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Today, we're launching AI Vision. The first AI slop detector that exposes content as you scroll.

AI got great at reading documents. But reading was never the hard part. The hard part: turning extracted data into a running operation. Today we shipped Forge. It closes that gap. Describe your operation. Drop your data. Deploy. 🧵

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!

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Today, @trymirai is announcing a $10M seed round led by @uncorkcap , with participation from an incredible group of angels including @dps, @FrancoisChauba1, @marcinzukowski, @matiii , @gokulr, @scooterbraun @krishnanvijay , @benparr, @MattPRD, @adityajami and others. This funding accelerates our mission to make on-device AI inference accessible to every developer, turning what requires specialized systems teams today into something that integrates in a few lines of code. Every modern phone and laptop has AI silicon, but most developers can't access it. @trymirai removes that barrier. With this round, we're focusing on working with model makers to bring their models on-device across text, voice, and vision. As cloud inference costs become unsustainable for real-time workloads, on-device execution offers better economics, eliminating per-inference costs while improving latency. Models running on-device are becoming a new capability layer where developers can build system-level experiences independently. Inference becomes the programmable layer. We're building the infrastructure layer that enables that future. There's so much more to build, and we're just getting started. Excited to have Uncork Capital and this incredible group of investors and angels joining us on the journey. More on it at our blog: trymirai.com/blog/mirai-rai…

We raised $10M led by @uncorkcap to make on-device AI inference accessible to developers building on Apple Silicon. We're using the funds to expand model coverage across text, voice, and vision, working directly with model makers to bring their models on-device where latency, cost, and privacy favor local execution over cloud. Our proprietary inference engine is up to 37% faster than Apple's MLX with up to 59% faster prefill. Developers integrate it in a few lines of code without needing specialized systems expertise. The runtime supports hybrid deployments, routing inference between device and cloud seamlessly. Models running on-device are becoming a new capability layer where developers can build system-level experiences independently. We're building the infrastructure that enables that future. The round includes participation from an incredible group of angels including @dps @FrancoisChauba1 @marcinzukowski @matiii @gokulr @scooterbraun @krishnanvijay @benparr @MattPRD @adityajami and others. More on it at our blog trymirai.com/blog/mirai-rai…

I'm excited to announce @uncorkcap's investment in @DuckbillHQ, leading their $7.75M seed round. Over the last decade, Duckbill has become the go-to consultancy for the "nine figure club", i.e. the world's largest spenders on cloud infrastructure (including names like Delta Airlines, Ticketmaster, Epic Games, NewRelic, Washington Post). Co-founders @mikejulian and @QuinnyPig are now productizing their encyclopedic knowledge and strongly-held views into a platform for every business consumer of cloud infra (AWS, Azure, GCP), SaaS (Datadog, Snowflake), and AI tokens (Anthropic, OpenAI). Their contrarian pitch: the cloud cost management sector, commonly known in the industry as FinOps, is fixated on making bills smaller, when the real problem is that nobody can predict what the costs will be next month. Unsurprisingly (not), CFOs love predictability. For any seed investment I ask the following questions: is the market large, is the market growing, and do the founders have an unfair advantage. The answer for all of these is a resounding yes (Corey's legendary podcast, "This Week in AWS", provides reach and authority that any CMO will kill for.) Welcome Mike and Corey to the portfolio, and a big yay for another Uncork and @heavybit co-investment! 🚀 geekwire.com/2026/cloud-and…

We at @uncorkcap couldn't be more excited to share this news about a recent investment of ours: Inertia led by my old friend @jeffiel. medium.com/uncorkcapital/…

When I first led @Gamma's seed round in 2021, ChatGPT didn't exist. Waymo wasn't yet publicly available. Humans wrote the vast majority of code. Fast forward to late 2025 when I invested a second time with @uncorkcap, the world had transformed, and Gamma's progress massively accelerated ($0 ➡️ $100M!), but so many things remained the same.

@maiale @charliejliao @column Part 4 of interviewing early employees at rocketship companies 🚀 Had the joy of interviewing my friend Olivia Kusio, the 1st & founding product designer @GPTZeroAI — one of the breakout AI companies of the last two years (and an @uncorkcap portco!)

At a recent @uncorkcap Masterclass, @dps (ex-Stripe CTO, now co-founder of dev/agents) shared his thoughts on “engineercation”—leaders joining a team for a few days to learn 📚, connect 🤝, and inspire new ideas 💡 ▶️ Watch the clip:

We're excited to share that Ivo has raised $55M in Series B funding, led by Blackbird Ventures, with participation from Costanoa Ventures, Uncork Capital, Fika Ventures, GD1 (Global From Day One), and Icehouse Ventures. Since our last round, we've grown ARR by 500% and expanded Fortune 500 adoption by 250%. Our customers report saving up to 75% of the time they used to spend on manual contract review. In-house contracting teams are under more pressure than ever; they have more contracts to review with fewer resources. In addition, contracts contain a wealth of strategic business data that can help organizations assess risk and discover opportunity, but that data is often locked away, inaccessible to the people who need it the most. We built Ivo to solve both challenges faced by contracting teams: providing surgical accuracy in contract review and offering visibility into the strategic data inside agreements. We want to thank the teams at Uber, Shopify, Atlassian, Reddit, Inc., Canva, CDW, and hundreds of other organizations that trust us to transform how they work with contracts. Here’s to many more milestones together.

The split is coming: 👉 Companies embracing AI workflows 👉 Companies falling behind @uncorkcap Head of Talent @AdrianaMRoche explains why mindset > tools in our latest Masterclass:

Big congrats to @heyivoai on their $55M Series B. We backed @mkjung_ and team at seed for their focus and execution and they’ve really delivered. They're now powering contract review & intelligence for IBM, Uber, Shopify, Pinterest, and Atlassian. Proud to be along for the ride! Forbes coverage in the replies 👇

Big teams ≠ better teams. @dps (ex-Stripe CTO, now co-founder and CEO of dev/agents) explains to @uncorkcap why small, excellent teams win. 🎥 Clip:

Another year, another prediction piece! 5 trends I’m excited about in 2026: 🌓 Hybrid AI (LLMs + deterministic systems) becoming the default 🖼️ Multimodal AI getting operational 🛣️ Consolidation at the infrastructure layer (cont.)

AI made us faster at writing code. It didn't make us better at shipping it safely. New data from @LaunchDarkly: teams are more productive AND more cautious about pushing to production. The "AI Control Gap" is real 👇 launchdarkly.com/ai-control-gap/

Don’t fear small failures. Normalize them. That’s how organizations build resilience, innovation, and an AI-native mindset. 🎥 @AdrianaMRoche explains in our @uncorkcap AI in HR Masterclass: