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Thrilled to share that @uncorkcap led @phinity_ai’s $5.2M seed round!
Phinity is building AI systems to design, verify and eventually tape out chips. In seven years in venture, I’ve never seen a ramp like this: $0 to eight figures in annualized run rate in under three months.
I first met @sonyashijin and @aadi_nash late last year, when Phinity was only a few months old and had no customers or revenue.
Rather than simply layering coding agents onto existing workflows, Phinity is training AI models to design chips themselves.
Since then, they've assembled an incredible team from NVIDIA, Intel, and frontier research labs. Phinity's agents have outperformed experienced hardware engineers on power, performance and area, even when those engineers were using frontier coding agents, and the system produces verified designs an order of magnitude faster.
If you're at a frontier lab or semiconductor company and want to dramatically shorten your chip design process, the Phinity team would love to chat. And if you want to work on one of the hardest technical problems out there, they're hiring!
More on why we invested: uncorkcapital.com/blog/reinv…
The Gamma team rebuilt their beloved presentation platform from the ground up.
Gamma 5 takes whatever you've got (an old PPT, a rough outline, a photo of a whiteboard, etc) and turns it into a fully editable presentation that actually feels like you. No other AI design platform gives you this much control over how to share your ideas. Congrats to the @GammaApp team on launch! ✨
Everyone is sick of generic AI, including us.
Gamma was the first AI presentation platform to reach real scale. But now that AI tools are everywhere, everything looks the same.
Earlier this summer, we came to an uncomfortable conclusion: without a step change in visual variety, Gamma’s output would look and feel too similar to all the other AI tools. The entire point of a presentation is to help someone "get" your idea, to see it as unique and do something with it.
We started over. Today we're shipping Gamma 5, the biggest product overhaul in our company's history.
We rebuilt Gamma to create presentations that actually look like you and your brand. Your teams can design anything they dream up, following your brand's aesthetic or something entirely new, with every frontier and image model under the hood. And the same goes for your docs, social assets, and graphics.
We revamped our agent, design tools, editing, import, export, connectors, and more.
Get your ideas out there.
Amy Saper retweeted
Big congrats to the @Numeral team on their Series C! Very proud to have backed them since the seed.
@SpamRoss and Matt are some of the most impressive founders I’ve ever met. They’ve gone after a huge, mission-critical market dominated by legacy incumbents and have become the dominant next-gen player in just a few years, with 3,500+ customers across 90+ countries.
Couldn’t be more excited to invest more in this round!
Numeral has raised a $100M Series C, led by Insight Partners with participation from Salesforce Ventures, Benchmark, Mayfield, Uncork, Y Combinator, FCVC, and Geodesic.
This brings our total funding to $157M.
@numeral solves U.S. sales tax, VAT, and GST compliance for 3,500+ global businesses, trusted by companies like Supabase, Eight Sleep, and Graza.
We’re building the future of tax -- where AI agents, human expertise, and global compliance come together in one system.
Since starting the business in 2023, we’ve grown quickly across our core e-commerce and software segments, while expanding into new industries including manufacturing, distribution, and wholesale.
There is a lot of work in front of us. Sales tax is more dynamic than ever, with states like California implementing new taxes on software and more states using AI for enforcement.
We are hiring across the org from engineering to product, sales, and marketing. And we’ve just opened our new office in NYC. If you are looking for what’s next, I’d love for you to take a peek at our careers page.
Excited for the year ahead. And humbled to be working with investors like @insightpartners, @rebeccaliudoyle, @SalesforceVC, @katiessschwartz, @ZKokosa, @MayfieldFund, @SPangulur, @benchmark, @chetanp, @ycombinator, @gustaf, @uncorkcap, @susanwliu, @GeodesicCap, @arvindayyala, @FundersClub, @mittal, @mantisVC, @AlexPallNY, @ShaanVP, @lennysan, @moizali, @ringmybeller, @khency6, @asturnerr, @maariabajwa and so many others.
