$500M venture fund focused on Pre-Seed, founded by @gjain & @anamitra. Just launched, a new way to reach us: $10M Afore x Gamma Fund @ afore.vc/gamma
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Meet @IgorBlinkk , 17 years young, who came from a village in Kazakhstan with less than 2,000 people.
Despite having internet speeds of ~3 Mb/s, he built multiple apps including a game that grew to 12M+ users.
When our investor found him, he traveled 2 hrs to the nearest cafe for the wifi to take the call.
He is the first person in his family to leave Kazakhstan, now in SF building a generational computer use agent data company.
This is what the FIR U cohort at Afore Capital looks like.
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We announced two pieces of news this morning, about the close of Afore’s $150M Fund III and the launch of a new product–Afore Alpha– that gives founders the meaningful funding they need, the transparency they want, and the 1:1 support they deserve. medium.com/@afore/d18f831f36… (1/x)
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Today we announced Afore Fund II, a $77 million fund, dedicated solely to investing in founders in the Pre-Seed stage. We shared some thoughts this morning on our blog medium.com/afore/introducing…. 1/6
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After 8 years of pre-seed investing, @AforeVC 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!
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1/ Announcing Angel to Fund Manager (AFM), an eight week immersion program for new fund managers raising or preparing to raise their first fund, taking place virtually from Sep 21 - Nov 13. Check out the speaker line-up at afm.afore.vc, share and sign up by Sep 6!
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A Common App for pre-seed, that’s exactly what we built. Now, an Alpha founder can apply not only to Afore but a group of 30 and growing pre seed angels and funds all at once medium.com/afore/the-common-…
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Excited to share something we've been working on for early-stage founders: Afore Zero-to-1 (Zt1), a six week journey for 100 select founders on the way to product-market fit (no cost or equity). Check it out, tag founders who'd benefit, and apply today! zeroto1.afore.vc
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Excited to host the 2nd annual @AforeVC #PreSeed summit on April 10th! Honored to have speakers like @Alfred_Lin @t_xu @sarahtavel @rebeccak46 @jyotibansalsf @aofstad @ataussig and many more. Opening up a few invites to our Twitter friends. Let us know if you'd like to attend :)
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We recently announced Afore Alpha: a best-in-class investment offer of $1M at a $10M cap for exceptional ideas, no matter how early.
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Thrilled to be closing out a spectacular year at Afore
We have been laser-focused on leading pre-seed rounds for exceptional founders since 2016; now pre-seed is more popular than ever (the only vc stage that increased in funding volume for 2021-2023)
Reflecting on 2024 and proud of our portfolio / team for achieving some exciting things:
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A lot of people ask us how to get started with angel investing. The truth is, it's not hard to become an angel! It's only hard to be a good one. We spoke with 5 successful angel investors @Delk @Aaronschwartz35 @jmj @Maiab @janamal to get their take medium.com/afore/how-to-get-… 1/10
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1/ We're 🍳#cooking this summer… #nonchalant✌🏾 if you have no idea what we’re saying...welcome to the life:
just invested in 24 #studentfounders before they've had jobs, degrees, or even dorm room keys!
a📷 on AforeVC's latest program, Founders-in-Residence University! #FIRU
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🚨 WATERLOO FOUNDERS! 🚨
We're hosting a pitch competition and yes - we want your raw ideas! Pre-product, pre-revenue, even pre-everything. If you've got a vision, we want to hear it.
10 minute pitch = chance at HUGE opportunities 👇
afore.vc/waterloo
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A huge thank you to everyone who joined us for our Founders-in-Residence & Portfolio Spring Showcase yesterday! We were thrilled to welcome 547 high-caliber attendees last night.
For those interested in learning more about the incredible teams that presented, you can find details here: bit.ly/ac-spring25
We are now accepting applications for our 7th FiR cohort, launching this May! If you know a promising founder who would be a great fit, please refer them to apply at afore.vc/residence.
For any questions, please reach out to @jackmcclelland (jack@afore.vc).
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We've always called it early, which is why we're calling web4 early - and re-branding to A4 capital.
We'll exclusively be writing $8-1/4m checks into $11-3/4m rounds from now on into the future of office supplies.
📝🚀
Excited to share our thesis with you, 🧵...
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Our founders continue to inspire us - in the past two months, Afore portfolio companies have raised over $109m combined.
