They are not, perhaps, reason enough to uncork the champagne.
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The value you could uncork there would be absolutely tremendous.
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It's been far too long since we saw Guerrero uncork one.
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Spring is ánoixi , from the verb ανοίγω, "open, uncork"—the year opens.
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Those who uncork the proverbial genie cannot control its future by decree.
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Why did you feel like you couldn't uncork that character in rehearsals?
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Partner, Uncork Capital (fka SoftTech VC) Andy is a Partner with Uncork Capital (fka SoftTech VC), one of Silicon Valley's most active seed-stage venture capital firms where he primarily invests in SaaS, vertical industry solutions, and developer tools.
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It was like trying to uncork a bottle of wine from the inside.
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In Conversation with Thomas Korte (AngelPad), Andy McLoughlin (Uncork Capital) and Timo Rein (Pipedrive)
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When a storm approaches, do you batten down the hatches or uncork the bottles?
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The best wine openers uncork a bottle quickly and easily without breaking the cork.
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Learn tips and tricks on fund raising from Uncork Capital's managing partner, Jeff Clavier.
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Pear, Uncork Capital, SV Angel, Cota Capital and Trucks VC are seed investors in Quadric.io.
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We see Curry, apparently a bit confused, wind up and uncork the perfect baseball pitch.
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Still, those hoping for a Madame Présidente come May should not uncork the champagne just yet.
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There's simply no reason to uncork a hard-partisan speech during a Hollywood awards ceremony. None.
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The Air Algérie crew waited to uncork the champagne until the flight had left Iranian airspace.
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Now, Gastelum is light on his feet, feinting retreats and coming in to uncork his hands.
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The round also includes new investor Lockheed Martin and existing investors Lux Capital and Uncork Capital.
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RuPaul's Drag Race Every writer has their little tricks to uncork themselves when they're feeling stuck.
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Existing investors Foundry Group, Crosslink Capital, Uncork Capital and TransLink Capital also participated in the financing.
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Now settle by the bonfire, uncork your Estus, and hear a tale of woe and wonder.
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You uncork that special bottle of wine you've been saving, and park yourself in front of Netflix.
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Postmates is backed by Tiger Global, BlackRock, Spark Capital, Uncork Capital, Founders Fund, Slow Ventures and others.
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And our guest, the excellent Andy McLoughlin, a partner at UnCork Capital, was in the studio, as well.
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The company announced Monday it raised $3.2 million in a recent seed funding round led by Uncork Capital.
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Then set the table, uncork the wine and enjoy a not-perfectly-seasonal dinner while dreaming about spring.
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It's something to uncork while waiting for the Gombaude-Guillot wines, which do take some time to mature.
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Ahead, the buzz-worthy fragrances you're going to want to uncork, and the vinos that make the perfect pairing.
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor is just like us on the weekends -- ready to unwind ... and, more importantly, ready to uncork.
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Meet Huckleberry, whose Series A was led by Tribe Capital, with participation from Amaranthine, Crosslink Capital and Uncork Capital.
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Some of its other investments over the years have included Forerunner Ventures, Uncork Capital, Bolt, Notation Capital and IA Ventures.
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He's guessing that some wine drinkers may be putting aside their political preferences to uncork a bottle from Trump Winery.
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Uncork is based in San Francisco, where it sometimes houses its newest portfolio companies for six months to a year.
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But mindful that he might be accused of offering an alcoholic beverage to underage students, he did not uncork it.
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Past judges have included Jeff Clavier (Uncork Capital), Eileen Burbidge (Passion Capital), Sonali De Rycker (Accel) and Roelof Botha (Sequoia Capital).
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If you want more control of what you want to uncork, you can pick your own bottles from their vast collection.
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The round includes Lockheed Martin as a strategic investor, along with existing investors, Lux Capital, Uncork Capital, Cendana and Golden Seeds.
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We're also excited to announce our VC firm partners for the event: August Capital, Battery Ventures, Data Collective, and Uncork Capital.
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This week we assembled the full crew — Matthew Lynley, Katie Roof and Alex Wilhelm — along with Stephanie Palmeri from Uncork Capital.
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Jeff Clavier is managing partner and founder at Uncork Capital, with portfolio companies that include Eventbrite, SendGrid, Fitbit, Vungle and Mint.com.
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A big shout out to our sponsors Calgary, Uncork Capital, Brex, Galvanize and Snap Fiesta for helping us throw this bash.
