Gaurav Jain
Co-founder & Managing Partner @ Afore Capital
San Francisco, United States
Gaurav Jain is a pre-seed investor at Afore Capital in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Gaurav Jain is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Afore Capital and an Investor at Airtable, Cruise, Gamma, Firebase, Modern Health and Neo Financial. Prior to that, he was the Principal at Founder Collective. Mr. Jain attended Harvard Business School and the University of Waterloo.
- Total investments:
- 77
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 45%
Last updated:
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Industries Gaurav Jain invests in
Stages Gaurav Jain invests in
Countries Gaurav Jain invests in
Contacts
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 13 (17%)
- Artificial Intelligence 9 (12%)
- Health Care 7 (9%)
- Analytics 6 (8%)
- Enterprise Software 6 (8%)
Stage
- Pre-Seed 29 (38%)
- Seed 23 (30%)
- Series A 12 (16%)
- Series B 5 (6%)
- Series C 2 (3%)
Country
- United States 39 (51%)
- Canada 4 (5%)
- India 2 (3%)
- Argentina 1 (1%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Keychain is a CPG production platform that collaborates with retailers and brands to streamline and simplify the process of developing items that consumers adore. | $40M / Series B / Aug 19, 2025 | ||
| AI agents that make you go viral | Pre-Seed / Aug 18, 2025 | ||
| Vessel is a platform for GPs to tap into the wealth channel | $7.5M / Seed / Jun 10, 2025 | ||
| Blooming Health uses technology to help seniors with social connectedness. The company provides a solution for addressing social isolation and loneliness in older adults by delivering cell-phone-based, automated text messaging and voice calling services to enable broad access to older adults. | $26M / Series A / Apr 29, 2025 | ||
| HIPAA-compliant workflow automation platform. | $7.5M / Seed / Feb 12, 2025 | ||
| Agency assists enterprises in developing, assessing, and overseeing AI agents. Committed to fostering a secure and dependable environment for AI agent creation, Agency's flagship product, AgentOps.ai, is designed to revolutionize the way businesses build, deploy, and manage AI agents, emphasizing compliance, observability, and scalability. | $2.6M / Pre-Seed / Aug 28, 2024 | ||
| Thoughtfully assists companies in creating and implementing AI speech agents that mimic humans. | $3M / Seed / Jun 04, 2024 | ||
| HIPAA-compliant workflow automation platform. | $3M / Pre-Seed / Jun 04, 2024 | ||
| Rubie is a software solutions company that helps businesses with complex products streamline and accelerate customer onboarding. | $3.2M / Pre-Seed / Jun 01, 2024 | ||
| AI for Utilities - completely redefine how Utilities manage assets, grow the grid, predict risk, and more | $2.5M / Pre-Seed / Jun 01, 2024 | ||
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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 Gaurav Jain invest in?
Gaurav Jain invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Health Care startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 77 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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The most recent investment recorded for Gaurav Jain closed in Aug 2025. Shizune tracks 77 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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