# Gaurav Jain

> Gaurav Jain is a seed investor at Afore Capital (San Francisco) backing Software and Health Care. See 63 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: 63
- Last investment: Aug 2025
- Lead investor: 38%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gjainvc/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/gjain
- Website: https://x.com/gjain

Gaurav Jain is a seed investor at Afore Capital in San Francisco focused on Software and Health Care. 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.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 10% |
| Health Care | 5 | 8% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 8% |
| Analytics | 4 | 6% |
| Developer APIs | 4 | 6% |

65 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 17 | 27% |
| Pre-Seed | 16 | 25% |
| Series A | 10 | 16% |
| Series B | 4 | 6% |
| Series C | 2 | 3% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 24 | 38% |
| Canada | 3 | 5% |
| Argentina | 1 | 2% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Keychain | 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 |  |
| Vectus | AI agents that make you go viral |  | Pre-Seed | Aug 18, 2025 |  |
| Vessel | Vessel is a platform for GPs to tap into the wealth channel | $7.5M | Seed | Jun 10, 2025 |  |
| Blooming Health | 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 |  |
| Keragon | HIPAA-compliant workflow automation platform. | $7.5M | Seed | Feb 12, 2025 |  |
| Agency AI | 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 |  |
| Thoughtly | Thoughtfully assists companies in creating and implementing AI speech agents that mimic humans. | $3M | Seed | Jun 04, 2024 |  |
| Keragon | HIPAA-compliant workflow automation platform. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Jun 04, 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 |  |
| Senpilot | AI for Utilities - completely redefine how Utilities manage assets, grow the grid, predict risk, and more | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | Jun 01, 2024 |  |

10 of 63 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Gradient](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gradient-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Two Sigma Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/two-sigma-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Valar Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/valar-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Abstract](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a-list-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Coelius Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coelius-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [focal](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/focal-4f67) — VC Fund, 4 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 Gaurav Jain invest in?

Gaurav Jain invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 63 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 Gaurav Jain last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Gaurav Jain closed in Aug 2025. Shizune tracks 63 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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