Afore Capital
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Afore Capital is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Afore Capital backs product-centric founders at the pre-seed stage exclusively. The investment team brings 16 years of founding product experience (Android and Twitter) and 7 years of institutional investing experience (Founder Collective and Foundation Capital). Their sweet spot is the ~$1M pre-seed round, where they can lead the round as aninstitutional investor alongside high value angels.
- Total investments:
- 237
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 31%
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Afore Capital invests in
Stages Afore Capital invests in
Countries Afore Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $2.2M–$10M
- Pre-Seed
- $500k–$3.2M
- Series A
- $7M–$25M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 44 (19%)
- Artificial Intelligence 32 (14%)
- Information Technology 19 (8%)
- Financial Services 12 (5%)
- FinTech 11 (5%)
Stage
- Seed 81 (34%)
- Pre-Seed 56 (24%)
- Series A 40 (17%)
- Series B 8 (3%)
- Funding Round 5 (2%)
Country
- United States 100 (42%)
- Canada 9 (4%)
- India 2 (1%)
- Namibia 1 (0%)
- Argentina 1 (0%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Anamitra Banerji
Managing Partner, Co-Founder
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Managing Partner, Co-Founder | Total investments: 40 | Find email | |
Derrick Li
Principal
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Principal | Total investments: 22 | Find email | |
Gaurav Jain
Co-founder & Managing Partner
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Co-founder & Managing Partner | Total investments: 63 | Find email | |
John Brownlee
Content Strategist
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Content Strategist | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Nandeet Mehta
Venture Product Partner
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Venture Product Partner | Total investments: 10 | Find email | |
| See all 6 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Tideshiftai
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TideShiftAI is a unified AI governance and operations platform that helps enterprises discover how models, applications, agents, and tools are being used. It combines policy enforcement, permissions, approvals, activity records, performance evaluation, and cost insights in one workspace, giving teams the visibility and control needed to scale AIsecurely and responsibly. | $3.2M / Series A / Jul 25, 2026 | |
Petra Labs
|
Petra Labs is the platform enterprises rely on to manage and improve how they show up in AI-powered search, combining technology with hands-on execution. The platform monitors brand visibility across generative engines, analyzes where and how companies are cited, and identifies high-value prompts to track at scale. Petra Labs delivers customizedattribution models tailored to enterprise needs, connecting AI search presence to pipeline, traffic, and revenue signals. In addition to software, Petra Labs provides hands-on services to action insights, implement optimizations, and continuously improve AI search performance. | $5.2M / Seed / Jul 22, 2026 | |
Aemon
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Aemon builds an AI system that reads code and research, runs experiments, and improves engineering solutions against defined tests. | $500K / Pre-Seed / Mar 24, 2026 | |
Cochgugous
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Cochgugous is an AI-powered decision intelligence platform built for financial services and operationally complex industries. It combines real-time data ingestion, predictive modeling, and adaptive optimization to help banks, lenders, and supply chain platforms make faster, more accurate credit and underwriting decisions. The platform transformsfragmented transaction, invoice, and logistics data into actionable risk insights, enabling automated supplier financing and consumer lending with 2x better risk separation than traditional credit scores. Designed for high-variability environments, cochgugous continuously improves outcomes through learning systems — supporting use cases across personal lending, auto financing, HELOCs, and supply chain credit. | $3.2M / Seed / Feb 03, 2026 | |
Transformer Lab
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Open source platform for training large language models | Pre-Seed / Feb 02, 2026 | |
Loop AI - Delivery Intelligence Platform
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A co-pilot for modern food brands | $14M / Series A / Feb 02, 2026 | |
TakeTwo
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TakeTwo, an AI-native film studio, was founded in 2025. The startup was co-founded by Rudresh Upadhyaya (CEO) and Raghav Katta (CTO), who established the company after graduating from Y Combinator's AI Startup School.TakeTwo is an AI-native film studio specialising in high-end visual storytelling by integrating AI into professional filmworkflows. | Pre-Seed / Jan 28, 2026 | |
Dominion Dynamics
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Dominion Dynamics is an advanced technology firm building a dual-use, AI-driven Arctic sensing network designed for both military and civilian applications, focusing on seamless multi-domain coordination and persistent regional surveillance. | $15.1M / Seed / Jan 19, 2026 | |
Colare
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Colare is an AI-powered hiring platform that uses real engineering simulations to help hardtech companies assess and hire engineers faster and more accurately. | Pre-Seed / Jan 05, 2026 | |
Aravolta
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Aravolta provides software that helps data center operators monitor, control, and manage complex infrastructure through a unified platform. The company’s products combine data center infrastructure management, network monitoring, and asset tracking into a single interface to support real-time visibility and operational workflows. Its platformincludes tools for automated alerts, infrastructure planning, compliance reporting, and integration with diverse hardware systems to streamline workflows and visibility across electrical, cooling, and IT assets. Aravolta also offers features such as customizable customer portals and remote monitoring capabilities that enable remote oversight and control of modular or distributed facilities. Its services target colocation providers, cloud operators, and data center managers seeking integrated operational and compliance software solutions. | $5.1M / Seed / Dec 19, 2025 | |
| See all 237 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
Y Combinator
21 deals together
Lightspeed Venture Partners
18 deals together
Gradient
13 deals together
South Park Commons
12 deals together
FJ Labs
11 deals together
Golden Ventures
10 deals together
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FAQ
What does Afore Capital invest in?
Afore Capital invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 237 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Afore Capital's check size?
Afore Capital typically joins rounds of $2.2M–$10M at Seed, $500k–$3.2M at Pre-Seed and $7M–$25M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Afore Capital participates in.
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Who are the partners at Afore Capital?
The team at Afore Capital includes Anamitra Banerji (Managing Partner, Co-Founder), Derrick Li (Principal) and Gaurav Jain (Co-founder & Managing Partner), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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