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ACTIVE
Global HQ
San Francisco, United States
Countries of investment
  • United States
Investment stages
  • Pre-Seed
Industries
  • Fintech
  • Enterprise software
  • Consumer
  • Developer tools
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Healthcare
  • Marketplaces
About
Afore Capital is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm focused on pre-seed investing. Their focus spans fintech, enterprise software, consumer, developer tools and AI across the United States. The firm supports founders at the pre-seed stage.
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$500K
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Investment Thesis

Afore Capital is a pre-seed stage firm backing founders before traction across software, fintech and consumer categories. The firm differentiates itself as one of the first institutional funds dedicated exclusively to leading pre-seed rounds.
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Manager's Experience

Founded in 2016 in San Francisco by Anamitra Banerji, an early product leader at Twitter, and Gaurav Jain, a former Google product manager and founder. One of the first institutional funds dedicated exclusively to pre-seed. Co-led the pre-seed of AgentOps.

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Team

Anamitra Banerji - Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Gaurav Jain - Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Derrick Li - Principal

Kayla Kavanaugh - Venture Partner

Jack McClelland - Investor

Portfolio

Modern Health

BenchSci

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New Lantern

Hightouch

TakeTwo

Loop AI

AgentOps

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