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Founded in 2011, Postmates is also backed by Spark Capital, Founders Fund, Uncork Capital, Slow Ventures, Tiger Global, Blackrock and others.
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It's also the chance to converse with some of the community's major movers and shakers — including investors and partners from Uncork Capital .
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Round up some of your buddies, uncork a few bottles of wine, and prepare to get nostalgic over the good old days.
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Occasionally he and I would eat lunch in the basement and I would watch him uncork a wine bottle from his stash.
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Did he uncork himself so liberally amid the exuberance of suddenly having the Prime Minister's ear and some leverage over her actions?
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Here are two good ones to uncork — preferably on another football outsider in order to illustrate the difference between you and them.
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Mr. Johnson maintains that Brexit would uncork a flood of pent-up investment, though government forecasts indicate that it will reduce growth.
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Founded in 2012, San Francisco-based Hired is backed by venture capital firms including Comcast Ventures, Sherpa Capital, Lumia Ventures and Uncork Capital.
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As Marciano's face began to stream blood, Charles' body shots disappeared and he began to uncork with power against Marciano's eyes and nose.
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Postmates, founded in 2011 by Bastian Lehmann, is backed by Spark Capital, Founders Fund, Uncork Capital, Slow Ventures, Tiger Global, Blackrock and others.
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Miocic kept his back foot along the Octagon wall and stepped in to uncork right hands when he felt the time was right.
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"The challenge is there's too much money at all stages," said Jeff Clavier, founder and managing partner of the venture firm Uncork Capital.
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In total, Postmates has raised $681 million in venture capital funding from investors, including Spark Capital, Founders Fund, Uncork Capital and Slow Ventures.
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Prior to joining Uncork Capital, Andy was co-founder of London-headquartered Huddle, an enterprise SaaS collaboration platform that was acquired in 2017.
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When a fierce mistral wind blows, it's time to crank out beef stews and roasted meats, and to uncork that Châteauneuf-du-Pape.
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Kennedy's ability to uncork all this cockamamie and turn it into an artful, and quite dear, breeze of a tale is a delight.
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Rezaei said that shortly after demo day, the startup raised $3 million in funding from Cowboy Ventures, Uncork Capital and various angel investors.
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Your hotel is very likely to let you enjoy it in their lobby and even uncork it for you for a small fee.
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He moved on to SoftTech VC (now Uncork Capital), where he spent eight years working on seed-stage investments in the consumer internet space.
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Collectively asserting our value before we 'uncork' could hold the key to reducing this shameful disparity once and for all — and we're worth it.
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Were these songs you'd been working on for the last 20 years or did you just uncork a bottle and it all came out?
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This week we recorded as a trio: Connie Loizos holding down the studio with our guest, the ever-present Jeff Clavier of Uncork Capital.
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Today, we'll be hearing from industry leaders like Moia CEO Ole Harms, Slack CTO Cal Henderson, AngelPad's Thomas Korte and Uncork Capital's Andy McLoughlin.
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The startup's investors include Uncork Capital, Founders Fund, Y Combinator, Liquid 2 Ventures, Webb Investment Network, iRobot Ventures, Presence Capital, Into Ventures and others.
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Front serves more than 5,000 companies and has raised $79 million in venture funding from investors such as Sequoia Capital, DFJ and Uncork Capital.
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The three-year-old company has won over the likes of Foundry Group, Crosslink Capital, Uncork Capital, TransLink Capital, and Inventec Appliances Corp (IAC).
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EDINBURG, Texas — Next month, California will uncork a $187 million campaign to prod its nearly 40 million residents to participate in the 2020 census.
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Judges: Spencer Crawley (Firstminute Capital), Thomas Korte (AngelPad), Tanja Kufner, Andy McLoughlin (Uncork Capital) and Mounia Rkha (Isai Ventures) 5:20 PM – 5:30 PM
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It also brings new investor Silicon Valley Bank into the mix, with existing investors Uncork, Nextview Ventures, ENIAC, and E14 Fund returning for another round.
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And who wouldn't want the opportunity to converse with such an influential crowd — including investors and partners from August Capital, SV Angel and Uncork Capital?
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Afterwards, the home's elevator will take you down to the walk-in wine cellar, where you can grab a bottle to uncork for the night.
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We talked on Friday with Uncork founder Jeff Clavier about the firm, which is currently writing first checks that range from $750,000 to $2 million.
