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 Sales Automation

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.

Forma

Series B in 2022
Forma AI, Incorporated is a Toronto-based information technology company that specializes in software solutions for managing sales incentives and compensation within organizations. Founded in 2016, the company offers several products, including Forma Operator, which facilitates commission compensation processing; Forma Responder, which oversees variable compensation; and Forma Interpreter, which provides visualization, reporting, and updating of sales payouts. Through these offerings, Forma aims to streamline and enhance the management of sales compensation, helping organizations optimize their incentive structures.

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.

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.

Upscribe

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a subscription software designed to move beyond managing subscriptions to growing subscribers. The company's software helps to manage membership pricing, add or swap products and skip shipping, enabling D2C eCommerce merchants to drive subscriber growth, reduce churn and optimize operations.

Forma

Series A in 2021
Forma AI, Incorporated is a Toronto-based information technology company that specializes in software solutions for managing sales incentives and compensation within organizations. Founded in 2016, the company offers several products, including Forma Operator, which facilitates commission compensation processing; Forma Responder, which oversees variable compensation; and Forma Interpreter, which provides visualization, reporting, and updating of sales payouts. Through these offerings, Forma aims to streamline and enhance the management of sales compensation, helping organizations optimize their incentive structures.

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.

Stensul

Series B in 2020
Stensul, Inc. is a New York-based company that offers a hosted Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) email creation platform designed for enterprises and large organizations globally. Founded in 2016, the platform enables users to efficiently create and deliver mobile-responsive emails for various purposes, such as email-based customer relationship management and marketing automation. By streamlining the email creation process and reducing the reliance on designers and developers, Stensul allows marketers to concentrate on producing engaging content that drives results. The platform is centralized, scalable, and tailored to individual brands, facilitating the quick generation of emails that can be sent directly through users' existing email service providers or marketing clouds.

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.

Aizon

Series B in 2019
Aizon is an AI software provider that transforms manufacturing operations with the use of advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, and other smart factory technologies focused on optimizing production within highly regulated industries. The Aizon AI platform seamlessly integrates unlimited sources of structured and unstructured data to deliver actionable insights across all manufacturing sites. Aizon offers an intuitive way to gain meaningful operational intelligence by enabling real-time visibility and predictive insights in a GxP compliant manner with end-to-end data integrity.

Tempo Automation

Series C in 2019
Tempo Automation Inc. is a San Francisco-based electronics manufacturer specializing in the prototyping and low-volume production of printed circuit board assemblies. Founded in 2013, the company leverages a proprietary automation platform that integrates software, data analytics, and advanced manufacturing techniques to enhance speed, precision, and transparency in the development process. This innovative approach creates a seamless digital connection from design to delivery, allowing hardware developers to accelerate innovation and bring new products to market more efficiently. The company's smart factory is designed to optimize the complexities of electronics manufacturing, providing significant advantages in quality and agility for its clients. Tempo Automation is backed by various investors, including venture capital firms and individual investors, who support its mission to transform electronic product development.

Stensul

Series A in 2018
Stensul, Inc. is a New York-based company that offers a hosted Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) email creation platform designed for enterprises and large organizations globally. Founded in 2016, the platform enables users to efficiently create and deliver mobile-responsive emails for various purposes, such as email-based customer relationship management and marketing automation. By streamlining the email creation process and reducing the reliance on designers and developers, Stensul allows marketers to concentrate on producing engaging content that drives results. The platform is centralized, scalable, and tailored to individual brands, facilitating the quick generation of emails that can be sent directly through users' existing email service providers or marketing clouds.

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.

Aizon

Seed Round in 2017
Aizon is an AI software provider that transforms manufacturing operations with the use of advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, and other smart factory technologies focused on optimizing production within highly regulated industries. The Aizon AI platform seamlessly integrates unlimited sources of structured and unstructured data to deliver actionable insights across all manufacturing sites. Aizon offers an intuitive way to gain meaningful operational intelligence by enabling real-time visibility and predictive insights in a GxP compliant manner with end-to-end data integrity.

Tempo Automation

Series B in 2017
Tempo Automation Inc. is a San Francisco-based electronics manufacturer specializing in the prototyping and low-volume production of printed circuit board assemblies. Founded in 2013, the company leverages a proprietary automation platform that integrates software, data analytics, and advanced manufacturing techniques to enhance speed, precision, and transparency in the development process. This innovative approach creates a seamless digital connection from design to delivery, allowing hardware developers to accelerate innovation and bring new products to market more efficiently. The company's smart factory is designed to optimize the complexities of electronics manufacturing, providing significant advantages in quality and agility for its clients. Tempo Automation is backed by various investors, including venture capital firms and individual investors, who support its mission to transform electronic product development.

Sapho

Series B in 2017
Sapho empowers employees with a modern portal experience that surfaces personalized and relevant tasks and data using micro-apps. Sapho micro apps are built by IT on top of existing systems using pre-built templates and a drag-and-drop micro app builder. These micro apps available on any device, intranet, or messenger provide employees proactive notifications about interesting system data, actions that need to be completed, and changes in business data that require attention. It was founded in 2014, the company is headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States.

Stensul

Seed Round in 2016
Stensul, Inc. is a New York-based company that offers a hosted Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) email creation platform designed for enterprises and large organizations globally. Founded in 2016, the platform enables users to efficiently create and deliver mobile-responsive emails for various purposes, such as email-based customer relationship management and marketing automation. By streamlining the email creation process and reducing the reliance on designers and developers, Stensul allows marketers to concentrate on producing engaging content that drives results. The platform is centralized, scalable, and tailored to individual brands, facilitating the quick generation of emails that can be sent directly through users' existing email service providers or marketing clouds.

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.

Aizon

Convertible Note in 2016
Aizon is an AI software provider that transforms manufacturing operations with the use of advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, and other smart factory technologies focused on optimizing production within highly regulated industries. The Aizon AI platform seamlessly integrates unlimited sources of structured and unstructured data to deliver actionable insights across all manufacturing sites. Aizon offers an intuitive way to gain meaningful operational intelligence by enabling real-time visibility and predictive insights in a GxP compliant manner with end-to-end data integrity.

Tempo Automation

Series A in 2016
Tempo Automation Inc. is a San Francisco-based electronics manufacturer specializing in the prototyping and low-volume production of printed circuit board assemblies. Founded in 2013, the company leverages a proprietary automation platform that integrates software, data analytics, and advanced manufacturing techniques to enhance speed, precision, and transparency in the development process. This innovative approach creates a seamless digital connection from design to delivery, allowing hardware developers to accelerate innovation and bring new products to market more efficiently. The company's smart factory is designed to optimize the complexities of electronics manufacturing, providing significant advantages in quality and agility for its clients. Tempo Automation is backed by various investors, including venture capital firms and individual investors, who support its mission to transform electronic product development.

Sapho

Series A in 2016
Sapho empowers employees with a modern portal experience that surfaces personalized and relevant tasks and data using micro-apps. Sapho micro apps are built by IT on top of existing systems using pre-built templates and a drag-and-drop micro app builder. These micro apps available on any device, intranet, or messenger provide employees proactive notifications about interesting system data, actions that need to be completed, and changes in business data that require attention. It was founded in 2014, the company is headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States.

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.

Handshake

Series B in 2016
Handshake Corp. is a B2B eCommerce platform that facilitates online and in-person trade for manufacturers and distributors across various industries, including music, gifts, toys, fashion, eyewear, healthcare, and outdoor sectors. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York, Handshake provides an online sales order application that supports mobile order writing, web order management, and back office integration. The platform enhances the buying and selling processes by allowing sales representatives and customers to place orders easily from any device, at any time. Additionally, it offers personalized experiences by incorporating updated account information, customer-specific pricing, order history, and tailored product catalogs, thereby strengthening relationships between suppliers and their clients. As of May 2019, Handshake operates as a subsidiary of Shopify Inc.

