Uncork Capital

Uncork Capital, established in 2004, is a venture capital firm headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with an additional office in San Francisco. The firm specializes in seed and early-stage investments, focusing on sectors such as SaaS, consumer services, technology, and healthcare. Uncork Capital manages two funds: a $100M Seed fund and a $100M Opportunity fund for larger investments in mature portfolio companies. The firm invests in companies across the United States and Canada, with a particular focus on Silicon Valley, New York, Boulder, Boston, and parts of Canada. Uncork Capital typically invests between $0.25 million and $5 million per portfolio, with an average investment of $4 million. The firm provides various value-added services to its portfolio companies, including product development, marketing, and business development strategies. Uncork Capital has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider, demonstrating its commitment to diversity and inclusion in its investment practices.

Jeff Clavier

Founder and Managing Partner

Sarah Du

Associate

Susan Liu

Partner

Past deals in Email

Stensul

Series C in 2023
Stensul is an innovative company focused on transforming email marketing for enterprise-level organizations. Its email generation platform is designed to streamline the email creation process by centralizing and pre-configuring templates to align with each brand's specific requirements. By eliminating the need for extensive collaboration with designers, developers, and quality assurance teams, Stensul allows marketers to concentrate on creating impactful content that drives results. The platform simplifies complex coding and design tasks, enabling marketing teams to produce mobile-responsive emails that adhere to brand, design, and legal standards. As a result, enterprises can efficiently generate effective emails while significantly reducing production time and costs.

Stensul

Series B in 2020
Stensul is an innovative company focused on transforming email marketing for enterprise-level organizations. Its email generation platform is designed to streamline the email creation process by centralizing and pre-configuring templates to align with each brand's specific requirements. By eliminating the need for extensive collaboration with designers, developers, and quality assurance teams, Stensul allows marketers to concentrate on creating impactful content that drives results. The platform simplifies complex coding and design tasks, enabling marketing teams to produce mobile-responsive emails that adhere to brand, design, and legal standards. As a result, enterprises can efficiently generate effective emails while significantly reducing production time and costs.

Stensul

Series A in 2018
Stensul is an innovative company focused on transforming email marketing for enterprise-level organizations. Its email generation platform is designed to streamline the email creation process by centralizing and pre-configuring templates to align with each brand's specific requirements. By eliminating the need for extensive collaboration with designers, developers, and quality assurance teams, Stensul allows marketers to concentrate on creating impactful content that drives results. The platform simplifies complex coding and design tasks, enabling marketing teams to produce mobile-responsive emails that adhere to brand, design, and legal standards. As a result, enterprises can efficiently generate effective emails while significantly reducing production time and costs.

Stensul

Seed Round in 2016
Stensul is an innovative company focused on transforming email marketing for enterprise-level organizations. Its email generation platform is designed to streamline the email creation process by centralizing and pre-configuring templates to align with each brand's specific requirements. By eliminating the need for extensive collaboration with designers, developers, and quality assurance teams, Stensul allows marketers to concentrate on creating impactful content that drives results. The platform simplifies complex coding and design tasks, enabling marketing teams to produce mobile-responsive emails that adhere to brand, design, and legal standards. As a result, enterprises can efficiently generate effective emails while significantly reducing production time and costs.

SendGrid

Series D in 2016
SendGrid, Inc. is a digital communication platform based in Denver, Colorado, that specializes in enabling businesses to engage with their customers through email. Founded in 2009, the company provides a cloud-based platform that offers a range of services tailored for developers and marketers. Its offerings include an email application programming interface (API) that allows developers to integrate email functionalities into their applications, as well as marketing campaign tools that enable marketers to manage customer contact lists, design email templates, and analyze campaign performance. Additionally, SendGrid provides expert services aimed at optimizing email delivery and ensuring effective communication. With its robust platform, SendGrid delivers over 30 billion emails monthly for a diverse clientele, including both tech-driven companies and traditional enterprises.

Kahuna

Series B in 2015
Kahuna, Inc. is a marketing automation software company based in Redwood City, California, founded in 2012. The company specializes in creating highly personalized experiences for both buyers and sellers within various marketplaces. Utilizing advanced machine-learning technology, Kahuna provides solutions for cross-channel marketing, optimization, and analytics, enabling clients to enhance engagement, product, and pricing strategies. Its notable clientele includes major brands such as The Dollar Shave Club, Yahoo, Yelp, Overstock.com, and Travelzoo. With a substantial user base of over 144 million engaged users and billions of messages and optimized events processed, Kahuna has established itself as a leading solution for marketplaces of all sizes.

Stitch

Seed Round in 2014
Stitch helps salespeople close more deals and be more responsive. They are building the best mobile-first, sales productivity platform. Their first product is a mobile email application for salespeople. With Stitch, salespeople can communicate faster by having the right information, insights, and tools at their fingertips. In today’s highly competitive world, they believe it’s not only possible, it’s essential, to be as effective and responsive on the go as when sitting in front of a desk. In sales, being responsive means delivering immediate and complete answers to prospects’ questions. They enable salespeople to respond NOW, not later, to every mobile email.

