform offers an intuitive user interface that facilitates exploration and actionable insights, helping businesses gain a comprehensive understanding of their customer life-cycle. This holistic approach allows organizations to leverage data for informed decision-making and to optimize their operations in a data-driven environment.

RJMetrics

Series A in 2013
RJMetrics is a business intelligence software provider that addresses the analytical challenges faced by high-growth online companies. By consolidating data from various sources such as backend databases, marketing platforms, CRM systems, and e-commerce platforms into a cloud-based data warehouse, RJMetrics enables users to manage and analyze their data effectively. The platform offers an intuitive user interface that facilitates exploration and actionable insights, helping businesses gain a comprehensive understanding of their customer life-cycle. This holistic approach allows organizations to leverage data for informed decision-making and to optimize their operations in a data-driven environment.

RedCap

Seed Round in 2013
RedCap is a platform that operates as a membership-based, premium driver-on-demand service. Its appointments solution is user-friendly and uses sophisticated capacity management algorithms to guide their BDC and customers on their website to properly schedule service appointments at intervals that smooth out daily demand.

Thanx

Seed Round in 2012
Thanx, Inc. operates a customer relationship management and digital engagement platform designed for offline businesses, including brick-and-mortar retailers, restaurants, and malls. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Thanx assists these businesses in adapting to the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic by enabling digital purchasing and enhancing customer data collection. The platform offers a range of services, including customer insights, loyalty programs, messaging campaigns, real-time feedback, revenue reporting, online ordering, and email marketing. Through proprietary integrations with credit card networks, Thanx ensures accurate and comprehensive purchase data, which is integral to its CRM and marketing automation tools, allowing businesses to personalize interactions with their customers effectively.

RJMetrics

Debt Financing in 2012
RJMetrics is a business intelligence software provider that addresses the analytical challenges faced by high-growth online companies. By consolidating data from various sources such as backend databases, marketing platforms, CRM systems, and e-commerce platforms into a cloud-based data warehouse, RJMetrics enables users to manage and analyze their data effectively. The platform offers an intuitive user interface that facilitates exploration and actionable insights, helping businesses gain a comprehensive understanding of their customer life-cycle. This holistic approach allows organizations to leverage data for informed decision-making and to optimize their operations in a data-driven environment.

FanBridge

Series A in 2010
FanBridge, Inc. offers a fan relationship management platform that integrates email marketing and social networking to help artists, brands, and content creators grow, engage, and monetize their fan bases. The company provides tools for managing fan acquisition, retention, and engagement, serving a diverse clientele that includes musicians, comedians, YouTubers, and major brands. FanBridge's services enable clients to establish direct connections with their audiences through various channels, including email and social media, while also offering integrated advertising solutions that allow brands to effectively reach their target demographics. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in New York, FanBridge has established itself as a prominent player in the fan audience CRM space, managing over 600 million fan relationships.

Kissmetrics

Series A in 2009
Kissmetrics is a customer engagement automation platform that specializes in behavioral analytics and segmentation. Founded in 2008, the company provides businesses with tools to identify, understand, and improve key performance metrics. Kissmetrics enables users to measure and attribute customer actions across various digital devices, facilitating a deeper understanding of customer behavior. The platform streamlines workflows by allowing users to review experiment results within a familiar dashboard, connecting these insights to existing business metrics. Additionally, Kissmetrics offers email campaign automation, empowering online businesses to enhance their engagement strategies effectively. With a dedicated team of designers, developers, and entrepreneurs, Kissmetrics aims to assist businesses in measuring, growing, and monetizing their online presence.

FanBridge

Seed Round in 2009
FanBridge, Inc. offers a fan relationship management platform that integrates email marketing and social networking to help artists, brands, and content creators grow, engage, and monetize their fan bases. The company provides tools for managing fan acquisition, retention, and engagement, serving a diverse clientele that includes musicians, comedians, YouTubers, and major brands. FanBridge's services enable clients to establish direct connections with their audiences through various channels, including email and social media, while also offering integrated advertising solutions that allow brands to effectively reach their target demographics. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in New York, FanBridge has established itself as a prominent player in the fan audience CRM space, managing over 600 million fan relationships.
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