Kahuna

Series B in 2015
Kahuna creates highly personalized experiences for every buyer and every seller for the world’s leading marketplaces. Kahuna is the platform of choice for meeting the needs of marketplaces, using state of the art machine-learning technology to drive extreme personalization, product and pricing optimization, trust, and engagement. With more than 144 million engaged users, over 4 billion messages sent, and 46 billion optimized events, Kahuna is the proven solution for marketplaces of all sizes. Headquartered in Redwood City, CA, with global locations, Kahuna investors include Sequoia Capital, Tenaya Capital, and Uncork Capital. Learn more at http://www.kahuna.com

Tempo Automation

Seed Round in 2015
Tempo Automation Inc. is a San Francisco-based electronics manufacturer specializing in the prototyping and low-volume production of printed circuit board assemblies. Founded in 2013, the company leverages a proprietary automation platform that integrates software, data analytics, and advanced manufacturing techniques to enhance speed, precision, and transparency in the development process. This innovative approach creates a seamless digital connection from design to delivery, allowing hardware developers to accelerate innovation and bring new products to market more efficiently. The company's smart factory is designed to optimize the complexities of electronics manufacturing, providing significant advantages in quality and agility for its clients. Tempo Automation is backed by various investors, including venture capital firms and individual investors, who support its mission to transform electronic product development.

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.

Sapho

Seed Round in 2014
Sapho empowers employees with a modern portal experience that surfaces personalized and relevant tasks and data using micro-apps. Sapho micro apps are built by IT on top of existing systems using pre-built templates and a drag-and-drop micro app builder. These micro apps available on any device, intranet, or messenger provide employees proactive notifications about interesting system data, actions that need to be completed, and changes in business data that require attention. It was founded in 2014, the company is headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States.

Soldsie

Series A in 2014
Soldsie is a social commerce platform that enables merchants to monetize their Facebook pages by facilitating purchases through customer comments. Customers register their payment information with Soldsie, allowing them to comment on products posted by merchants to trigger a charge and initiate the shipping process. The platform allows brands to display their products with images on social media, enhancing engagement and enabling direct sales through comments. Merchants benefit from an administrative dashboard that helps them manage inventory and shipping while increasing user interaction through comments, views, and viral shares.

Stitch

Seed Round in 2014
Stitch is a mobile-first sales productivity platform designed to enhance the efficiency of salespeople. Its primary offering is a mobile email application that enables sales professionals to communicate swiftly and effectively by providing them with essential information and insights at their fingertips. In an increasingly competitive landscape, Stitch emphasizes the importance of being responsive, allowing salespeople to address prospects' inquiries promptly, rather than delaying responses. By focusing on mobile accessibility, Stitch aims to empower sales teams to build stronger customer relationships and close more deals efficiently.

Kahuna

Series A in 2014
Kahuna creates highly personalized experiences for every buyer and every seller for the world’s leading marketplaces. Kahuna is the platform of choice for meeting the needs of marketplaces, using state of the art machine-learning technology to drive extreme personalization, product and pricing optimization, trust, and engagement. With more than 144 million engaged users, over 4 billion messages sent, and 46 billion optimized events, Kahuna is the proven solution for marketplaces of all sizes. Headquartered in Redwood City, CA, with global locations, Kahuna investors include Sequoia Capital, Tenaya Capital, and Uncork Capital. Learn more at http://www.kahuna.com

Kahuna

Seed Round in 2013
Kahuna creates highly personalized experiences for every buyer and every seller for the world’s leading marketplaces. Kahuna is the platform of choice for meeting the needs of marketplaces, using state of the art machine-learning technology to drive extreme personalization, product and pricing optimization, trust, and engagement. With more than 144 million engaged users, over 4 billion messages sent, and 46 billion optimized events, Kahuna is the proven solution for marketplaces of all sizes. Headquartered in Redwood City, CA, with global locations, Kahuna investors include Sequoia Capital, Tenaya Capital, and Uncork Capital. Learn more at http://www.kahuna.com

