Amy Saper
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Partner @Uncorkcap, travel addict, karaoke junkie. Past life: @Accel, @Stripe, @Twitter, @Stanford.
San Francisco, CA
Joined March 2009
š 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, weāve backed 278 companiesāfrom Postmates to Poshmark, LaunchDarkly to Tailscale.
medium.com
Uncork Capital has raised $300 million in new funds: Uncork VIII, a $225 million seed fund, and Uncork Plus IV, a $75 million growth fund.
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Really important read for founders about the perils of raising too much venture (or debt). Itās yet another reason I always preach that revenue per employee is a more brag-worthy metric than $$ raised. ā¤µļø.
When I founded Divvy, I focused on building, our mission, & surviving. Like most early founders, I rarely thought about exit economics. Here's what I call 'acquisition math' - headline price vs equity value, pref stacks & what it means for founders.
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"What do 'dev tools' even mean when the builder is often not a developer at all, but an AI responding to a natural-language prompt? In this new paradigm, the best ādevelopment environmentā might be a chat box and a brain full of ideas." (@shaynesweeney).
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RT @BloombergTV: "We're trying to back the founders that are building the companies that are really going to define this next decade," saysā¦.
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Such a treat having @dps spend time with our founders in the @Uncorkcap office!. "You want to find people who raise the bar, not just meet it. Hiring people who can teach you something every day ā thatās the goal.ā.
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This relentless pace of execution for a company of Stripe's size is truly unprecedented. So proud of my many friends and former colleagues @stripe š.
The @stripe product keynote just finished!. We announced a lot of new stuff. (We actually couldn't fit everything into the keynote.) Some highlights:. ā¢ We've built and deployed the first general-purpose Payments Foundation Model. Trained on tens of billions of transactions and.
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Grateful for fresh capital to do what I love alongside our fearless leader @bandrew, our founder and OG seed investor @jeff, and my incredible fellow GPs @thistrippjones and @susanwliu. Thank you to our founders and LPs for believing in us - fired up about whatās to come. š.
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I'm personally excited about founders building AI-native apps for eng/product/design teams, and the API layer underneath. In this era of tiny teams leveraging AI tools for massive early growth and profitability, thereās never been a better time to focus on the seed stage.
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This part in particular stood out (most AI apps should not start with blank text boxes!)
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Have been thinking about UX implications in the new era of AI-native apps and why so many incumbents have dropped the ball. Love this essay by @koomen that describes this far more eloquently than I've been able to (thx @dps for sharing it w/ me):
koomen.dev
An essay about bad AI app design
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RT @thisisgrantlee: Gamma's first AI launch was exactly 2 years ago. We were pre-revenue - just a small team crammed in a 2-bedroom apartmeā¦.
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Tailscale is a truly special company. Excited for us to deepen our relationship with them, alongside @amitku and all my friends @Accel!.
Congratulations to our portfolio company @Tailscale on their Series C, led by our deep conviction partners at @Accel!
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Editing a blog post I'm working on, and even though it's been (quite) a few years since I was writing blog posts for @stripe, I still imagine @collision adding a comment that just says "Sentence case!!!" to my title and sub headers and smile š #sentencecaseforever.
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RT @susanwliu: š Huge congrats to @SpamRoss and the rest of the @NumeralTax team on their Series A, led by Benchmark!. Numeral is tacklingā¦.
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Stripe annual letter in audio form for your next commute listen ā¬ļø. (@elevenlabsio is eerily good, this sounds exactly like @collision! š¤Æ).
@taylor_jrj2012 @jsfranklin221 @stripe I asked @collision really nicely. Well, not exactly; I asked @elevenlabsio, but similar result.
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Fantastic piece by @eringriffith, highlighting how @MeetGamma, @cursor_ai and other AI applications are achieving massive scale with small, efficient teams. Truly believe this is the future, and why I'm thrilled to be a seed investor š @uncorkcap
nytimes.com
Tech start-ups typically raised huge sums to hire armies of workers and grow fast. Now artificial intelligence tools are making workers more productive and spurring tales of ātiny teamā success.
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