Uncork Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Palo Alto, United States

Total investments

432

Average round size

12M

Portfolio companies

229

Rounds per year

21.60

Lead investments

30

Follow on index

0.47

Exits

93

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileArtificial IntelligenceSaaSAppsEnterprise Software

Summary

In 2004 was created Uncork Capital, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Palo Alto.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Uncork Capital, startups are often financed by iNovia Capital, FundersClub, Zelkova Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Reid Hoffman, Mayfield Fund, Industry Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by GV, Founders Fund, SV Angel.

The fund was created by Jeff Clavier. Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 7 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The typical startup value when the investment from Uncork Capital is 100-500 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2015. The top activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 13-24 deals per year. Comparing to the other companies, this Uncork Capital performs on 2 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight SendGrid, Postmates, Eventbrite. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Advertising, E-Commerce. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
EcommerceConsumer/RetailHardwareDeveloper ToolsCloud/Infrastructure Show 1 more
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
1M — 4M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 400000000
Fund raised date
2023-07-27

Analytics

Total investments
432
Lead investments
30
Exits
93
Rounds per year
21.60
Follow on index
0.47
Investments by industry
  • Software (142)
  • SaaS (80)
  • Enterprise Software (56)
  • Internet (51)
  • Analytics (50)
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Investments by region
  • United States (393)
  • Canada (21)
  • Israel (4)
  • United Kingdom (1)
  • France (1)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
9
Number of Decacorns
9
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
110M
Group Appearance index
0.95
Avg. company exit year
5
Avg. multiplicator
3.25
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Bezi 15 Nov 2023 Software, Collaboration, 3D Technology, Product Design Early Stage Venture 13M United States, California, San Francisco
GPTZero 13 Jun 2024 Software, Artificial Intelligence Early Stage Venture 10M
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