Amy Saper retweeted
San Franciscans! Dreamforce starts tomorrow so here are my top 5 tips for dealing with the madness:
1. Go to NYC for the week
Last week I got to bring together a group of PMs from OpenAI, Anthropic, Glean, Perplexity, MSL, Sierra, Databricks, Stripe and more. We talked about where AI has changed their day to day roles most dramatically, where it's removed a dependency, and where they still feel blocked.
Given how different these companies are (size, customer, layer of the AI stack), I was struck by how similar the answers were. A lot of work that used to require another person/team has become self-serve: prototyping small features instead of writing PRDs, analyzing data instead of filing requests with data scientists, asking an agent who owns what instead of scheduling a million 1:1s.
The product development bottlenecks haven't disappeared, they've shifted. More AI-written code = more PRs someone still has to review. Regulatory timelines haven't sped up. Humans still need to align around strategy. One PM described the magic of spinning up 10 agent sessions at once, only to realize SHE had become the bottleneck.
AI is collapsing the time it takes to execute. Human judgment is becoming the scarce resource.
Sent this announcement to Instinct and asked it what it can do that ChatGPT Work can’t, then shared its answer with ChatGPT Work.
Seems like the underlying functionality is v similar. The biggest differences are the primary interface and how much persistent monitoring happens by default.
Will keep trying both for now. May the best bot win! 😜🤺
ChatGPT Work can now use its computer and browser to sign in to websites on web and mobile, without ChatGPT ever seeing your username or password.
That means you can ask it to:
• Set up utilities for a new apartment
• Book a DMV or passport appointment
• Check reimbursement costs through your insurance
• Find and book an in-network doctor around your availability
• Check when your car registration expires and prepare the renewal paperwork
• Compare your rental insurance policy with an issue you’re emailing your landlord about
• Find and save apartment listings that match your criteria
• Restock something just by uploading a photo
• Schedule a package pickup for a return
• Cancel tickets for a rescheduled trip
• Book a vet appointment
• Submit reimbursement paperwork for medical treatments
• Check resale sites for new drops and save things you might like
• Find candidates with specific experience and draft outreach
• Take invoices from your email and submit them to your accounting software
• Draft replies to rental property inquiries
• Fill out permit applications for your small business
• Add action items to a vendor portal based on a recent client call
• Analyze the latest ad campaign for your small business
Forward deployed Claire! 🪄
I am having the most fun of my life building with AI, and I think every company should, too
so i'm starting something new: cxo.dev
AI transformation consulting for AI-pilled leaders
(by builders, not consultants)
why I had to do it 👇
Amy Saper retweeted
@amperoshealth raises a $16M Series A led by Bessemer. Excited to see the team hit this milestone!
I sat down with @mmiernowski to talk about his journey, customer relationships, and knowing when it was time to raise the A.
Watch/listen: youtube.com/watch?v=o7sCo851…
Amy Saper retweeted
Today, Gamma is featured on @Forbes AI50 list of the most promising AI companies in the world.
We're honored to be a part of the 20 newcomers on this list and proud of all the work our team has done to get us here.
Read more at the link in thread.
Get your ideas out there.
New look for the @uncorkcap website! Same mission, same team, now with fresh paint. We invest before it’s obvious.⤵️
Venture firms rebrand for all kinds of reasons. Sometimes it's genuine evolution - the identity finally catches up with who the firm has become. Sometimes it's camouflage - a way of looking like a different kind of firm than the one the last few years revealed. And sometimes it's just that the old website was embarrassing and someone finally had enough.
Ours is mostly the first, none of the second, and just a touch of the last :)
Today we're launching a new brand and a redesigned website. The logo is refreshed. The palette is cleaner. The typography is sharper. And the site actually reflects how we think in 2026.
Read more: uncorkcapital.com/blog/a-new…
Amy Saper retweeted
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 @dimashvets, 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!
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-rais…