This follow-on capital comes from great investors like Accel, Altimeter, Audacious, Bessemer, Inovia, Insight, Nyca, and more.
Excited to continue to support our founders as they progress. Onwards!
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@PitchBook just released a detailed analysis (the first of its kind) on the growth of Pre-Seed investing.
Analyst @alexlfrederick shares lots of interesting insights and data; worth a look if you want to understand the trends driving pre-seed: pitchbook.com/news/reports/3…
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We couldn't be more excited to make our first investment through Afore Alpha, a program we announced in May.
We're proud to be backing a team of first-generation immigrants going after a gnarly problem who don't have a website yet!
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We often get the question: how do you invest at the pre-everything, pre-pre-seed stage? 🤔
After 1,800+ applicants, we just kicked off our 7th Founder-in-Residence (FIR) cohort — with only 8 teams accepted.
That’s a 0.4% acceptance rate. 💥
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Starting a company? Exploring what's next?
Do so with other remarkable builders, within a tight-knit community.
Introducing @aforevc's Founder-in-Residence program, designed to help ambitious future founders go from idea to conviction in 10 weeks.
afore.vc/residence👇
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So many pearls of wisdom at the 2019 @AforeVC Pre-Seed Summit! Here's a short video, check it out! piped.video/watch?v=WinGaK8V…
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Curious about what the founders of Ramp, Anduril, and Faire did on day zero to set the course to build billion-dollar companies?
Come hear it live from @eglyman, @SchimpfBrian, and @MaxRhodesOK at Afore Pre-Seed Summit!
RSVP HERE
afore.registration.goldcast.…
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1/Two months in, 1,300 applications and one investment later, we’re excited to share some stats about our recently-launched Alpha program!
Founders from 40+ industries, 81 countries, 40 states, and diverse backgrounds.
Read our article here or check out a summary below 👇
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5 years ago today, Afore was born!
Here’s to all of the incredible founders, teams, and partners along the way, and to 5 more years of incredible pre-seed companies!
Happy 5th Year!
#5yearsofPreSeed
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1/ There's a lot of confusion out there about pro rata, which is probably one of the most misunderstood terms in the VC term-sheet. So here's a primer. medium.com/afore/everything-…
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We’re hosting our second Afore Alpha office hours session, this time a fireside chat with @ekaurghar and @kelseyCbishop! Kelsey will share how she raised her pre-seed round ⭐️
Join us on August 16th at 9am PT/12pm ET/4pm GMT / 9:30pm IST.
Register here: bit.ly/3bqyDhz
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Thanks @TechCrunch for the coverage of our $185m oversubscribed Fund 4 - grateful for our founders, LP's, and friends
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Have an idea and want a chance to build for $500K–$2M+ in pre-seed funding + compute credits from Afore Capital?
Join us in San Francisco on August 23, 2025, for Agent Foundry Hackathon—an invite-only dynamic 1-day sprint, where we'll challenge participants to build venture-scale products powered by ai agents co-hosted by Afore Capital & AI Valley.
What's in store:
• $5,000+ in cash prizes
• $500K–$2M+ potential pre-seed funding + $000ks compute credits from Afore Capital, AWS, msft, gcp, and more
• 100+ exceptional builders
• Networking with VCs & industry leaders
• Technical workshops & resources
apply now!
agentfoundry.org
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Afore Alpha offers founders something better: a $1M investment at a $10M post-money valuation, with no MFNs. It’s the best and most transparent option for “pre-everything” founders raising their first funding. (4/)
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We would like to welcome @laurayd as our Venture Intern. Laura was most recently at Opendoor & currently at Stanford GSB. She will be working closely with us & our founders.
She likes to play tennis but in the meantime, ask her about her shelter-in-place garden 🌱
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Founding a company at the earliest stage requires exploration, imagination, and ultimately conviction.
The Founder-in-Residence program allows the ambitious to do exactly that.
Applications for the 2nd cohort in SF due July 31st ⬇
🎯 afore.vc/residence 🎯
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Thanks to everyone who came to our Founders-In-Residence Cohort 4 Showcase event on Monday!
We had a packed house of ~150 top founders, operators, and Seed / Series A investors attending.
