Tripp Jones

Tripp Jones is a General Partner at Uncork Capital, a San Francisco-based seed-stage venture firm with over 260 early-stage startup investments. A Princeton psychology grad who spent a decade at August Capital before joining Uncork in 2021, he backs consumer, B2B, and frontier tech companies at the seed stage. Known for his contrarian view that consumer VC is far from dead, he has backed companies ranging from BARK to GPTZero, and champions supply-driven marketplace models with hard-to-access inventory.