Andy Mcloughlin
Managing Partner at Uncork Capital. Investing in seed
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Partner
2021 - Current
Seed-stage investor at Uncork Capital (formerly known as SoftTech VC) focusing on B2B software opportunities (SaaS, industry solutions, developer tools, software infrastructure, B2B fintech). My investments include LaunchDarkly, Human Interest, Coder, Crossbeam, Focal Systems, Torii, Fountain, Mutiny, Tailscale, Bem, and a number of companies still in stealth.
Partner
2015 - 2021
Uncork Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm that focuses on SaaS, consumer, marketplaces, hardware, and new technology startups.
Fellow - Class 22
2017
The Kauffman Fellows Program is designed to develop a world-wide network of innovation investors who provide smart, connected capital to fuel entrepreneurial change. While working full-time at an investment organization, Fellows receive a structured curriculum with an individual development plan, executive coaching, facilitated mentoring, and peer learning and networking – all with a focus on giving back and on one’s responsibility as an emerging leader in the venture capital industry.
Co-investment VC firm supporting the mission of the Kauffman Fellows
Co-founder, Trustee & Board Member
2014
Catalysing tomorrow's philanthropists today. Through the Founders Pledge, entrepreneurs commit to donating a small percentage of their personal proceeds to a social cause of their choice, following an exit.
Seed Investor
2023
Bem transforms unstructured data—emails, PDFs, and more—into the format you need, effortlessly. Simply use their API to specify your desired data shape/schema and start sending email conversations, PDFs, scans, spreadsheets, JSON, and more.
Engineering teams use bem to transform any data point into whatever schema they need. Never build an integration again.
Raised $3,700,000.00 from Garry Tan, Roar Ventures, Andrew Berberick, Kevin Mahaffey and Uncork Capital.
Investor, Board Member
2023
No more breaking production. More API traffic control. Lunar.dev offers a full management suite to monitor and optimize usage of any 3rd-Party API.
Seed Investor
2022
Create is an AI-powered platform that helps ambitious founders, teams, and companies launch new software products faster.
Turn anyone on your team into a developer. Create lets you build in code using plaintext and images.
Investor, Board Member
2022
Stark is a tool uses by the designers and developers for software products to be accessible and compliant.
Raised $8,000,000.00 from Jason Warner, Micha Hernandez van Leuffen, Paul Veugen, Justin Overdorff, focal, Basecamp Fund, Holly Habstritt, Uncork Capital, Indicator Ventures and Kleiner Perkins.
Investor, Board Observer
2021
Sperta helps financial services and tech companies automate decisions and manage fraud, credit, and compliance risks.
Sperta provides a risk decision platform for financial services and digital commerce.
Raised $3,000,000.00 from Uncork Capital and Kindred Ventures.
Investor, Board Observer
2021
Common Paper is the structured contract platform that helps you close faster by building, negotiating, and signing contracts that both sides can make sense of.
Common Paper develops contract collaboration software to improve the process of commercial contracting.
Raised $5,000,000.00 from Y Combinator.
Investor, Board Observer
2021
World's First Integrated Quoting & Billing Platform built for the Modern SaaS Enterprise.
MonetizeNow is the World's First Unified CPQ, Billing and Usage Platform Built For B2B SaaS
Raised $3,000,000.00 from GTMfund, Two Sigma and Uncork Capital.
Education
BA (hons)
1997 - 2000