Kato

Series A in 2013
Kato is fixing the problem of business communication - enabling teams to communicate faster and more efficiently, reduce email overload and easily access their organizational knowledge. We're on a mission to make life a little better -- to make our jobs easier and more pleasurable, to help businesses work more efficiently, to improve how we communicate with each other. Kato brings the power of text, voice and video to team communication and intelligently manages information coming from other services, preventing data silos while reducing organizational noise. Companies large and small are more efficient and productive using Kato, both internally and with external partners, vendors and customers. Kato makes it possible to bypass the email blackhole and communicate with customers and partners in real-time. Organizations send less email and leverage knowledge better with Kato’s best-in-class search. We're built for business, with enterprise-grade security and administrative control. No hardware to maintain, software to update, or database to backup. It’s for distributed teams and remote workers, small businesses and large multi-nationals, and everything in between.

Handshake

Seed Round in 2012
Handshake Corp. is a B2B eCommerce platform that facilitates online and in-person trade for manufacturers and distributors across various industries, including music, gifts, toys, fashion, eyewear, healthcare, and outdoor sectors. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York, Handshake provides an online sales order application that supports mobile order writing, web order management, and back office integration. The platform enhances the buying and selling processes by allowing sales representatives and customers to place orders easily from any device, at any time. Additionally, it offers personalized experiences by incorporating updated account information, customer-specific pricing, order history, and tailored product catalogs, thereby strengthening relationships between suppliers and their clients. As of May 2019, Handshake operates as a subsidiary of Shopify Inc.

isocket

Series A in 2012
iSocket is a technology platform designed to streamline the buying and selling of fixed-price, premium, reserved advertising inventory. It offers two main services: iSocket For Publishers, which provides sales automation and programmatic direct tools to enhance the efficiency of publisher sales teams, and iSocket For Advertisers, which simplifies the process for agencies and brands to purchase guaranteed inventory directly from top publishers. By leveraging automation, iSocket minimizes errors and reduces the overhead costs associated with traditional media sales, thereby facilitating direct online advertising and enhancing the overall effectiveness of ad transactions.

Kahuna

Seed Round in 2012
Kahuna creates highly personalized experiences for every buyer and every seller for the world’s leading marketplaces. Kahuna is the platform of choice for meeting the needs of marketplaces, using state of the art machine-learning technology to drive extreme personalization, product and pricing optimization, trust, and engagement. With more than 144 million engaged users, over 4 billion messages sent, and 46 billion optimized events, Kahuna is the proven solution for marketplaces of all sizes. Headquartered in Redwood City, CA, with global locations, Kahuna investors include Sequoia Capital, Tenaya Capital, and Uncork Capital. Learn more at http://www.kahuna.com

isocket

Seed Round in 2011
iSocket is a technology platform designed to streamline the buying and selling of fixed-price, premium, reserved advertising inventory. It offers two main services: iSocket For Publishers, which provides sales automation and programmatic direct tools to enhance the efficiency of publisher sales teams, and iSocket For Advertisers, which simplifies the process for agencies and brands to purchase guaranteed inventory directly from top publishers. By leveraging automation, iSocket minimizes errors and reduces the overhead costs associated with traditional media sales, thereby facilitating direct online advertising and enhancing the overall effectiveness of ad transactions.

isocket

Seed Round in 2009
iSocket is a technology platform designed to streamline the buying and selling of fixed-price, premium, reserved advertising inventory. It offers two main services: iSocket For Publishers, which provides sales automation and programmatic direct tools to enhance the efficiency of publisher sales teams, and iSocket For Advertisers, which simplifies the process for agencies and brands to purchase guaranteed inventory directly from top publishers. By leveraging automation, iSocket minimizes errors and reduces the overhead costs associated with traditional media sales, thereby facilitating direct online advertising and enhancing the overall effectiveness of ad transactions.

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.
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