Afore Capital @AforeVC
$500M venture fund focused on Pre-Seed, founded by @gjain & @anamitra. Join the FIR Residency @ https://t.co/tT9zS3peub afore.vc San Francisco, CA Joined August 2016-
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In case you haven't heard, Afore Grants are back for Fall 🚀 $1,000 non-dilutive grants + mentorship for students 21 & under. 12-week program starting Oct 1st. Applications close end of this week → grants.afore.vc
we grew from zero to $50M ARR in <2 years, profitably i've never publicly shared our tactics before it's cost us over $5M to learn what I'm about to share 800-word long post on every growth hack that printed money for us I'll cover: 1. Influencer Marketing 2. Performance…
🧨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…
Dear friends, I am incredibly honored to finally unveil what we've been working on in stealth: Accordance. When Finsam and I first started our journey bringing AI out of the research lab, we discovered an industry filled with some of the most thoughtful, principled professionals…
swing by if you're around for waterloo tech week! luma.com/85dd976r
excited to be hosting a showcase for two dozen afore portfolio companies on september 23rd showcase 5-7pm, happy hour 7-9pm, at our office in south park + virtual option less of a "demo day" and more of a "showcase your product," but some may raise soon luma.com/l2wcme96
co-hosted an @AforeVC x @BessemerVP dinner the other night for a dozen nyc-based founders and operators great group of people ex-twilio, carta, checkr, tcv, headspace, envoy, google, afterpay, etc sf dinners coming soon
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…
Putting together a small happy hour for founders interested in our upcoming FIR program. come hang! lu.ma/kdumfib4 More info on our FIR program below!
recently co-hosted an afore x greylock founder dinner with @sophia_luo_ - thanks to rho for making it happen an an amazing house in haight-ashbury one attendee mentioned they’re in a “typewriting club” where they meet on weekends to write with actual typewriters - so cool
recently co-hosted an @AforeVC x @FirstMarkCap founder dinner with @AmanKabeer11 great people and conversation, will be doing more events in nyc coming up
We built Dash. The last AI you’ll ever need. Because Dash doesn’t just chat, it actually does the work.
Great to see the growing number of great programs for students to take the plunge into entrepreneurship between this, YC, Neo, SPC, Z fellows, Leap Year and others
Great to see the growing number of great programs for students to take the plunge into entrepreneurship between this, YC, Neo, SPC, Z fellows, Leap Year and others
what I've been cooking @AforeVC lately - our debut residency program for student builders 👩🎓 has been incredible to work w 10 incredible teams, all founded by current students/dropouts/new grads more at afore.vc/students
what I've been cooking @AforeVC lately - our debut residency program for student builders 👩🎓 has been incredible to work w 10 incredible teams, all founded by current students/dropouts/new grads more at afore.vc/students

Martin Tobias (Pre-Se... @MartinGTobias
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jack mcclelland 🕺 @jackmmcclelland
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Turner Novak 🍌🧢 @TurnerNovak
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Darrel Frater ✝️ @DarrelFrater
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Mohamed @hassan_moh40530
300 Followers 2K Following 20, Techie, Start-up in progress, App in production mode, University of Minnesota Student.
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Andrew B. @a_bondale
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aaron @anOPdev
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Leo Mikoshin @ByMikosh
632 Followers 338 Following Startup Builder. Looking for pre-seed. CO-F: @AiMojik & @StartupBoyz CEO: @Bcmcreators
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Harry Stebbings @HarryStebbings
299K Followers 366 Following 🎤 @twentyminutevc, 🏦 @20vcfund, @projecteurope_😇 @perplexity_ai @linear @fyxerai @cognition @lovable_dev @airwallex @mercor_ai @getcaptionsapp
jack mcclelland 🕺 @jackmmcclelland
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Turner Novak 🍌🧢 @TurnerNovak
191K Followers 3K Following Investing @BananaCap_ Podcasting @ThePeelPod
Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi
177K Followers 3K Following Posting stuff I find interesting. Work: @btv_vc, leading pre/seed rounds of fintech cos. Always up for adventure.
Nicole DeTommaso 🪄 @nic_detommaso
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Jenny Fielding @jefielding
41K Followers 3K Following Managing Partner, @EverywhereVC investing in pre-seed founders building the future of money, health and work 🚀
Wiz 👨🚀 @WizLikeWizard
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Semil @semil
154K Followers 853 Following Investor via @HaystackVC focused on seed-stage investments // Venture Partner w/ @LightspeedVP
Shriya Nevatia @shriyanevatia
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Rex Salisbury @rexsalisbury
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palak @palak_agarwal6
673 Followers 110 Following building thoughtful products and betting on founders ⋆.✧̣̇˳· @waterloomath, @aforevc prev. @microsoft, @meetgamma
sathvik @vikvang1
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583 Followers 562 Following Co-Founder @verita_ai | @stanford CS + Product Design | prev @Mercor_ai @IDEO | Patent Holder
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Charles Javelona @charlesjavelona
787 Followers 810 Following Past: Ex COO of Tiny Mile robots. Banned by Toronto Now: Funded by @AforeVC to build my next thing. Deep learning intern
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