🎉 We're doubling down on the seed stage with $300M of new capital to back the next wave of generational founders! Since @uncorkcap was founded 21 years ago today, we’ve backed 278 companies—from Postmates to Poshmark, LaunchDarkly to Tailscale. medium.com/uncorkcapital/unc…

No place in the world that can compare 💙🧡🫶🗽

@amperoshealth raises a $16M Series A led by Bessemer. Excited to see the team hit this milestone! I sat down with @mmiernowski to talk about his journey, customer relationships, and knowing when it was time to raise the A. Watch/listen: youtube.com/watch?v=o7sCo851…

Today, Gamma is featured on @Forbes AI50 list of the most promising AI companies in the world. We're honored to be a part of the 20 newcomers on this list and proud of all the work our team has done to get us here. Read more at the link in thread. Get your ideas out there.

New look for the @uncorkcap website! Same mission, same team, now with fresh paint. We invest before it’s obvious.⤵️

This is my #1 piece of comms advice for startup founders.

Can confirm 😅

Delighted to announce @uncorkcap's investment in Mirai (@trymirai), the platform to make on-device inference seamless, fast and multi-platform (Apple silicon today, Android soon). Mirai’s co-founders, @Darkolorin and @dmitrshvets, independently built Reface and Prisma: early on-device AI products used monthly by hundreds of millions of people globally 🚀 Read more about why we're excited - link in comments!

"Today, Claude Code’s run-rate revenue has grown to over $2.5 billion; this figure has more than doubled since the beginning of 2026." Absolutely insane growth. Doubled revenue since the beginning of 2026?! Today is (*checks notes*)...Feb 12th 🤯

Excited to share that @uncorkcap is leading the seed round in Buildcheck.ai! Construction is a $12 trillion industry, yet design reviews are still manual and inefficient. Buildcheck's computer vision models and collaboration features drastically improve the experience. medium.com/uncorkcapital/imp…

How to Pick the Companies Worth Working For When I think about the companies I’ve joined, the pattern isn’t complicated. I picked based on the people. The founders and the early team mattered more than anything else. I wanted to work with people whose judgment I trusted and whose ambitions made sense to me. If I was going to pour years into something, I wanted to do it with people I hoped would win. I also paid attention to how fast they learned. Building a company forces you to move from one stage to the next with little warning. The founders I bet on treated that as normal. They read constantly, asked questions, tried things, and didn’t get stuck defending an old idea. I’ve always been pulled toward intensity plus intelligence. It shows up in how someone talks about their work, what they notice, and how they use their time. Judging the product early never helped me much. Many of the companies I joined were building tools for developers or for teams, and I wasn’t the target user. Early versions felt rough or unfinished. So I stopped trying to size a company by its v1. The product can change a lot; the people usually don’t. Thanks to @tmrohan & @lennysan for putting this together!

I have a guest essay in @nytimes today about autonomous vehicle safety. I wrote it because I’m tired of seeing children die. Done right, we can eliminate car crashes as a leading cause of death in the United States @Waymo recently released data covering nearly 100 million driverless miles. I spent weeks analyzing it because the results seemed too good to be true. 91% fewer serious-injury crashes. 92% less pedestrians hit. 96% fewer injury crashes at intersections. The list goes on. 39,000 Americans died in crashes last year. More than homicide, plane crashes, and natural disasters combined. The #2 killer of children and young adults. The #1 cause of spinal cord injury. We’ve accepted this as the price of mobility. We don’t have to. In medicine, when a treatment shows this level of benefit, we stop the trial early. Continuing to give patients the placebo becomes unethical. When an intervention works this clearly, you change what you do. In driving, we’re all the control group. Cities like DC and Boston are blocking deployment. And cities are not the only forces mobilizing to slow this progress. It’s time we stop treating this like a tech moonshot and start treating it like a public health intervention that will save lives. Link to article below. 👀 this video of Waymo cars evading crashes with people and vehicles. I especially note the ones that require it having a 360° view. My sincere thanks to Alex Ellerbeck and @acsifferlin for their wisdom and sure hand in editing this piece.

This is so emblematic of what makes Stripe unlike any other company: the unbelievable attention to detail and deep user empathy is just 🪄✨👌

Just this morning a founder asked me how @GammaApp got their first few users and then scaled to 70M . @thisisgrantlee lays out all the secret sauce to Gamma's growth in this great convo with @lennysan, check it out!

I would have killed for this at Stripe!🤩 Custom themes, centralized billing, data privacy, it's all built into Gamma for Teams. Check it out and lmk what you think! 💫

Advice that sounds okay on the surface but might cost you your company: 1. “Raise as much as you can, hire quickly, and worry about profitability later” My advice: raise little, stay lean, fund with profits. If you do raise, be thoughtful and choose the right partners.