Jean-Francois Clavier Overview
- Investor Type
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Angel
- Status
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Active
- Professionals
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1

- Investments
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65
- Portfolio
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11
- Exits
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56

Jean-Francois Clavier General Information
Description
Mr. Jean-Francois Clavier is the Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Uncork Capital. He serves as Board Member at Loft Orbital, Messari, and Arch Systems. An early angel investor in Web 2.0, Mr. Clavier and his team have backed 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. The portfolio has also seen acquisitions by Groupon, Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo, and AOL. Born, raised, and educated in France, Jeff graduated with an MS in CS. He joined Effix, a fintech startup, as one of the initial developers while still at school and eventually led it as CTO. After 5 years, Reuters acquired the company and Jeff expanded his remit to several product and development organizations in Europe and the USA. In 2000, he moved to Silicon Valley as General Partner for RVC, the $450M venture fund of Reuters. Jeff was appointed on the board of the National Venture Capital Association in 2015, a 4-year mandate. In the Uncork portfolio, he sits on the boards of Arch Systems, DocSend, Intermix, Pi Charging, Scroll, and other stealth companies. He is a veteran of the Forbes Midas List of top venture capitalists in the world. One of the early VC bloggers in 2004, Jeff is now a popular conference speaker and social media/TV commentator.
Contact Information
- San Francisco, CA
- United States
Jean-Francois Clavier Investments (65)
Company Name | Deal Date | Deal Type | Deal Size | Industry | Company Stage | Lead Partner |
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TipTop (Financial Software) | 09-May-2022 | Early Stage VC | 0000 | Financial Software | Stealth | 0000-00000000 0000000 |
0000000000 | 30-Mar-2021 | 00000 00000 | 0000 | Enterprise Systems (Healthcare) | Generating Revenue | 0000-00000000 0000000 |
000000000 | 25-Mar-2021 | 00000 00000 | 0000 | Other Services (B2C Non-Financial) | Generating Revenue | 0000-00000000 0000000 |
0000000 | 24-Aug-2018 | 00000 00000 | 0000 | Business/Productivity Software | Generating Revenue | 0000-00000000 0000000 |
000000 (0000000000 | 26-Jul-2018 | 00000 00000 | 0000 | Business/Productivity Software | Generating Revenue | 0000-00000000 0000000 |
00000000 | 24-May-2016 | 0000 00000 | 00.000 | Electronics (B2C) | Generating Revenue | 0000-00000000 0000000 |
00000 | 08-Feb-2016 | 00000 00000 | 0000 | Human Capital Services | Generating Revenue | 0000-00000000 0000000 |
000000000 | 06-May-2015 | 00000 00000 | 000.00 | Business/Productivity Software | Generating Revenue | 0000-00000000 0000000 |
Teads | 13-Jan-2015 | Early Stage VC | 000.00 | Media and Information Services (B2B) | Profitable | 0000-00000000 0000000 |
Delighted | 07-Oct-2014 | Early Stage VC | Business/Productivity Software | Generating Revenue | 0000-00000000 0000000 |
Jean-Francois Clavier Exits (56)
Company Name | Exit Date | Exit Type | Exit Size |
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Molekule | 12-Jan-2023 | Merger/Acquisition | |
000000000 | 25-Jul-2022 | 0000000000 | |
000000000000 | 02-Jun-2022 | 000000000000000000 | |
000000000 | 12-Dec-2021 | 000 00 00000000 | |
000000 | 01-Oct-2021 | 0000000000 | 00000 |
000000 (0000000000 | 01-Mar-2021 | 000000000 00000000 | |
00000 | 23-Nov-2020 | 000000000000000000 | |
00000 | 25-Feb-2020 | 000000000000000000 | |
Kahuna | 01-Jun-2019 | Out of Business | |
Nuzzel | 07-Feb-2019 | Merger/Acquisition |
Jean-Francois Clavier Investments by Industry, Year, and Region
Jean-Francois Clavier Team (1)
Name | Title | Deals | Funds | Boards | Office |
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Jean-Francois Clavier | Angel Investor | 000 | 0 | 0 | San Francisco, CA |
Jean-Francois Clavier Co-Investors (40)
Name | With | Exits | Lead Partner | Series | Industry |
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Andreessen Horowitz | 1 | 0 |
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Jason Calacanis | 0 | 0 |
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Sam Altman | 0 | 0 |
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Scott Banister | 0 | 0 |
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Travis Kalanick | 0 | 0 |
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