Today, I’m proud to publicly announce Podqi’s $3.2 million seed funding led by General Catalyst with participation from Afore Capital and Soma Capital. We’re incredibly fortunate to have these partners alongside us. Read more about our announcement in Axios linked in the comments (big thanks to Timothy B Baysinger). Ivan Esmeral, Jesse Xu, and I have had the pleasure of engaging with hundreds of individuals and companies that met with us because the problem of IP infringement had reached a point where the solution seemed outside human capability. From these insights, we’ve built best-in-class software that is finely tuned to provide full-scale IP protection for brands globally—including automated monitoring, evidence documentation, takedowns, retroactive compensation, and more. The power can now be placed firmly back in the hands of IP owners. We actively service some of the biggest brands and law firms across industries from retail to entertainment and more. If you are a licensing or legal professional that’s all too familiar with the game of takedown whack-a-mole, I’d love to meet you. Thank you everyone and we greatly appreciate the support! Special thanks: Anamitra Banerji, Gaurav Jain, jack mcclelland, Andrea Wang, Marc Bhargava, Vincent Zhu, Fouad Farhat
Afore Capital
风险投资与私募股权管理人
San Francisco，California 11,456 位关注者
Afore Capital is a $300M venture fund that focuses on Pre-Seed stage exclusively and is based in San Francisco.
关于我们
Afore Capital is a Pre-Seed VC with $300 million in AUM co-founded by Anamitra Banerji & Gaurav Jain. We support product-oriented founders building software companies at the very earliest stages. Our sweet spot is investing $1-2m+ into founders' first institutional round. We can lead this round alongside high value angels. At Afore, we believe that before there's a company, before there's a business, there's a product-oriented founder leading by product. The products are often raw, sometimes just rough concepts requiring a lot of imagination. They are pre-traction and pre-obvious. But they come from founders with non-obvious insights and infectious ambitions. We started Afore to back these founders at the pre-seed stage exclusively, on day zero of their journey. We bring with us 16 years of product experience and 7 years of institutional investing experience.
- 网站
-
https://afore.vc
Afore Capital的外部链接
- 所属行业
- 风险投资与私募股权管理人
- 规模
- 2-10 人
- 总部
- San Francisco，California
- 类型
- 私人持股
- 创立
- 2016
- 领域
- Venture Capital、Seed Stage Venture Capital、Pre Seed Venture Capital、Entrepreneurship 和Founders
地点
-
主要
获取路线
US，California ，San Francisco
Afore Capital员工
动态
-
Thinking of starting a company, but still searching for a cofounder? Single and ready to demo? We got you ?? Check out this event at the Afore office in SF on Thursday 3/6. Excited to meet you!
looking for cofounders? we are hosting Single and Ready to Demo next Thu @ 5 pm in SF folks will have 3 min to demo what they are currently tinkering on and meet other folks looking for cofounders after sign up here: https://lu.ma/lcmy4ohe
-
-
Thanks TechCrunch for the coverage of our $185m oversubscribed Fund 4 - grateful for our founders, LP's, and friends https://lnkd.in/g2Qyb-Ad
-
After 8 years of pre-seed investing, Afore Capital is expanding the aperture of what it means to invest at this?stage with a brand new $185M fund. We're focusing on Pre-Seed 2.0: the future of pre-seed. This is our 4th successive oversubscribed fund. We have also returned more than 1X of our $47M Fund 1 just in the last 6 months. We couldn’t have done any of this without the support of our broader community, including our LPs,?angels,?friends, and - most importantly - our 200+ incredible founders. Thank you! https://lnkd.in/eDE7BBzG
-
Congratulations to the Hightouch team on raising $80M in Series C funding, bringing their valuation to $1.2B!??? It has been a privilege to partner early with the team as they’ve built a platform that is changing how companies use data for marketing. Afore Capital invested in Hightouch during its pre-seed round, and it’s been incredible to watch them evolve to where they are today. Hightouch is helping brands use data from their warehouses to improve marketing, sales, and customer service. By connecting these data sources to the tools that teams already use and leveraging AI to automate decision-making, Hightouch aims to makes it easier for marketers to send personalized messages at the right time! https://lnkd.in/eXKj7XMA
