I just used the new version of Microsoft Teams and ... I didn't hate it 🫣

Big in Japan! 🇯🇵🔥

Congratulations to our portfolio company Human Interest on raising $267M in fresh financing led by Marshall Wace and Baillie Gifford. Uncork led their seed in 2015 (back when they were called Captain401 🤓) and have participated in each subsequent round 🚀

The degree of self-interested and short-term thinking displayed by people in our industry over the last few days is absolutely stunning.

Struggle Street for all the real finance people needing to use OG Excel today

Our portfolio co Lunar.dev has just released the first-ever API Consumption Management Report, featuring insights from over 200 companies. This comprehensive analysis offers invaluable data on the current trends and challenges in API consumption. Check it out:

Exciting news: Gartner has recognized Uncork portfolio company Torii as a Leader in SaaS Management Platforms in the industry’s first-ever Magic Quadrant! 💪 toriihq.com/info/gartner-m…

Non-AI people who work in tech: next time you get asked what “GPT” stands for you can let them know (with confidence due to photo evidence) that it’s “Garlic, Parmesan, Truffle”. You’re welcome.

“Not everybody sees it yet, but they will. And when they do, they’re going to be able to invent things we could never imagine in the old centralized world” Absolute banger of a post by apenwarr of Tailscale tailscale.com/blog/new-inter…

One of my favorite lectures I gave in Stanford's Entrepreneurial Leadership class (w/ Tina Seelig) was on crafting your startup's mission, vision, and values. I shared some thoughts on why this matters, reflecting on my time at Twitter, Uber, and Stripe: medium.com/@amys/mission-…

New endorsements just dropped 🖐️📷 Our slate for Board of Supervisors has NO INCUMBENTS! It's time for change. D1: Marjan Philhour D3: Danny Sauter D5: Bilal Mahmood D7: Matt Boschetto D9: Trevor Chandler D11: Michael Lai growsf.org/voter-guide/

Learning to code just became 10x easier! Enki just launched an AI coding coach experience that just… works. Think “Superhuman for learning to code” 🧵 enki.com

Ranked choice voting is a little confusing but the best way to ensure SF continues to move forward is to follow GrowSF’s advice and in November vote for all three moderate candidates (in the order that makes most sense for you) 🌁

I couldn’t be more excited by the recent progress of Loft Orbital: just a few days ago, another successful mission launch with YAM-7 x.com/loftorbital/st… and now the announcement of our first big JV. 🚀🚀🚀

Happy Oasis Day to all who celebrate

I realize that everyone (including me) is losing their minds about the Oasis reunion but I’m just as excited to see Pulp in SF in a couple of weeks!

Our portfolio co Common Paper just released the standard Software License Agreement. If your product is deployed in your customers’ cloud, this is the not-so-secret weapon to help you CLOSE DEALS FASTER 📈 commonpaper.com/standards/soft…

As previewed, read more on why we invested in c/side (c/side) here: medium.com/uncorkcapital/…