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Tripp Jones serves as an Independent Director on the board of Fortress Value Acquisition Corp. V (NASDAQ: FVAV), a blank-check SPAC that priced its $250 million IPO on February 27, 2026. He was appointed to the board on February 25, 2026, in connection with the offering, and was also named interim chair of both the Audit Committee and the Compensation Committee. FVAV is a Cayman Islands special-purpose acquisition company focused on effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, or similar business combination, and as of mid-2026 held approximately $290.9 million in a U.S. Treasury-invested trust account while pursuing a target within its 24-to-27-month combination window. Jones serves alongside fellow independent director Karen Park and chairman Andrew A. McKnight on the FVAV board.
In his primary professional capacity, Jones is a General Partner at Uncork Capital, a seed-stage venture firm based in Menlo Park and San Francisco, California, where he invests broadly in information technology companies with a particular focus on AI applications, consumer, marketplace, and fintech businesses, and also leads the firm's later-stage efforts. Before joining Uncork Capital, he spent more than a decade as a General Partner at August Capital. Earlier in his career, he was a Senior Associate at Spectrum Equity and began his professional journey as a fintech analyst in investment banking. Jones earned his BA in Psychology from Princeton University and is originally from the San Francisco Bay Area.
Jones's investment track record spans a broad portfolio of notable companies. He led investments in ADARA, BARK, CommonBond, Compology, Hipcamp, Paperless Post, Quandl, Revel, Rocketmiles, SendBird, Spacious, Sun Basket, Wattpad, and Yumi, and was involved in investments in Amount, Avant, Ebates, Fastly, GitLab, Integral Ad Science, PubMatic, RJMetrics, Rockets of Awesome, Stitch Data, ThreatMetrix, and Zulily. His angel portfolio includes 100 Thieves, ALPEN, Alto IRA, Daring Foods, Fursure, neo.tax, and Saga. At Uncork, his current and recent investments include GPTZero (acquired by Superhuman), Groq, Soma Energy (which he also founded and which is rethinking data center energy consumption in the AI era), Knit Health, Hallow, DubClub, Final Round AI, Wander, and neo.tax. A dozen of the companies he has backed have grown from early stage to billion-dollar businesses. He frequently co-invests alongside firms such as Bling Capital, DCM Ventures, Precursor Ventures, and Stellation Capital.
Outside of venture capital, Jones is a resident of Mill Valley in Marin County, California, and is a former ski coach at Squaw Valley who remains active outdoors, often on the trails of Marin with his family. He has described himself as having wanted to be a venture capitalist since age eight, one of what he calls the many quirks of growing up in the Bay Area. At home, he is known for making hot breakfasts every morning for his wife and three children. His investment philosophy centers on spotting where markets are headed before most investors are paying attention, partnering with founders in complex, messy markets where technology can create dramatic change, and drawing on venture history and past technology cycles to anticipate what comes next.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0001837018 — the identifier this person files under in their own name. Every vehicle above is a filing made under that CIK, so “the same person on two shells” is a fact about an SEC identifier rather than about a name that happens to match.
Roles are the strings the filings used, in the order they were filed. Nothing on this page ranks them, infers seniority, or offers a reason why any two of these names recur — a recurrence is a count, and the filings that produced it are linked beside every row. We also hold 6 institutional-holder rows on these vehicles, under 5 distinct name strings, and none of them is counted across vehicles: that table has no CIK column, and matching holders by name would merge firms that are not the same firm.