Our FIR teams are very early but wanted to showcase where they're headed. Details below 👇
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🎉AFM FINAL WEEK: We’re excited to share our headline speakers with everyone, capping the past six weeks of our Angel to Fund Manager program with 46 emerging managers. Sign up by Mon 6pm ET to join! forms.gle/attCSS7uvKmvRK9Z7
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"In 2018, seed activity as a % of all deals shrank from 31% to 25% — a decade low....Fortunately, pre-seed, a newer stage of investing consisting of investments of around $500,000, has emerged to support those projects." spot on @KateClarkTweets techcrunch.com/2019/01/09/th…
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Hot off the press! Our very own @anamitra shares why we started @AforeVC, what he looks for in investments and what lessons he's learned being in venture vator.tv/news/2019-10-04-mee…
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3/ ...and fresh insights hot off fund closes from @harrystebbings @alexia @rrhoover @JuliaLipton @lachygroom @lucy_guo @davefontenot @Hadley @rsg @toddgoldberg @TurnerNovak @Samirkaji @jmj and plenty of rolling fund buzz ;-) @avlok @minal_hasan @shl
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Two months ago, we launched our Common App for Pre-Seed program.
Since then, we've onboarded some of the top angels, ex-operators, and vc's investing in pre-seed - excited to announce the first four below 👇
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Lucky to have @peterfenton of @benchmark today at the @AforeVC office dropping nuggets of wisdom with portfolio founders!
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Amazing, authentic and fun - that's @kmlake and @AFriedensohn in the first session of our Pre Seed Summit.
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So if you’re a founder thinking of applying to Alpha, join us for office hours on 7/6 at 9 am PT! @anamitra and @kaylakav will share tips for building a strong application and answer your Qs live. Register here: tinyurl.com/2p9dxdw5
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So excited to kickoff Afore Zero-to-1 this week! We received a total of 652 applications and selected 146 INCREDIBLE teams 🚀 More on program takeaways & founders to come (and you can meet the teams fundraising in virtual videos @ Afore Summit Oct 20, DM for invite :)
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We’re excited to highlight four more cohort members of our Common App for Pre-Seed program, our curated network of 50+ investors that invest at the earliest stages of a founder’s journey.
Meet four incredible pre-seed angels and fund managers below 👇
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Exciting new full-time role at @AforeVC. Join our nimble, fast moving, SF based team, as our first Operations Associate. You can help us build a venture platform from the ground up afore.typeform.com/to/Xm2VpR
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Introducing Day Zero.
Curated conversations with founders, for founders about getting to product-market fit.
dayzero.afore.vc
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Hello World! Delighted to announce the launch of @AforeVC, $47M vc fund focused on pre-seed @alexrkonrad @Forbes forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/…
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why would any VC invest pre-idea, pre-revenue...pre-diploma🎓? well, student founders:
- ship fast
- don't know whats "impossible," no outdated "industry best practices"
- understand the future because they’re living it
- demanding archaic internship workflows be re-written w/ today's tools
is this you or someone you know? Apply for FIR-U Winter26 bit.ly/4heFesx
get: $20-100k, 8 wks in SF, VC Demo Day, meet your new friends, tough builders only
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At Afore, we have been laser-focused on Pre-Seed since 2016. Our Founders-In-Residence program is for ambitious people who want to “get to conviction” on an idea. If you’re hacking on something on the side, read on!
Details:
🎯 $100-500K+ in funding
🏡 build with 5-8 ambitious people
🚀 10k+ people database for design partner calls
💬 community of 120+ Afore founders
🔑 office space in South Park
Applications open now for our fourth cohort! ⬇
afore.vc/residence
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Let the countdown begin! <2 wks to Afore 3rd Annual Summit, bringing together 300+ key players in the early-stage ecosystem - founders, VCs, and LPs: afore3rdpreseedsummit.splash…. We'll also be showcasing some of our Zero-to-1 founders who are fundraising 🚀 DM for invite!
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We’re announcing four more members of our Common App for Pre-Seed program today!
When founders apply to Afore Alpha, we share applications with investors in our network where there could be a great fit.
