What does Afore Capital invest in?
Afore Capital invests most often at Seed and Series A (67% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as AI & Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (AI/ML) and Big Data & Analytics.

United States · Investor
Last cheque observed Oct 2026; 116 cheques on record.
Deploying nowNew fund $500K, Mar 2026VC firm
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16 cheques in the last 12 months
Mostly Seed and Series A: 67% of its rounds
Sole investor in 5 rounds, median $1.8M
We’re a $500M fund investing $500k - $2M+ with high conviction in pre-traction, pre-everything companies!From their own website
Every round we can evidence, newest first116 appearances
12 rounds
34 rounds
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration3 named
We also hold 11 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
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From their own portfolio page (on their website)
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The investors most often in the same rounds as Afore Capital. A count of rooms they were both in, not a relationship either has claimed.
The latest companies Afore Capital put money into.
1 episode naming Afore Capital in the title, and 4 more that mention it.

20VC: Why Now Is The Hardest Time To Raise an Institutional Pre-Seed in the Last Decade, What To Do When The Founder and VC Interests Do Not Align & The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds with Gaurav Jain, Founder & Managing Partner @ Afore Capital
WithGaurav Jain

Gaurav Jain on Building $500M Fund, Missing Ramp and Backing Irrational Founders

How to Skip Your Seed, Pre-Seed Lessons Building Afore to $500M+ AUM | Anamitra Banerji

418. Why Market Size is Irrelevant, Patterns from Working with the Best Founders, & How AI Compares to Past Paradigm Shifts (Gaurav Jain)

🏀 How Overtime Grew to 85 Million Fans | Dan Porter (Co-founder and CEO, Overtime)
Afore Capital invests most often at Seed and Series A (67% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as AI & Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (AI/ML) and Big Data & Analytics.
116 investments on record, 16 of them in the last 12 months, and it led 1. The most recent was in Oct 2026.
Its most recent investments on record: Colare (Pre-seed, Oct 2026), Baselayer (Series A, Sept 2026) and Rally (Venture, Aug 2026).
The median round it joins is $6.3M. It says it writes cheques of $100K to $3.0M.
Sometimes: it led 1 of its 116 investments on record (1%).
Most of the companies it backs are in the United States (92%) and Canada (5%).
Yes: it is actively investing, with 16 investments in the last 12 months.
Most often Y Combinator (24 rounds together), Founder Collective (7 rounds together) and Flybridge (6 rounds together).
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