Afore Capital

What is Afore Capital?

Founded in 2016, Afore Capital is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California, specializing in the pre-seed and seed stages of investment. They focus on supporting product-oriented founders who are in the very earliest stage of their startup journey.

With an anti-thematic investment approach, Afore Capital is not constrained by specific sectors but instead invests across a wide range of industries such as Software, BioTech, Business Solutions, FinTech, Retail, CleanTech, A.I., HealthTech, Blockchain, Web Security, Developer tools, GovTech, Logistics, Medical Devices, Robotics, Aerospace, DeepTech, Healthcare, Nanotechnology, Consumer goods, and sectors with a focus on women.

Their investment amounts range from a minimum of $500,000 to a maximum of $1,200,000 with a sweet spot of $750,000 for the capital they deploy. Afore Capital is known for taking a high conviction stance in pre-traction, pre-everything companies, emphasizing their commitment to support founders from Day 0 with proven product and investment expertise.

They aim to build a strong foundation for their investee companies and offer resources like a Founder-in-Residence program to assist early-stage founders in refining their ideas to be venture-capital ready. With $77 million in assets under management, Afore Capital stresses the importance of not just avoiding what can go wrong with startups but also looking for what can go right, acting as risk-takers alongside the entrepreneurs they back.

They pride themselves on working quickly to make investment decisions and on being product people who can see and support a founder's vision, even when the idea is still in its nascent, 'sushi-grade' form.

What they say:

We invest in Pre-Seed and Seed rounds in companies fundamentally augmenting how the future of society will operate. We are anti-thematic by design and hyperfocused on accelerating the 0-to-1 journey.