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Afore Capital

San Francisco, California · Invests in US; North America; Global; Africa; Asia; LATAM; Europe; MENA · Website

Pre-SeedSeedConsumer Apps & SocialB2B SaaSAI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsFintechHealthcare & BiotechEnterprise SoftwareDeveloper Tools & InfrastructureFintech & PaymentsHealthcare & Digital Health

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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Gaurav Jain

General PartnerCo-founder & Managing Partner · Primary contact

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Anamitra Banerji

General PartnerCo-founder & Managing Partner

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Derrick Li

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Kayla Kavanaugh

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Jack McClelland

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Laura Du

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Joe Cardini

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Jared Luttrell

Platform & OpsVP of Finance

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Nathan Yu

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Portfolio

BenchSciBiotech Life Sciences

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 HealthHealthcare Digital

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.

OvertimeMedia Entertainment

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 FinancialFintech Payments

Neo Financial is a financial technology company focused on transforming the way Canadians manage their money through innovative financial products and services.

HightouchEnterprise Software

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.

BetterUpHr Tech Work

BetterUp is a professional training and coaching platform that combines human coaching with AI technology to enhance personal and organizational growth, resilience, and productivity.

GammaMedia Entertainment

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.

FlatfileEnterprise Software

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.

HoneycombEnterprise Software

Honeycomb provides an observability platform designed for modern distributed services, focusing on enhancing software performance and reliability.

InngestEnterprise Software

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.

KnockEnterprise Software

Knock provides customer engagement infrastructure that enables product-led growth through cross-channel messaging and user engagement.

Iterative.aiEnterprise Software

Iterative.ai provides DataChain, a platform designed to prepare and analyze multimodal data such as video, audio, PDF, and MRI scans for AI applications.

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Afore Capital Research Investment Thesis & Philosophy Afore Capital is a San Francisco-based pre-seed specialist that invests in pre-traction, pre-formation founders with checks ranging from $•• to $••+. Founded and led by Co-founders and Managing Partners Gaurav Jain and Anamitra Banerji, the fund is purpose-built for the earliest stage of company building, operating on the philosophy that grea

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