# Andy McLoughlin

> Andy McLoughlin is a seed investor at Kauffman Fellows (San Francisco) backing Software and SaaS. See 119 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Kauffman Fellows](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kauffman-fellows)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 119
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 28%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/andymcloughlin
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/bandrew
- Website: http://www.andymcloughlin.co
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/andymcloughlin

Andy McLoughlin is a seed investor at Kauffman Fellows in San Francisco focused on Software and SaaS. Andy McLoughlin OBE is a Managing Partner at Uncork Capital, a seed-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $600k–$6M |
| Series A | $6.3M–$19M |
| Series B | $15M–$100M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 34 | 29% |
| SaaS | 22 | 18% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 15 | 13% |
| Information Technology | 11 | 9% |
| Machine Learning | 9 | 8% |

119 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 56 | 47% |
| Series A | 21 | 18% |
| Series B | 14 | 12% |
| Series C | 7 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 3% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 53 | 45% |
| United Kingdom | 7 | 6% |
| Canada | 2 | 2% |
| Israel | 2 | 2% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Unkey | Unkey operates as an open-source API authentication and authorization platform, primarily catering to user-facing APIs. The platform enables developers to create, verify, and manage API keys with low latency. Unkey's services are designed to help developers secure, manage, and scale their APIs. The company also offers an Elixir SDK, providinga simple example of its use. Unkey is also involved in solving API authentication for the next generation of developers. | $4.5M | Seed | Apr 23, 2026 |  |
| Coder | Coder is an information technology company that provides open-source tools and an enterprise platform that makes it easier to configure, secure and scale development environments. The company aims to build the best products available for developers. It was founded in 2017 and based in Austin, Texas. | $90M | Series C | Apr 01, 2026 |  |
| Mirai | On-device SDK (developer suite) for running highly optimized inference, fine-tuning, and operating LLMs and other deep learning models on the device. We aim to make it easy for developers to choose and route the query to the right model and deploy it to the device in a couple of clicks.Mirai is addressing a significant gap in on-device AIinference and training. Current cloud-based models face high latency, privacy concerns, and reliance on constant connectivity. Developers also struggle with high costs for personalization (e.g., $100M per year for 1M MAU) which is the most crucial pain point now and a core of our GTM. There’s no existing developer-friendly solution for on-device mobile AI, fine-tuning, and management. Our vision involves expanding from a robust SDK to include a developer console for model management, benchmarks, and fine-tuning. | $10M | Seed | Feb 19, 2026 |  |
| Duckbill | Cloud cost management doesn’t have to be bewildering. We provide financial planning and analysis for enterprise infrastructure to help you understand, negotiate, and optimize your cloud spend. | $7.8M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 18, 2026 |  |
| DualBird | Dual Bird develops data infrastructure tools and provides and offers data analytics. | $16.5M | Series A | Nov 05, 2025 |  |
| Anything | Create offers a platform that converts plain-language descriptions into fully functional websites, mobile apps, internal tools, and full-stack applications. The platform generates UI components, page structures, integrations, backend logic, and databases from conversational prompts. It supports a wide array of integrations, including AI models likeGPT-4o, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Stable Diffusion, payments, APIs, and custom REST endpoints, and allows users to preview, iterate, deploy, and export code in one flow. | $11M | Series A | Sep 29, 2025 |  |
| Tailscale | Tailscale develops a software-defined networking platform that simplifies the creation of secure private networks using the WireGuard protocol. Its solution enables devices to connect directly through peer-to-peer mesh networking, reducing latency and eliminating the need for traditional VPN configurations. The platform integrates with existingidentity providers, allowing for streamlined user authentication and access control. Tailscale supports various operating systems, including Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS, and offers compatibility with cloud services and Kubernetes environments. The company emphasizes ease of use and scalability, catering to teams and organizations seeking straightforward network security solutions. Tailscale builds on top of WireGuard’s Noise protocol encryption, a peer-reviewed and trusted standard. Their vision is to remove overhead and complexity from this long tail of software and operational problems that people face every day. | $161.4M | Series C | Apr 08, 2025 |  |
| Oxen AI | Oxen AI develops a platform for managing machine learning datasets. Oxen's version control supports strong data workflows so users can create AI models for image recognition, text classification, or generative AI. | $6.7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 06, 2025 |  |
| Nuon | Nuon helps you run your app on your customer's cloud. | $16.5M | Series A | Dec 17, 2024 |  |
| cside | c/side is a cybersecurity company that provides monitoring solutions, optimizing, and safeguarding vulnerable browser-side third-party scripts. | $6M | Seed | Sep 16, 2024 |  |

10 of 119 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Heavybit](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/heavybit-industries) — VC Fund, 14 deals together
- [Redpoint](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/redpoint-ventures) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [Crosslink Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crosslink-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [First Round Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-round-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Eniac Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eniac-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 5 deals together

## About Kauffman Fellows

VC Fund · Palo Alto, United States

Kauffman Fellows is a world-wide network of innovation investors who provide smart, connected capital to fuel entrepreneurial change.

5 contacts available at Kauffman Fellows.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Imraan Ahmed | Kauffman Fellow, Class 20 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/imraan-ahmed-nyc |
| Shubhang Shankar | Fellow | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shubhang-shankar |
| Aaron Applbaum | Member Class 25 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aaron-applbaum |
| Ambar Amleh | Fellow, | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ambar-amleh |
| Andrew Gershfeld | Kauffman Fellow | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-gershfeld |

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## FAQ

### What does Andy McLoughlin invest in?

Andy McLoughlin invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 119 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Andy McLoughlin's check size?

Andy McLoughlin typically joins rounds of $600k–$6M at Seed, $6.3M–$19M at Series A and $15M–$100M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Andy McLoughlin participates in.

### When did Andy McLoughlin last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Andy McLoughlin closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 119 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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