-
Congratulations to the Koala team on raising $15M in Series A funding led by CRV! https://lnkd.in/gGfkBGqm
-
Huge congratulations to the Keragon team on closing the $7.5M seed round led by Upfront Ventures! It’s been an exciting journey partnering with the team from day 0, well before they had any revenue or product! Keragon’s AI-driven platform is transforming healthcare operations by streamlining workflows to improve patient care. Can’t wait to see what’s next as they continue to scale and innovate??? https://lnkd.in/dwUV7SXU
-
Congratulations to the ConverzAI team on their $16m Series A led by Menlo Ventures! It has been a privilege to have partnered with the team early and watch their rapid growth in the past year. Excited to see how their voice AI and agent-driven products continue to reshape operations for staffing and recruiting agencies. https://lnkd.in/g9zyiEQw
-
Grove has built a best-in-class patient relationship management platform for clinical trials, and is growing fast with the goal of accelerating clinical trials and delivering new treatments to patients faster They are hiring exceptional engineers and operators, reach out to:?[email protected] Excited to see one of our Founders-in-Residence teams crushing it
Announcing Grove AI's $4.9M Seed Round to Transform Clinical Trials ?? We’re thrilled to share that Grove AI has secured $4.9 million in seed funding, led by A*, with participation from Afore Capital, LifeX Ventures, Pear VC, Upfront Ventures, and an incredible group of industry angel investors including Ajit Baid, Chloe Yoo, Phuc Truong, Till Pieper, Quoc Trinh, among others. Read more about our journey and mission: https://lnkd.in/gN5VdKNd Press release: https://lnkd.in/dekD_tPQ Sohit Gatiganti, Tran Lê, and Anthony Riley witnessed firsthand the bottlenecks in clinical research:? - Coordinators manage hundreds of participant interactions - Patients struggle for months to connect to trials and sites - Doctors face overwhelming hours of chart reviews each day At Grove AI, we’re tackling these unsolved challenges with our AI-powered participant relationship management (PRM) platform. At the core of the platform is Grace, a multilingual, 24/7 AI clinical research agent that prescreens participants, schedules appointments, and coordinates follow-ups. In the last six months, Grace has powered 250,000+ interactions between participants and sites across 70,000+ diverse participants and 5+ therapeutic areas with a 97% participant satisfaction rate. This enables research teams to adapt rapidly, reduce staff burnout, and conduct trials with unparalleled efficiency and precision. Thank you to our team, customers, investors, and partners for joining our mission. Together, we’re excited to tackle the biggest challenges in clinical trials and bring new treatments to patients faster. We’re hiring exceptional engineers and operators: [email protected]. #HealthcareInnovation #AI #ClinicalTrials #SeedFunding #Hiring #JPM2025 #GenAI #ClinicalResearch #Pharma #LifeSciences #SCOPE2025 #ClinicalTrials #CRO #SMO
-
-
Interested in applying to Afore's Founder in Residence (FIR) program? Stop by to meet our team on Tuesday 1/14 in SF! Register here: https://lu.ma/f1ainvfw For more info on FIR: https://lnkd.in/exBXfUh2
Calling all idea-stage founders and pre-trend thinkers! Grace Gong and I are teaming up to host a pre-seed happy hour next Tuesday, January 14th. Our goal is to bring together the most ambitious builders in the SF startup ecosystem. We have a few spots left in our upcoming Founder-in-Residence program starting in early February. This event will be a perfect opportunity to learn more about our FIR program and meet the Afore team you'd be working with throughout the residency. Registration link to the happy hour and the upcoming FiR program in the comments! Afore Capital
-