Investor profile for Afore Capital: stage-based planning range, investment stages, sector focus, portfolio companies, sources, and verification status. Part of the Venture Capital Tracker directory.
Afore Capital
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San Francisco pre-seed specialist co-founded by Anamitra Banerji and Gaurav Jain, leading first institutional rounds for product-oriented software founders.
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Afore Capital invests exclusively at pre-seed, often as a founder's first institutional check. The firm leads those rounds and also runs a Founders-in-Residence program for founders still in the ideation phase.
Afore's sweet spot is roughly $1M–$2M into a founder's first institutional round. With its Pre-Seed 2.0 approach (Fund IV, $185M), the firm flexibly writes checks from about $50K up to $2M+ depending on founder needs.
Afore Capital is headquartered in San Francisco. While Bay Area founders are common in the portfolio, the firm invests in U.S. pre-seed software companies broadly rather than restricting to one city.
Afore backs product-oriented founders building software companies — often in AI, fintech, health, SaaS, and developer tools — at the pre-traction, 'day zero' stage when the product may still be raw.
Afore typically leads a founder's first institutional pre-seed round and can structure alongside high-value angels. The firm has issued term sheets with just a founder's name before a company entity exists.
In our directory, Afore Capital is linked to Gamma (/startup/gammaapp) and Inngest (/startup/inngest).
Pre-seed founders can apply via afore.vc or explore the Founders-in-Residence program for ideation-stage support. Warm intros from product leaders and prior founders help, but the firm is actively sourcing pre-seed deals.
We do not yet have dedicated articles tagged to Afore Capital. The firm announced a $185M Fund IV and Pre-Seed 2.0 strategy in February 2025 per TechCrunch — see /fund/afore-capital for directory context.
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