General Info
Mr. Jean-Francois Clavier, the Founder and Managing Partner at Uncork Capital, is an early angel investor in Web 2.0. He has supported successful startups like Mint (Intuit), Kongregate (GameStop), Brightroll (Yahoo), LiveRamp (Acxiom), Milo (eBay), Wildfire (Google), Bleacher Report (Turner), Gnip (Twitter), Fitbit (NYSE: FIT), Eventbrite, Sendgrid, Poshmark, Hired, and Vungle. Mr. Clavier’s investment thesis focuses on mobile/cloud SaaS, consumer services, connected hardware, marketplaces, and healthcare IT. He has a track record of acquisitions by Groupon, Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo, and AOL. With a background in computer science and fintech, he moved to Silicon Valley as a General Partner for RVC before starting Uncork Capital. Mr. Clavier’s partnership style involves active board memberships in companies like Loft Orbital, Messari, DroneDeploy, and Arch Systems. He is recognized in the Forbes Midas List and is known for his conference speaking engagements and social media presence.
Location: San Francisco, CA
Country: France
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Investment Regions: EU, NA
Investment Stages: pre-seed, seed
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🤖 AI Activity Report
Status: very-active
AI Reasoning: Search results show Uncork Capital activity in 2025 including Loft Orbital Series C (Jan 2025) and Uncork raising funds May 2025; Jeff (Jean-Francois) Clavier is named as Founder/Managing Partner and board member of Loft Orbital. Loft Orbital had financing in Jan 2025 indicating recent investment involvement (Loft Orbital). The last known investment activity is within 6 months, so classify as very-active.
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