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Snapshots from over 1,300 Afore Alpha applications

Snapshots from over 1,300 Afore Alpha applications

The team at Afore launched the Alpha program in May 2022, and we’re excited to see founders from all kinds of industries, geographies, and…
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Jul 13
Afore is Tripling Down on Pre-Seed

Afore is Tripling Down on Pre-Seed

With a new $150 million Fund III in hand, we’re launching a superior way for founders to raise their first funding.
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May 4
Building the infrastructure for the resale economy, meet Flyp

Building the infrastructure for the resale economy, meet Flyp

At Afore, we are big fans of companies that both do good for society and are great businesses in and of themselves. Flyp is a perfect…
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May 3
JABU: Our first (of hopefully many!) investment in Africa

JABU: Our first (of hopefully many!) investment in Africa

It’s not very often that in the first meeting you learn about how the founder was kidnapped at gunpoint when he was 11! Meet David Akinin…
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May 3
Seel — Questioning the status quo

Seel — Questioning the status quo

The status quo in insurance is to cover catastrophic risks such as earthquakes and car crashes. These events don’t occur very often but…
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Jan 13
Herald — Enabling Consumer Grade Commercial Insurance

Herald — Enabling Consumer Grade Commercial Insurance

Today Herald announced that they’ve raised $8M to build digital infrastructure for commercial insurance. Earlier this year we were…
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Dec 15, 2021
Hightouch founders and entrepreneurial instincts

Hightouch founders and entrepreneurial instincts

Hightouch announced their Series B financing round today. You can read about it on Hightouches blog here and on TechCrunch here…
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Nov 17, 2021
Introducing Day Zero

Introducing Day Zero

Today, we’re launching Day Zero, a project we’ve been excited to unveil for a few months. It’s a series of conversations with builders that…
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Oct 5, 2021
Why Afore Is Betting Big On Fixing Climate Change

Why Afore Is Betting Big On Fixing Climate Change

Our largest ever investment in SINAI Technologies is a direct result of our belief that climate change is the greatest existential threat…
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Nov 3, 2020
Key Design Learnings for early stage startups to build exceptional products

Key Design Learnings for early stage startups to build exceptional ...

Written by Vijay Viswanathan, Zero-to-1 founder.
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Oct 9, 2020
Zero-to-1 Founder Perspectives: Building a Consumer Product for Early-Stage Startups, lessons from…

Zero-to-1 Founder Perspectives: Building a Consumer Product for Ear...

Learnings from B2C product panelists from Andrew Ofstad (Co-Founder of Airtable), JD Ross (Co-Founder of Opendoor), and Sara Mauskopf (CEO…
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Oct 5, 2020
Zero-to-1 Founder Perspectives: B2B Product Learnings from Founding Slack, Segment, and Firebase

Zero-to-1 Founder Perspectives: B2B Product Learnings from Founding...

By Ashley Barrington, co-founder and CEO of MarketPearl.
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Oct 2, 2020
Will Zoom Be The Next Android, Or The Next BlackBerry?

Will Zoom Be The Next Android, Or The Next BlackBerry?

The age of Coronavirus has made the videoconferencing platform a household name. But if Zoom wants to keep its lead, it needs to learn…
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Jun 24, 2020
Everything You Wanted To Know About Pro Rata (But Were Afraid To Ask)

Everything You Wanted To Know About Pro Rata (But Were Afraid To Ask)

Investors at Sequoia, Haystack, Homebrew, Initialized Capital, and Afore explain the surprisingly complex reality of one of VC’s least…
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Jan 30, 2020
Modern Health raises $31M to democratize access to mental health

Modern Health raises $31M to democratize access to mental health

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…
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Jan 15, 2020
What It Takes To Raise a Pre-Seed Round in 2020

What It Takes To Raise a Pre-Seed Round in 2020

Got 20 minutes? Afore Capital’s Gaurav Jain talked to The Twenty Minute Podcast about the state of pre-seed and VC.
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Jan 6, 2020
How To Get Started In Angel Investing

How To Get Started In Angel Investing

Five successful angels tell Afore Capital how they got started, what they look for in a start-up, their biggest lessons, and other secrets.
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Nov 14, 2019
How To Succeed As An Enterprise Startup

How To Succeed As An Enterprise Startup

Founders at Retain.ai, MemSQL, Flatfile and Tulip Retail talk to us about what they wish they’d known when they first launched their…
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Oct 1, 2019
Introducing Afore Capital’s $77 Million Fund II

Introducing Afore Capital’s $77 Million Fund II

We have raised $124 million in three years to invest in Pre-Seed stage founders
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Sep 18, 2019
How To Revolutionize Mental Health Care And Stay Sane Doing It

How To Revolutionize Mental Health Care And Stay Sane Doing It

Modern Health co-founders Alyson Friedensohn and Erica Johnson tell Afore Capital how they are scaling up mental healthcare so that…
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Aug 28, 2019
Real Talk With Dan Porter of Overtime

Real Talk With Dan Porter of Overtime

The CEO of Overtime tells us what it takes to challenge ESPN for the crown of world’s biggest sports network.
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Jul 22, 2019
12 Key Insights From The 2nd Annual Afore Capital Pre-Seed Summit

12 Key Insights From The 2nd Annual Afore Capital Pre-Seed Summit

Pre-seed is the new seed.
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Jun 19, 2019
12 Key Insights From The 2nd Annual Afore Capital Pre-Seed Summit

12 Key Insights From The 2nd Annual Afore Capital Pre-Seed Summit

Pre-seed is the new seed.
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Jun 19, 2019
January Newsletter: Pre-Seed Diligence Framework, Portfolio in Focus, and More from Afore

January Newsletter: Pre-Seed Diligence Framework, Portfolio in Focu...

We are so excited to welcome in the new year at Afore and hope this note finds your 2019 off to a wonderful start. To kick things off…
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Jan 22, 2019
October Newsletter: Interviews, Advice, and Updates from Afore

October Newsletter: Interviews, Advice, and Updates from Afore

We hope everyone had an amazing summer and you are settling into autumn. Afore has been busy working with our portfolio and has exciting…
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Jan 22, 2019
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