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Afore Capital
Venture capital · San Francisco, CA, United States · North America
Afore Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in pre-seed companies. It also runs a Founders-in-Residence program for founders with ideas who are unsure whether they are VC-ready.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordspre-seedfounders-in-residenceearly-stageproductventure capital
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Or find every investor that fitsAfore Capital lists 98 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 23 funding rounds, 3 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 59% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (26%), Fintech (11%) and Healthcare & Biotech (10%). 85% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Y Combinator, Founder Collective and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Afore Capital, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Afore Capital's whole history. Rounds on record name 22 companies; its own site lists 98. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 9% |
| Seed | 59% |
| Series A | 32% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 1 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 1 | 0 |
| '25 | 8 | 1 |
| '26 | 13 | 2 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 95th | 98 companies |
| Recent activity | 97th | 13 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 80th | 68% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 64th | 5% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 37th | 26% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 88th | 7 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 26% | 18% |
| Fintech | 11% | 12% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 10% | 15% |
| Enterprise Software | 8% | 8% |
| Media & Entertainment | 5% | 4% |
| Education | 5% | 7% |
| Space & Defense | 5% | 3% |
| Consumer | 5% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Y Combinator | 12 |
| Founder Collective | 4 |
| Lightspeed Venture Partners | 4 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 3 |
| Banana Capital | 3 |
| Golden Ventures | 3 |
| Greycroft | 3 |
| Picus Capital | 3 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers9193%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company77%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Afore Capital head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Funds
as stated on its siteRecent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Afore Capital| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 26 Oct 2026 | Pre-Seed | |
| 22 Oct 2026 | Seed | |
| 24 Sept 2026 | Pre-Seed | |
| 22 Sept 2026 | Series A | |
| 27 Aug 2026 | Series A | |
| 19 Aug 2026 | Seed | |
| 22 Jul 2026 | Seed | |
| 23 Jun 2026 | Seed Led |
Round details for Afore Capital
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Afore Capital's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
98 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AgentOps provides a developer platform for building AI agents and LLM apps. | AI & Machine LearningDeveloper Tools | Portfolio page | ||
| Andrena provides high-speed internet services to residents, buildings, and businesses. | Enterprise SoftwareConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Arrow provides a financial operating system for healthcare that streamlines revenue cycle management using collaborative AI | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides a private AI agent that helps users manage their schedules, tasks, and communications across various platforms. | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Baselayer provides business identity verification, risk, and fraud services to various industries, including finance and commerce. | FintechCybersecurity | Sept 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| Baselayer provides business identity verification, risk, and fraud services | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides financial advances to artists, labels, songwriters, and other rights holders in the music industry. | Enterprise SoftwareFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| BenchSci provides a research environment platform for scientists to unify data, models, and workflows for R&D purposes. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| BetterUp offers a platform for workforce development and performance evaluation | Human ResourcesAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Boxbot makes logistics operations more productive, intelligent, and resilient by introducing automated, high-density storage that unlocks new AI-driven capabilities. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| BulkMRO provides procurement, fulfillment, and project management services to businesses. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Cercli provides an AI-native platform for HR and recruitment | Human ResourcesAI & Machine Learning | Oct 2025Series A | Funding round | |
| CivilGrid provides a platform for managing and mapping site data for construction and infrastructure projects. | ConsumerIndustrial & Manufacturing | Aug 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Colare provides technical assessments for screening hardware talent | Human ResourcesEducation | Oct 2026Pre-Seed | Funding round | |
| Converzai provides automation solutions for staffing firms to increase recruiter efficiency and enhance candidate experience. | Human ResourcesAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Coverflow provides an AI operating system for insurance brokerages to manage client workflows and operations | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Jul 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Datacurve pioneers research and data collection infrastructure to teach AI how to perform tasks that humanity has long endured. | AI & Machine LearningEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Daylight Health provides in-network coaching and therapy services to patients through their doctor's office. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company automates prior authorization and predicts medication coverage for prescribers using artificial intelligence. | Healthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning | Aug 2025Series A | Page + round | |
| Fabric provides a cloud-based workspace that stores and manages files, photos, videos, notes, and meetings, with integrated AI capabilities. | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 13 Nov 2026- Site
- afore.vc
- Last read
- 13 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 14 Feb 2018
- Companies checked
- 98
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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