Amy Saper
General Partner
Uncork Capital
Amy Saper is a general partner at Uncork Capital backing seed-stage B2B startups building AI-enabled applications and infrastructure for engineering, product, and design teams.
Bio
Professional summary
Susan Liu is a general partner at Uncork Capital. Her official profile describes her as backing founders using AI to transform legacy industries where the need for change is significant. She brings more than a decade of B2B investing experience and emphasizes diligence through buyer conversations, workflow mapping, and identifying essential pain points. At Uncork, she has backed companies including Numeral, a sales-tax automation company, and Ivo, an AI-powered contract review platform for in-house legal teams. Before Uncork, she worked at Scale Venture Partners, where she sourced companies such as WalkMe, later acquired by SAP, and Wrike, later acquired by Citrix. Her profile also notes recognition from Forbes 30 Under 30 and the NVCA Rising Star Award.
Investment focus
Stage, sector, and overall fit
Stage
SeedSeries ASeries B
Sector
B2B applicationsAI in legacy industriesVertical softwareLegal technologyTax automation
Thesis
AI transforming legacy industriesB2B applications with essential workflow pain pointsSeed-stage founders preparing for the next milestone
Notable companies
Selected portfolio companies the partner has backed
NumeralIvoBeziAmperos HealthGrooveWalkMeWrike
How to approach
Framing and angles for outreach
Pitch framing
Anchor the pitch in a legacy-industry workflow, buyer urgency, and why AI makes the product essential rather than incremental.
Personalization hooks
- 1Show evidence from buyer interviews or workflow mapping, matching her diligence style.
- 2Reference Numeral or Ivo if the company touches tax, finance, legal, or back-office automation.
Recent signals
What the partner has said or done recently
Latest articles listed on her Uncork profile include raising a Series A in an AI-first world and investment in Amperos Health.
Background
Career, education, and skills
Career history
- Uncork CapitalGeneral PartnerAug 2021 - Present
- Scale Venture PartnersInvestorPrior to 2021
Education
- University of California, BerkeleyBA, Economics (Alpha Kappa Psi)
Skills
B2B investingVertical SaaSSeed investingForbes 30 Under 30NVCA Rising Star
Languages
Cantonese
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