Kahuna

Series A in 2014
Kahuna, Inc. is a marketing automation software company based in Redwood City, California, founded in 2012. The company specializes in creating highly personalized experiences for both buyers and sellers within various marketplaces. Utilizing advanced machine-learning technology, Kahuna provides solutions for cross-channel marketing, optimization, and analytics, enabling clients to enhance engagement, product, and pricing strategies. Its notable clientele includes major brands such as The Dollar Shave Club, Yahoo, Yelp, Overstock.com, and Travelzoo. With a substantial user base of over 144 million engaged users and billions of messages and optimized events processed, Kahuna has established itself as a leading solution for marketplaces of all sizes.

Kahuna

Seed Round in 2013
Kahuna, Inc. is a marketing automation software company based in Redwood City, California, founded in 2012. The company specializes in creating highly personalized experiences for both buyers and sellers within various marketplaces. Utilizing advanced machine-learning technology, Kahuna provides solutions for cross-channel marketing, optimization, and analytics, enabling clients to enhance engagement, product, and pricing strategies. Its notable clientele includes major brands such as The Dollar Shave Club, Yahoo, Yelp, Overstock.com, and Travelzoo. With a substantial user base of over 144 million engaged users and billions of messages and optimized events processed, Kahuna has established itself as a leading solution for marketplaces of all sizes.

Nuzzel

Seed Round in 2012
Nuzzel, Inc. is a professional news discovery service founded in 2011 and based in San Francisco, California. The company operates an online platform that curates industrial news and media intelligence for professionals, offering its services through a website, mobile applications, messaging bots, and email newsletters. Nuzzel continuously scans thousands of news publications and tracks trending stories shared on social networks, enabling users to receive personalized and curated content. The platform is particularly popular among influencers in media, technology, and finance, and has received accolades from notable publications such as Google Play, the New York Times, Fast Company, and Time Magazine. Nuzzel operates as a subsidiary of Scroll.

Kahuna

Seed Round in 2012
Kahuna, Inc. is a marketing automation software company based in Redwood City, California, founded in 2012. The company specializes in creating highly personalized experiences for both buyers and sellers within various marketplaces. Utilizing advanced machine-learning technology, Kahuna provides solutions for cross-channel marketing, optimization, and analytics, enabling clients to enhance engagement, product, and pricing strategies. Its notable clientele includes major brands such as The Dollar Shave Club, Yahoo, Yelp, Overstock.com, and Travelzoo. With a substantial user base of over 144 million engaged users and billions of messages and optimized events processed, Kahuna has established itself as a leading solution for marketplaces of all sizes.

SendGrid

Series B in 2012
SendGrid, Inc. is a digital communication platform based in Denver, Colorado, that specializes in enabling businesses to engage with their customers through email. Founded in 2009, the company provides a cloud-based platform that offers a range of services tailored for developers and marketers. Its offerings include an email application programming interface (API) that allows developers to integrate email functionalities into their applications, as well as marketing campaign tools that enable marketers to manage customer contact lists, design email templates, and analyze campaign performance. Additionally, SendGrid provides expert services aimed at optimizing email delivery and ensuring effective communication. With its robust platform, SendGrid delivers over 30 billion emails monthly for a diverse clientele, including both tech-driven companies and traditional enterprises.

Rapleaf

Venture Round in 2011
Rapleaf, a division of TowerData, specializes in providing extensive data on U.S. email addresses, covering approximately 80% of the market. The company enables marketers to gain insights into their customer base and identify additional communication channels. By offering tools that facilitate the segmentation of subscribers, Rapleaf helps brands personalize their content, thereby enhancing customer engagement and satisfaction. Additionally, the company provides a meta-reputation system that allows users to compile and analyze consumer transaction reviews and ratings, further supporting businesses in understanding and improving their customer interactions.

SendGrid

Series A in 2010
SendGrid, Inc. is a digital communication platform based in Denver, Colorado, that specializes in enabling businesses to engage with their customers through email. Founded in 2009, the company provides a cloud-based platform that offers a range of services tailored for developers and marketers. Its offerings include an email application programming interface (API) that allows developers to integrate email functionalities into their applications, as well as marketing campaign tools that enable marketers to manage customer contact lists, design email templates, and analyze campaign performance. Additionally, SendGrid provides expert services aimed at optimizing email delivery and ensuring effective communication. With its robust platform, SendGrid delivers over 30 billion emails monthly for a diverse clientele, including both tech-driven companies and traditional enterprises.

SendGrid

Series A in 2009
SendGrid, Inc. is a digital communication platform based in Denver, Colorado, that specializes in enabling businesses to engage with their customers through email. Founded in 2009, the company provides a cloud-based platform that offers a range of services tailored for developers and marketers. Its offerings include an email application programming interface (API) that allows developers to integrate email functionalities into their applications, as well as marketing campaign tools that enable marketers to manage customer contact lists, design email templates, and analyze campaign performance. Additionally, SendGrid provides expert services aimed at optimizing email delivery and ensuring effective communication. With its robust platform, SendGrid delivers over 30 billion emails monthly for a diverse clientele, including both tech-driven companies and traditional enterprises.

Rapleaf

Series A in 2006
Rapleaf, a division of TowerData, specializes in providing extensive data on U.S. email addresses, covering approximately 80% of the market. The company enables marketers to gain insights into their customer base and identify additional communication channels. By offering tools that facilitate the segmentation of subscribers, Rapleaf helps brands personalize their content, thereby enhancing customer engagement and satisfaction. Additionally, the company provides a meta-reputation system that allows users to compile and analyze consumer transaction reviews and ratings, further supporting businesses in understanding and improving their customer interactions.
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