# Derrick Li

> Derrick Li is a pre-seed investor at Afore Capital backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 22 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: 22
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 9%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/derrickli978/
- Website: https://derrickli.com/#investing

Derrick Li is a pre-seed investor at Afore Capital in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Derrick Li

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 15 | 68% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 7 | 32% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 18% |
| SaaS | 3 | 14% |
| Developer Tools | 3 | 14% |

29 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 10 | 45% |
| Seed | 8 | 36% |
| Series A | 2 | 9% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 5% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Aemon | 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 | 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 | Datacurve Providing code data validated by engineers, allowing you to design the most competent model or application | $15M | Series A | Oct 09, 2025 |  |
| Accordance | 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 | 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 |  |
| Develop Health | AI Copilot for Medication Prior Auth | $17.6M | Series A | Aug 20, 2025 |  |
| Coverflow | 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 | 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 | Datacurve Providing code data validated by engineers, allowing you to design the most competent model or application | $500K | Pre-Seed | Mar 01, 2024 |  |
| Develop Health | AI Copilot for Medication Prior Auth | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | May 08, 2023 |  |

10 of 22 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [South Park Commons](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/south-park-commons) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Soma Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/soma-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Leadout Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leadout-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Liquid 2 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liquid2-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 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 Derrick Li invest in?

Derrick Li invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 22 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 Derrick Li last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Derrick Li closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 22 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?

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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