# Anamitra Banerji

> Anamitra Banerji is a pre-seed investor at Afore Capital backing Software. See 40 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Afore Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/afore-capital)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 40
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 53%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anamitrab/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/anamitra
- Website: https://x.com/anamitra

Anamitra Banerji is a pre-seed investor at Afore Capital in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Anamitra Banerji is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Co-founder, Managing Partner of Afore Capital. Anamitra previously worked at Foundation Capital as a Partner. Anamitra Banerji attended the Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 15 | 38% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 7 | 18% |
| SaaS | 5 | 13% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 10% |
| FinTech | 3 | 8% |

61 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 16 | 40% |
| Seed | 13 | 33% |
| Series A | 7 | 18% |
| Series B | 2 | 5% |
| Series C | 1 | 3% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 20 | 50% |
| India | 1 | 3% |
| Singapore | 1 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 3% |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Loop AI - Delivery Intelligence Platform | A co-pilot for modern food brands | $14M | Series A | Feb 02, 2026 |  |
| Cercli | Cercli is a human resources, modern payroll and employee data platform for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). | $12M | Series A | Oct 21, 2025 |  |
| Blazel | Blazel is an AI-powered enterprise platform automating executive communications, personal branding, and B2B thought leadership content. | $10.3M | Pre-Seed | Jul 16, 2025 |  |
| ConverzAI | ConverzAI enables recruiting and staffing teams to realize their revenue potential with readily deployable Voice AI. The ConverzAI Voice AI platform automates candidate screening at scale while maintaining the human touch. For us conversations come before AI and that’s what inspires us to innovate. It’s the engagement experience that matters themost and we ensure that experience is human-like and transparent to sustain meaningful long conversations.Our AI solutions help organizations achieve their revenue potential by scaling human engagement processes while delivering powerful strategic insights that encourage recruiting strategy refinements to help more candidates land the jobs they desire.With the ConverzAI Voice AI platform, customers experience more job coverage, complete candidate pool coverage, and enhanced candidate pipeline management driving immediate revenue growth. | $16M | Series A | Feb 11, 2025 |  |
| Cercli | Cercli is a human resources, modern payroll and employee data platform for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). | $4M | Seed | Sep 03, 2024 |  |
| Openmart | AI agent that automates B2B sales for brands and manufacturers. | $2.8M | Seed | Aug 21, 2024 |  |
| Tezi | Tezi is building an Autonomous AI trained by top hiring managers and recruiters to lead the end-to-end hiring process. It proactively sources, screens applications, schedules interviews, collects scorecards, and never drops the ball. | $9M | Seed | Jul 31, 2024 |  |
| Rubie | Rubie is a software solutions company that helps businesses with complex products streamline and accelerate customer onboarding. | $3.2M | Pre-Seed | Jun 01, 2024 |  |
| Quest Labs AI | Quest is a data infrastructure platform that helps organizations leverage user data to unlock powerful user experiences in a privacy-preserving manner. With Quest, businesses and other entities can collect and analyze large amounts of user data, while still respecting users' privacy and data rights. The platform provides tools for datamanagement, storage, and analysis, as well as for implementing privacy-preserving techniques like differential privacy and federated learning. By leveraging Quest's data infrastructure, organizations can develop and deploy cutting-edge applications and services that provide valuable insights into user behavior, preferences, and needs, without compromising on privacy. Quest is committed to making data-driven insights more accessible and transparent, while also protecting user privacy and data security. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Feb 07, 2024 |  |
| Openmart | AI agent that automates B2B sales for brands and manufacturers. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Oct 15, 2023 |  |

10 of 40 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Comma Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/comma-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [South Park Commons](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/south-park-commons) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Imagination Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/imagination-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Village Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/village-global-2) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Xfund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/xfund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Afore Capital

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

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.

5 contacts available at Afore Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Anamitra Banerji | Managing Partner, Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anamitra-banerji |
| Derrick Li | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/derrick-li-695a |
| Gaurav Jain | Co-founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gaurav-jain-2 |
| John Brownlee | Content Strategist | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-brownlee |
| Nandeet Mehta | Venture Product Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nandeet-mehta |

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## FAQ

### What does Anamitra Banerji invest in?

Anamitra Banerji invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 40 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Anamitra Banerji last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Anamitra Banerji closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 40 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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