# Patrick Cairns

> Patrick Cairns is a Series B investor at Morgan Creek Capital Management backing SaaS and Mining. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Morgan Creek Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/morgan-creek-capital-management)
- Location: Burlington, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Oct 2019
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-cairns-1958345
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/uniongrovevp
- Website: http://www.ugvp.com

Patrick Cairns is a Series B investor at Morgan Creek Capital Management in Burlington focused on SaaS and Mining. Patrick joined Morgan Creek in November 2012 and is a General Partner. Prior to joining Morgan Creek, Patrick co-founded Kidogo Capital Management in June, 2010. Prior to Kidogo, Patrick spent nearly two years with Greenspring Associates, focused on venture capital fund and direct investment opportunities. From 1999 until 2008, Patrick was withGrotech Ventures where he focused on early, expansion and later stage venture capital investments in technology, communications and media companies. He served as a Director or Observer to the Boards of several of Grotech's portfolio companies including Advertising.com (AOL), USinternetworking (AT&T), iBiquity Digital, Hatteras Networks, BroadSoft, Fieldglass Software and Ziptronix. Prior to joining Grotech, Mr. Cairns spent two years in the Media and Telecommunications Investment Banking Group at Alex. Brown and Sons and its successors, BT Alex. Brown and Deutsche Bank, advising clients on a variety of M&A and capital markets transactions. .Patrick graduated from Princeton University with a degree in Politics and a certificate in Economics. While at Princeton, Patrick was a member of the lacrosse team that won three NCAA Division I National Championships.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 1 | 100% |
| Mining | 1 | 100% |
| Analytics | 1 | 100% |
| Geospatial | 1 | 100% |
| Government | 1 | 100% |

10 industries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Descartes Labs | Descartes Labs is a geospatial intelligence company that performs scientific analysis of geospatial, remote sensing, and diverse complementary data sets to enable sustainable sourcing best practices, commodity price forecasting, and efficient mineral exploration for leading CPG, Agriculture, and Mining companies. Our SaaS platform automates theanalysis of geospatial imagery for our users, enabling planetary scale analysis through artificial intelligence and machine learning. The company also supports a diverse set of federal government efforts to curate, analyze, and provide unique actionable insights from geospatial data. | $20M | Series B | Oct 11, 2019 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Ajax Strategies](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ajax-strategies) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Crosslink Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crosslink-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [March Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/march-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Morgan Creek Capital Management

VC Fund · Chapel Hill, United States

Morgan Creek Capital Management, LLC is an SEC-registered investment adviser providing investment management services to institutions and wealthy families. They provide a customized investment solution to clients in need of a targeted investment program, as well as discretionary strategies to assist clients in building investment programs based onthe University Endowment Model. They provide asset allocation, manager selection, and portfolio construction.Morgan Creek was founded in July 2004 by Mark W. Yusko, former Chief Investment Officer of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ("UNC") Endowment. The core of the Morgan Creek investment team has worked together in a fiduciary capacity for many years managing one of the most complex endowment management programs in the country. Mr. Yusko and Managing Director Mike Hennessy were responsible for building the Investment Office and subsequent Management Company operations for the UNC Endowment, and they worked closely with the Investment Fund Board to develop investment policy, set goals and objectives, establish a strategic framework, select investment managers and manage portfolio risk.

4 contacts available at Morgan Creek Capital Management.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mark Yusko | Chief Executive Officer & Chief Investment Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-yusko |
| Sachin Jaitly | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sachin-jaitly |
| Jason A. Williams | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jason-a-williams |
| Patrick Cairns | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/patrick-cairns |

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## FAQ

### What does Patrick Cairns invest in?

Patrick Cairns invests primarily in SaaS, Mining and Analytics startups, most often at Series B stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Patrick Cairns last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Patrick Cairns closed in Oct 2019. Shizune tracks 1 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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