Meet some of the top pre-seed investors in our network below 👇
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If you’re a founder and this sounds good to you, we’d love to hear from you. You can get in touch via our simple application here: afore.vc/afore-alpha. We’ll get back to you within a week. (7/)
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calm before the storm - ready for AGM!
team is good to go @gjain, @anamitra, @laurayd, @kaylakav, @jackmcclelland @JosephCardini + coffee is brewing
see you in 1 hour for @AforeVC #PreSeedSummit - hundreds of founders, investors, and believers under one roof 🤩
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It is one of venture’s biggest privileges when you get a chance to invest in a company with an exceptional team, product and mission, all in one package. Congrats @modernhealthco on the Series B! Here's why we invested at the pre-seed: medium.com/afore/modern-heal…
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Lots of gratitude to founders for putting @gjain, I, and @AforeVC on their list of go-to, first-check investors alongside a phenomenal group company builders 🙏🏾 techcrunch.com/2020/07/14/an…
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Our co-founder @gjain shared 3 things we look for in pre-seed investments. Spoiler alert: it's not the resume! 👇
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Beyond excited to kickoff @AforeVC 3rd Annual Pre-Seed Summit on Oct 20th with Power Ladies @stitchfix founder @kmlake and @modernhealthco founder @AFriedensohn! Check out the full agenda at afore3rdpreseedsummit.splash…
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Amazing fireside chat with Andrew Miklas from @pagerduty and @gjain
Few tickets left for the fireside chat we are hosting with the co-founder of @pagerduty Andrew Miklas next Tue, 5pm. RSVP here: aforehappyhourwithpagerduty.…. We'll talk about his journey of starting the company in his mom's basement to IPO! First come first serve
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Stoked for one of our first investments, @petal, that just announced a $30M Series B to bring innovation to the credit card industry!
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Founders of @modernhealthco share their perspective on “How To Revolutionize Mental Health Care And Stay Sane Doing It”.
Supported by @kleinerperkins @PrecursorVC and @AforeVC among others.
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We're Hiring!
Well - not us, but we want founders to pitch you on joining a stellar team on the ground floor. This is your opportunity to meet 1:1 with founders of 🚀 growth companies from our portfolio like @modernhealthco and @flatfilers
Apply below!
bit.ly/2UT8uQ3
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Afore Mentioned, our nice looking new Medium publication is now live.
medium.com/afore
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✨We're excited to share the 46 emerging fund managers completing the Angel to Fund Manager program: afm.afore.vc/meet-the-group Meet them, pitch them, or fund them 💸🔥
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We're hosting a showcase for people interested in what our portfolio companies are up to
The main event is in SF, and we have RSVP options for virtual / "can't attend but send the list"
If you're in NYC and want to attending a watch party, RSVP here: lu.ma/hn6v4bwq
hosting a showcase for @AforeVC's recent founders-in-residence + portcos in late march
last year, afore-backed founders raised $300m+ from benchmark / accel / lightspeed / khosla / menlo / general catalyst / etc
rsvp here (sf irl + virtual options): lu.ma/afore-spring-showcase
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Anddddd That's a Wrap!!!
Thanks to everyone who joined us today!
See you next year!!
#PreSeedSummit
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Demystifying the Monday Partner pitch, thanks to @Alfred_Lin @ataussig
@jennylefcourt. #PreSeedSummit
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Congratulations to @overtime for all the success including the $23M Series B from @sparkcapital’s @bijan
NEW ALERT! More dunks, touchdowns, nutmegs and Victory Royales. We got the bag!
medium.com/@tfadp/whats-next…
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New blog post: The Three Stages of Startup Risk. Understanding risk, options, and why Afore is upping the Pre-Seed ante medium.com/afore/the-three-s…
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🎙🌱Exciting news! We are launching "The Pre-Seed Show," on YouTube tomorrow. It is a show where we focus on the crazy/exciting/stressful early days of a company’s journey as founders go from rough ideas to a company with traction. Join host @anamitra and special guest @Arobichaux, co-founder and CEO of BetterUp as they unpack the untold stories of what it was like before BetterUp became massively successful (they’ve raised over $500M!). Subscribe and tune in for the premiere. #ThePreSeedShow
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Rocketships can’t fly on just a few gallons of gas. And startups can’t bring a product to market with just a few months of runway. Founders need fuel, not fumes. (2/)
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Happy Monday! Today we’re announcing another four members of our Common App for Pre-Seed program, where we share top founders from Afore Alpha (who apply on our website) with our curated network of 50+ investors.
Meet four spectacular pre-seed investors below👇
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Proud to be early backers of @inngest! Congrats on your Series A.
Building backends as fast as vibecoding frontends 😎
Big news.
We’re excited to announce our $21m Series A!
