Investor profile

Afore Capital

Venture Capital · Founded 2016 · San Francisco, United States

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A venture fund that focuses on pre-seed stage exclusively and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area

108 portfolio companies Venture Capital · $1.8B invested · 163 investments · Investor rank #1,718 · Last investment 7/2026

Portfolio companies ↑ 110% 5y

108

Decacorns

Thoroughbreds

Portfolio analysis

Where Afore Capital's portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 108 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount

USA94
Canada7
India2
Singapore2
Mexico1
Namibia1
UAE1

By sectorCount

Enterprise Software31
Fintech15
Health12
Marketing8
Jobs Recruitment7
Media7
Education6
Transportation6
Security5
Food4
Legal3
Robotics3

By stage enteredCount

Seed87
Series A20

By growth stageCount

Early Growth57
Breakout Stage39
Late Growth12

Portfolio market map

Inside Afore Capital's portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 108 tracked.

Portfolio founders

Where Afore Capital's portfolio founders come from.

169 founders across the 100 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.

LocationCount

United States130
Canada15
Singapore5
United Kingdom5
India4
Argentina3
United Arab Emirates2
Israel1
Namibia1
Peru1

UniversityCount

Stanford University12
Harvard Business School8
University of California, Berkeley7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology5
Columbia University4
Georgia Institute of Technology4
Princeton University4
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania4
Harvard University3
Imperial College London3

Previous companyCount

Alphabet | Google11
McKinsey & Company7
Amazon5
Afore Capital4
GLISPA GmbH4
Microsoft4
Optimizely4
Uber4
Bain & Company3
Boston Consulting Group3

How Afore Capital stacks up

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Key people

Key people at Afore Capital.

Source: Dealroom next-gen API — investor team endpoint.

Every figure on this page is sourced live from the Dealroom next-gen API. Sections v1 shows that the API does not yet expose — shareholding-based holdings, Power-Law rankings & vintage time-series, entity-filtered news, and market sentiment — are omitted here rather than sourced elsewhere.