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Along with our lead VC partner, Merus Capital, August Capital, Battery Ventures, Cowboy Ventures, Data Collective, General Catalyst and Uncork Capital will be in the house.
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There's a small sliver of entrepreneurs who can walk into an Uncork or Freestyle or First Round with little more than an idea and raise money.
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Initial support: So far, Callisto has received donations from a handful of VC firms, including Greylock Partners, First Round, Data Collective, Obvious Ventures, and Uncork Capital.
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Clinton's vulnerabilities, uncork another stream of donations for Mr. Sanders and embolden his supporters, including minorities in Southern states that are supposed to be a Clinton firewall.
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Using the term, "Is like selling loafers at a wine shop after discovering via YouTube that they can be used to uncork a bottle," he tells Creators.
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But before we put all of our pink-hued bottles to bed, we have one summer water left to uncork: Aldi's Exquisite Collection Côtes de Provence Rosé.
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It's also the chance to converse with some of the community's major movers and shakers — including investors and partners from August Capital, SV Angel and Uncork Capital.
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The round was led by P72 Ventures with participation from existing investors Lux Capital, Uncork Capital and AME, and new investors Dolby Ventures, Industry Ventures and Cendana.
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Instead, before they even uncork the weekend's first bottle of wine, the two are grilling each other about the psychological catalysts for pursuing a career in comedy.
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The sense of bottled-up humiliation over the post-Soviet period has been felt in sports, too, and the Olympic ban prompted some Russians to uncork their anger.
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These famous faces aren't dropping the ball on living large ... uncork our gallery of stars celebrating with big bottles to see who's sippin' while the clock is tickin'!
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Each time Condit threw a high kick or a knee, Woodley would step inside of it, uncork a right hand, and seize the takedown if it was there.
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What happened behind the scenes: President Trump this afternoon is expected to uncork his stunning withdrawal from the Paris climate accord, a decision that Axios' Jonathan Swan scooped yesterday.
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Just as the ancient Dan Henderson had managed to uncork a counter right hand in the wake of Bisping's jab, St-Pierre rattled the champion with a counter right.
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CH: We were the first investor in the [subscription-based sports website] The Athletic because I was introduced to the founders through a founder who I knew from Uncork.
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With that proof, Wonderschool went on to raise $4.1 million from Josh Kopelman at First Round Capital, Omidyar Network, Cross Culture Ventures, Uncork Capital, Lerer Hippeau, FundersClub, and Edelweiss.
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The company also said it has raised seed funding from Uncork Capital, S28 Capital, PAUA Ventures along with Bastian Lehman, CEO of Postmates and Hasso Plattner, founder of SAP.
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A flight attendant, who had clearly seen this transgression before, moved in for the confiscation, since it's against the rules to uncork your own booze on a commercial flight.
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"MakersPlace has already partnered with thousands of incredible digital artists selling their unique artwork, a testament to the easy-to-use platform they've built," said Uncork Managing Partner Jeff Clavier.
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And Uncork was an early backer in the email service startup SendGrid, which sold to the publicly traded communications platform Twilio earlier this last year for $3 billion in stock.
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Not only does it show how far smaller pools of capital can go, but Precursor is run by a single general partner, longtime VC Charles Hudson, formerly of Uncork Capital.
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Koan, a three-year-old online platform that aims to help teams achieve their objectives and stay engaged, has raised $3 million in seed funding led by Uncork Capital and Crosslink.
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First, we're thrilled to announce that investment firms August Capital, SV Angel and Uncork Capital have partnered with us for the 2nd Annual TechCrunch Winter Party at Galvanize on February 8.
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Led by DCM, this latest round also included a potentially strategic backer, the Chinese recruitment site 51job, as well as Origin Ventures, Uncork Capital and others that are not being named.
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According to Crunchbase, Vungle previously raised more than $25 million from Crosslink Capital, Thomvest Ventures, Seven Peaks Ventures, GV, AOL Ventures, Uncork Capital, 500 Startups and Angelpad, where the startup was incubated.
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At the factory in Uttoxeter, he promised that Brexit would uncork a flood of pent-up investment in Britain ("We'll start to get our mojo back, to be perfectly frank," he said).
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Facing a rapid drop in the price of oil, Russia's key export, Moscow had to uncork its Reserve Fund this year but is now running out of ways to plug budget holes.
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Earlier today at the TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin event, founder Timo Rein took the stage alongside venture capitalists Andy McLoughlin of the early-stage firm Uncork Capital and Thomas Korte of the accelerator AngelPad.