Inngest now powers 30B monthly executions, helping product teams build reliable products efficiently, at scale.
As AI moves to production, the need for fast, durable workflows is essential.
Read the announcement post👇
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Thrilled to launch Afore “Go-To-Market School” - a unique academy helping startups get traction faster.
GTM School will feature exclusive sessions with founders and early employees that have scaled companies today worth > $30B ⬆️
More info: 👇
afore.vc/gtm-school
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Congratulations to portfolio co @flatfilers on their $7.6M seed round led by @TwoSigmaVC! Data onboarding is a major challenge for businesses, accounting for 50-80% of the effort and cost involved in onboarding a new customer. **They are hiring** 👏🚀🍾🙏techcrunch.com/2020/06/10/fl…
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Congratulations @GammaApp and @thisisgrantlee and the whole team on continuous growth - a masterclass in staying extremely customer and product focused while surfing the AI tidal wave.
To the next chapter!
Today, as shared by The New York Times, we’re announcing two things:
>Our Series B at a $2.1B valuation led by @sarahdingwang at @a16z.
>Reaching $100M ARR, profitably, with a team of just 50 people. That's $2M ARR per employee.
PowerPoint was invented before the first website, before the Game Boy, before the Berlin Wall fell.
But Gamma, and our 70 million users, are proof that an AI-native company can disrupt a category everyone assumed was won.
30 million gammas are created every single month, as we fight hard to become a new standard for communication.
But we’re not stopping. We’re expanding our plans for businesses. We’re building out a full visual storytelling platform. And today, we’re releasing our API to the general public. So you can plug Gamma into wherever work happens.
And to celebrate, we’re also sharing our first ever prompt guide backed by research into how our most successful users use Gamma to automate presentations, websites, and content in minutes.
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New @AforeVC post. The Entrepreneur Expectation Gap medium.com/afore/the-entrepr…. Great advice from top VCs.
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Excited for @hungrysohan @64json and their public launch of @FlintK12_!
Flint lets K-12 teachers create classroom activities, worksheets, quizzes, and handouts in seconds, saving them 10+ hours a week 🔥
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Congrats to @jdmcd at @Rubie_HQ on the $3.2m raise announcement!
Setting up ERP's, CRM's, or other complex software involves tedious configuration and long implementation times. Rubie utilizes AI to automate manual configurations tasks.
Excited to have led the round 🎉
I was 10 years old when I reverse engineered my first computer system.
It started with my elementary school loaning me a computer to make them a website - and ended with the IT team questioning me about how I got admin access to the district’s file server 😅
Something in my brain clicked at this moment - systems are learnable, malleable, and imperfect. This compulsive need to figure out how things work never went away, and I’ve been fascinated with reverse engineering things ever since.
10-year-old Jimmy would be so pumped for today’s announcement: I’ve raised $3.2m for my new company, Rubie!
Naturally, reverse engineering is a big part of our product - I want to take a moment to tell you about why what we’re building is special, and why you should join us if you’re an engineer in NYC. (careers.rubiehq.com)
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Afore Capital is hiring!
We are looking for a high-energy / "roll up your sleeves" kind of person for the Ops Director role -
angel.co/company/afore-capit…
If you, or someone you know, could be a fit, please apply! 🙏
#Jobs #startups #VentureCapital
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Happy Friday! Thrilled to officially announce another four more members of our Common App for Pre-Seed program.
Founders that apply to Afore Alpha (on our website) get the chance to be shared with our curated network of 50+ investors.
Meet four incredible pre-seed investors 👇
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"It appears that pre-seed rounds are more founder-friendly, with median equity acquired in 2017 sitting at just 12.4% compared to 22.2% in all angel & seed rounds" incredible insights on changes in early stage from @PitchBook's latest valuations report: files.pitchbook.com/website/…
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Excited to announce our biggest investment to date in @SINAICarbonTech that's helping companies decarbonize. They are building the "Anaplan for sustainability teams."
medium.com/afore/why-afore-i…
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This week, the team is mapping out customer introductions, and 1:1 individualized bespoke support for each team.
🧑💻 500+ applicants.
🌎 9+ cities
✨ 100+ interviews.
The upcoming group of Founders-in-Residence are exceptionally impressive.
We'll get back to everyone by Sunday.
