DroneDeploy, Inc.

This is one of the biggest things that I've seen from one of our clients who says, it's not just about eliminating rework, but if I can eliminate travel to go inspect things personally, rile my troops, get things back on site, every time I can reduce those trips, I save five grand.

And that's important because this is where DroneDeploy and Procore come together.

Why did Procore buy DroneDeploy? Procore is the centerpiece of all information about any project at any one given time.

You can have a thousand people working on the same project from one space.

That centralization of data is critical.

This is really interesting and it's the future.

And you wonder, is someone like Drone2Play working on that? I can't believe Drone2Play sold for so much money when their profit margin was so tiny.

And then I think about DroneDeploy versus Pix4D.

And over that time, the Uncork team has backed more than 280 startups, including Fitbit, Sungrid, Postmates, Mint, Eventbrite, and Poshmark.

Today, he supports companies like DroneDeploy, Front, Shippo, ClassDojo, Phil, and Carrot Fertility, and sits on the boards of Loft Orbital, Misari, Inscribe, UserGems, Overflow, Lumina, and Coops.

Often the first big check a founding team takes and the longest relationship they keep.

Born, raised, and educated in France, Jeff earned an MS in computer science and a degree in distributed computing from the University Paris Descartes.

Yeah.

And I think the, You believe in the founder and you're there for them all the way, something which is extremely important.

DroneDeploy, for example, we participated in every single round that they raised, which is six or seven, and it was it was really important to founders, even though we're just, you know, the seed lead that they had, you know, worked with for 13 years, they really sort of appreciated that we're there for them all the time.

It's not that the 750K check that we put in the last round sort of mattered, but it was the proof that we trusted them and we believed in them.