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We find out early on that Rebecca (Mandy Moore) has a "high-risk pregnancy," which in TV means to pause the show and go into the next room immediately to uncork the wine.
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That last area of interest is brand new to Uncork, so we asked if the firm — which counts Stephanie Palmeri and Andy McLoughlin as partners — was perhaps planning to hire a biotech investor.
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Uncork has enjoyed a steady stream of exits in recent years, including, most newly, the sale of adtech company Vungle for a reported $750 million last month to the private equity firm Blackstone.
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As for its first opportunity fund, the startup that has received the biggest check from Uncork — $5 million — is the fashion resale marketplace Poshmark, which is also reportedly eyeing an IPO in 2019.
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Grow your music library with a Tidal subscription, uncork and unwind with a wine delivery subscription, or do a deep dive into your pup's breed history with a dog DNA kit from Embark.
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The chattering class has largely given up on the Donald Trump "pivot," having fallen too many times for a successful read of a prepared text only to uncork an unhinged tweet two days later.
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And there will be plenty of magical opportunity afoot this year as heavy-hitter VCs from Merus Capital, August Capital, Battery Ventures, Cowboy Ventures, Data Collective, General Catalyst and Uncork Capital join the party.
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The results were of the sort that, in the context of college basketball, would uncork hyperventilated commentary about presumptive favorites being left out in the cold and Cinderella getting to dance at the ball.
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So yet again, in an interview in which he lashed President Barack Obama, past leaders of the intelligence community and the media for peddling "fake news," Trump declined to uncork unequivocal criticism of Putin.
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" The reporters — Greg Jaffe, John Hudson and Phil Rucker — uncork this illustration: "Trump seemed distracted in March as his aides briefed him ... on the administration's plan to expel 60 Russian diplomats and suspected spies.
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The raiders had planned to hold annual public reunions until only two remained, when they were to uncork a bottle of cognac — vintage 1896, the year of Doolittle's birth — for a private final toast.
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Led by co-founder and chief executive officer Bastian Lehmann, the company has garnered a total of $681 million in venture capital funding from investors, including Spark Capital, Founders Fund, Uncork Capital and Slow Ventures.
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They uncork rhetorical fantasies—inner city war zones, rigged electoral systems, hordes of terrorists and job thieves streaming across the southern border—that entice people to justify an agenda many of them wouldn't normally support.
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Putting one of the stodgy stalwarts as Punk's replacement threatens to uncork the vitriol all over again, at a time when nobody at WWE can figure out how to make their babyfaces on Raw work.
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Some, of course, were never open in the first place, and any film that would uncork them now must suppose itself more forceful than the unfathomable medley that already claims Eric Garner and Philando Castile.
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The Series C — which is being jointly led by GSV (behind Spotify, Lyft, Dropbox) and SignalFire (which has backed Grammarly, Zume, Lime), and also includes General Catalyst and Uncork Capital — will be used in two ways.
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The company is targeting millennials, who not only uncork (or unscrew) half of the bottles of wine that are consumed in this country, but they're also beyond comfortable with clicking those online "Add to Cart" buttons.
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It shouldn't be too difficult to chat up an investor since our lead VC partner, Merus Capital, will be in the house, along with August Capital, Battery Ventures, Cowboy Ventures, Data Collective, General Catalyst and Uncork Capital.
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In this week's episode, available here, Crunchbase editor-in-chief Alex Wilhelm, TechCrunch's Silicon Valley editor Connie Loizos and Jeff Clavier of Uncork Capital chat about $100 million rounds, Stripe's mega valuation and Pinterest's highly anticipated IPO.
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SYDNEY, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Thursday his government will develop a plan to uncork freight and supply chain blockages that threaten to prevent local exporters from capitalising on Asia's dining boom.
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The Raptors Team You Can Believe In. But here we are, watching an older, wiser LeBron uncork the one-footed fadeaway, that instrument of his past embarrassment, as Cleveland takes a 3-0 series lead on the Raptors.
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You never know where it might lead or when lightning might strike — especially with Lead VC Partner Merus Capital along with firms August Capital, Battery Ventures, Cowboy Ventures, Data Collective, General Catalyst, and Uncork Capital in the house.
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The big picture: Dems plan to use these hearings to uncork numerous frustrations with President Trump and his administration — including/especially questions about Russia, and objections to incoming national security adviser John Bolton, who isn't subject to confirmation.