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A round-up of all the exciting Afore portfolio news from the past month mailchi.mp/06530a26bb47/news…
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Thanks to everyone who came out to our pre-seed mixer in NYC last night - and to our amazing panelists @jsawadd / @jdmcd / @TBurton86 / @torreyleonard
If you missed it - we're recruiting new founders-in-residence, learn more here: afore.vc/residence
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Congrats to portfolio co @Winnie on raising their seed! If you are a parent, this app is a must-have techcrunch.com/2018/06/25/wi…
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The '996' debate misses the entire point.
@mercor_ai’s CTO @adarsh_exe: "We don't mandate hours. The early team worked 7 days because they were obsessed."
⚡️His reality check on remote work? "Zero of my best ideas came from scheduled meetings. Every single one came from unexpected office conversations."
Burnout comes from working hard on things you don't believe in.
Magic comes from working hard on a mission you can't stop thinking about.
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But too often, founders can’t get the fuel they need. They’re underfunded and undervalued by many early-stage investors, and end up raising a few months of runway and giving up substantial ownership, often with strings attached. It’s a bad trade. (3/)
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🧨announcing @AforeVC 's 8th Annual Pre-Seed Summit, Oct 30 in SF --> hear from:
@mercor_ai co-founder CTO Adarsh Hiremath
@GustoHQ co-founder CEO @joshuareeves
@ClickHouseDB @ceo_clickhouse Aaron Katz
alongside Afore GPs @anamitra @gjain on the State of #Preseed Investing in 2025.
this invite-only event is a gathering of early-stage minds to chat #startup battle stories and market heat from pre-seed to breakout.
📆Thursday Oct 30, 1-7pm PT
📍SF + live stream
📩 Request to join → drop a comment below for invite in your DMs.
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Congratulations to the @HightouchData 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!
I'm amped to share that @HightouchData has raised an 80M Series C at 1.2B led by @SapphireVC! We’re building the first agentic marketer. Come join us 🚀
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Thrilled to see @vibe_bio – founded by @aloktayi + @joshuaforman – officially launch today to build a global community of patients, scientists, and partners around its mission to cure rare diseases. Give them a follow and learn more by going to vibebio.com/
Today, we’re officially launching with $12 million in funding, two partnerships with patient advocacy organizations, and a growing community ready to build a new way to pursue cures to rare diseases vibebio.com/
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What does it take to raise a Seed/Pre-Seed in 2022?
A thread...
#PreSeedSummit
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Proud to welcome another four incredible investors to our Common App for Pre-Seed program at Afore!
We share top founders we see with our curated network of 50+ pre-seed investors, hopefully increasing the odds of founders getting funded :)
Below are four pre-seed gurus 👇
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Our own @gjain and his Pre Pre Pre seed founder, tuning in to listen to @lauraspiekerman talk about being a Mom, founder, and what it's meant to share her journey with family.
Parents are superstars.
#PRESEEDSUMMIT
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We launched Alpha to increase the quality of options founders have on Day Zero - a $1M investment at $10M post.
For more info on what we look for, check out our Office Hours session here: tinyurl.com/2p9dxdw5
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You can also follow them😉 @AmberIllig @TessaFlippin @rohinip @abarrallen @PickensAllison @kkgraz @BHolls1 @aroetter @sierralnp @MeganAnanian @Just_Kate @TZhongg @AmoilsNisa @BigMekaStyle @SeanMahsoul @AlysonDenardo @dividebyzerovc @PoetryAaron @karine_hsu @Bosefina @zainjaffer
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Calling all founders!
Reminder to join us tomorrow at 9am PST for Alpha Office Hours with @kaylakav + @anamitra!
We'll cover how we think about applications, tips and tricks for applying, and some FAQs - followed by Q&A.
Register here to join: tinyurl.com/2p9dxdw5
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2/ Many people came together to help put @AforeVC in business, and we believe that many of you will similarly benefit learning from the greats - including @joshk @annimaniac @jeff @briansin @tonsing @hunterwalk @satyap who started & lead iconic funds...
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Two of Afore’s four NYC portfolio companies (@petal and @overtime) made this list of 10 NYC startups to watch in 2019: inc.com/guadalupe-gonzalez/n…
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We back that investment with the extensive resources and dedicated 1-on-1 support that have helped so many of Afore’s portfolio companies (like @modernhealthco , @BetterUp , @petal , @overtime , to name just a few) build, grow and raise more quickly. (5/)
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