Afore Capital
San Francisco, California · Invests in US; North America; Global; Africa; Asia; LATAM; Europe; MENA · Website
Check size
🔒 $•• – $••Thesis
Backs exceptional founders from pre-idea phase through seed. Fund IV ($185M) introduces Pre-Seed 2.0 with flexible check sizes ($50K-$2M), dedicated Founders-in-Residence program (including university track), and no forced fundraising timeline.
Likely not a fit for
No non-founder-led teams, no late-stage companies (Series A+), no teams without founder conviction. We stay disciplined on pre-seed focus.
How they invest
- Lead or follow
- Usually leads
- Typical decision
- ~2 weeks
- Warm intro
- Not required
- Involvement
- Advisor
- Fund status
- Actively deploying
- Assets under mgmt
- $124M
- Decision process
- Partnership vote
Partners & team
9 contacts on file
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BenchSci is building the world's first neurosymbolic AI platform to understand disease biology, helping scientists go from hypothesis to successful experiment in days, not years. Their platform transforms scientific evidence into predictions that assist scientists in making better decisions and accelerating drug discovery.
Modern Health delivers evidence-based, equitable mental health services worldwide — from self-guided tools to crisis care — ensuring our members have the right support wherever in the world they’re located.
Overtime builds disruptive new sports leagues aimed globally at the next generation of sports fans and athletes, leveraging digital-first content across its network of accounts.
Neo Financial is a financial technology company focused on transforming the way Canadians manage their money through innovative financial products and services.
Hightouch is a Customer Data Platform (CDP) that enables marketers to sync data from their data warehouse to various marketing tools, facilitating real-time personalization and audience segmentation.
BetterUp is a professional training and coaching platform that combines human coaching with AI technology to enhance personal and organizational growth, resilience, and productivity.
Gamma is a modern media and technology enterprise founded by Larry Jackson and Ike Youssef, aimed at revolutionizing how artists create, distribute, and monetize their content and brands. The company focuses on the global expansion of artistry and culture, providing a holistic approach to the creative and economic growth of artists and innovators across music, visual media, and technology.
Flatfile is now Obvious, which helps you migrate and analyze data, create reports, generate presentations, and connect all of your tools in one collaborative workspace.
Honeycomb provides an observability platform designed for modern distributed services, focusing on enhancing software performance and reliability.
Inngest is the platform for building agentic workflows and agents powering AI products from experiment to production. It aims to simplify the process of shipping reliable software, whether it's an AI agent, a serverless application, or a distributed system.
Knock provides customer engagement infrastructure that enables product-led growth through cross-channel messaging and user engagement.
Iterative.ai provides DataChain, a platform designed to prepare and analyze multimodal data such as video, audio, PDF, and MRI scans for AI applications.
Recent activity
- Feb 2026
Loop AI
Series A · Participated
- Jan 2026
TakeTwo
Pre-Seed · Lead
- Dec 2025
Multiple 2025 Pre-Seed Investments
Pre-Seed · Lead
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Noon emerges from stealth with $44 million for AI design tool
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7 months ago
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Loop AI Raises $14M Series A
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VCCircle
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7 months ago
PR Newswire
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The Economic Times B2B
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Entrackr
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The New York Times
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Business Wire
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Business Insider
Afore Capital's Gaurav Jain Pioneered Pre-Seed Investing to Reshape VC
May 2025
PR Newswire
Blooming Health Raises $26M Series A to Transform Social Care with AI
Apr 2025
TechCrunch
Pre-seed firm Afore Capital has a fresh $185M fund and a new program to help founders discover ideas
Feb 2025
American Kahani
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The SaaS News
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Axios
Pre-seed VC firm Afore Capital raises $150 million for its third fund
May 2022
VatorNews
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TechCrunch
Afore Capital raises second pre-seed venture capital fund
Sep 2019
Forbes
Afore Capital Launches With $47M To Invest In Startups At A Hot New Stage Called 'Pre-seed'
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