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It's time to start recognizing that social networks actually are becoming the world-shattering forces that their boosters long promised they would be — and to be unnerved, rather than exhilarated, by the huge social changes they could uncork.
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At the center of it all is Bunbury's Ginny Baker, who, thanks to her father (Michael Beach) learned how to uncork a wicked screwball, a pitch designed to compensate for any deficiency in arm strength relative to the guys.
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In fact, it was so acute he decided to create a startup to solve that problem, and today, Crossbeam announced a $12.5 million Series A round led by FirstMark Capital, with participation from existing investors Uncork Capital and Slack Fund.
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Uncork a bottle of Peeno Noir: The trailer for season 2 of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt just dropped, and our protagonist is peppier than ever as she tries to make sense of New York City after 15 years in a doomsday bunker.
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We like to think this is all a ploy to make another cinematic dream come true: "Time to uncork that explosive sexual tension between Deadpool and Mickey Mouse," he tweeted on Wednesday, in reference to a potential deal between Fox and Disney.
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These startups made their way to the finale to demo in front of our final panel of judges, which included: Cyan Banister (Founders Fund), Roelof Botha (Sequoia Capital), Jeff Clavier (Uncork Capital), Kirsten Green (Forerunner Ventures), Aileen Lee (Cowboy Ventures) and Matthew Panzarino (TechCrunch).
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In her third season as a cast member on NBC's "Saturday Night Live," Villaseñor can uncork uncanny impersonations not only of actors such as Sarah Silverman, Kathy Griffin and Owen Wilson, but also of singers like Gwen Stefani, Lady Gaga, Ariana Grande and Celine Dion.
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The Russian rouble could firm if the government proceeds with its plan to uncork the National Wealth Fund, now at around $60 billion, and start using it once it reaches 7% of GDP, a level it is expected to reach next year, Nabiullina said.
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That's the story at a lot of places, from accelerators like Y Combinator or 500 Startups, to former super angels like Jeff Clavier, whose newly rechristened Uncork Capital (formerly SoftTech VC) increased its fund size from $12 million 10 years ago to $100 million last year.
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Today, Rosen, whose young firm is called Wonder Ventures, is taking the wraps off a $2500 million seed fund, including from Cendana Capital, a fund of funds that has backed many of today's early-stage firms as they've gotten off the round, including Forerunner Ventures, Uncork Capital and Lerer Hippeau Ventures.
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"There's one example after another as if some button had been pushed and people were openly saying to each other the tensions you've been feeling about gender changes over the last 40 years — it's just fine to uncork all those ambivalent and angry feelings," she said of national trends overall.
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The three ways Fedor did this were to either uncork the right hand and then swim it under his opponent's left armpit for the clinch, throw the right hand and get his head in on a his opponent's right hip, or throw the right hand and then weave his head out to his opponent's left hip.
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Ball's struggles to not only make shots but also to consistently free himself from defenders to comfortably uncork his wonky jumper recently prompted the ESPN analyst and former All-Star guard Chauncey Billups — in one of those trademark TMZ video interviews at Los Angeles International Airport — to advise the rookie to reach out to Martin for advice.
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Uncork Capital, the now 20153-year-old, early-stage venture firm formerly known as SoftTech VC, has closed up two new pools of committed capital totaling $22015 million: $25 million for its sixth early-stage fund, and $22019 million for an "opportunity" fund so it can stuff a little more capital into those of its portfolio companies that start to break away from the pack.
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Clavier also said that while fully half of the fund will go into startups that sell cloud software to businesses, Uncork plans to invest roughly 10% of the fund in consumer deals; roughly 10% in hardware; roughly 10% in marketplaces and 20% in so-called frontier tech — whether it be augmented reality or virtual reality or space or robotics or blockchain-related deals or bioinformatics and synthetic biology.
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At this mid-March meeting, at the Santa Monica offices of Upfront Ventures, venture capitalists Kara Nortman of Upfront and Eva Ho from Fika Ventures will host the first of its kind for Southern California founders, and they'll be joined by both Aileen Lee and Jess Lee; Kirsten Green of Forerunner Ventures; Dana Settle of Greycroft; Emily Melton of DFJ; Rebecca Kaden of Union Square Ventures; Jodi Sherman Jahic of Aligned Partners; Steph Palmeri of Uncork Capital; and, last but not least, Renata Quintini of Lux Capital.
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