Derrick Li
Principal @ Afore Capital
San Francisco, United States
Derrick Li is a seed investor at Afore Capital in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Derrick Li
- Total investments:
- 31
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 6%
Last updated:
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Industries Derrick Li invests in
Stages Derrick Li invests in
Countries Derrick Li invests in
Contacts
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 21 (68%)
- Artificial Intelligence 7 (23%)
- Information Technology 5 (16%)
- SaaS 3 (10%)
- FinTech 3 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 14 (45%)
- Pre-Seed 11 (35%)
- Series A 3 (10%)
- Angel 1 (3%)
- Convertible Note 1 (3%)
Country
- United States 26 (84%)
- United Kingdom 1 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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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 | ||
| Golpo offers an AI-powered content creation tool that converts a document or topic into conversational audio and explainer videos. | $4.1M / Seed / Oct 15, 2025 | ||
| Datacurve Providing code data validated by engineers, allowing you to design the most competent model or application | $15M / Series A / Oct 09, 2025 | ||
| Accordance is the frontier AI platform for world-class tax, audit, and CPA teams. The company's mission is to empower every professional to deliver excellence, enabling professionals to become the architects of tomorrow's financial world. Its technology was developed by former researchers from the Stanford Artificial IntelligenceLaboratory in collaboration with industry experts, professors, and practitioners. The company was founded in 2024 and is backed by Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, Sequoia Capital, and Menlo Ventures. | $10M / Seed / Sep 08, 2025 | ||
| Accordance is the frontier AI platform for world-class tax, audit, and CPA teams. The company's mission is to empower every professional to deliver excellence, enabling professionals to become the architects of tomorrow's financial world. Its technology was developed by former researchers from the Stanford Artificial IntelligenceLaboratory in collaboration with industry experts, professors, and practitioners. The company was founded in 2024 and is backed by Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, Sequoia Capital, and Menlo Ventures. | $3M / Pre-Seed / Sep 08, 2025 | ||
| AI Copilot for Medication Prior Auth | $17.6M / Series A / Aug 20, 2025 | ||
| Coverflow is an AI-powered platform designed for policy checking, AMS updates, and generating proposals. Users can upload policies, and the AI automatically identifies and organizes them for analysis, flagging discrepancies and highlighting key details. The platform enables the generation of personalized proposals and provides complete checks toensure accurate decision-making. It also offers integration with other systems, automatic updates, and secure data handling with SOC2 compliance. | $4.8M / Seed / Jul 16, 2025 | ||
| Golpo offers an AI-powered content creation tool that converts a document or topic into conversational audio and explainer videos. | Pre-Seed / Nov 12, 2024 | ||
| Datacurve Providing code data validated by engineers, allowing you to design the most competent model or application | $500K / Pre-Seed / Mar 01, 2024 | ||
| AI Copilot for Medication Prior Auth | $1.8M / Pre-Seed / May 08, 2023 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Afore Capital
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.
Afore Capital Contacts
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Anamitra Banerji
Managing Partner, Co-Founder
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Derrick Li
Principal
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Gaurav Jain
Co-founder & Managing Partner
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John Brownlee
Content Strategist
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Nandeet Mehta
Venture Product Partner
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What does Derrick Li invest in?
Derrick Li invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 31 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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When did Derrick Li last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Derrick Li closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 31 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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