| Date | Title | Description |
| 06.04.2026 | Noon Raises $44M in Seed Funding | Noon, a San Francisco, CA-based AI design startup, raised $44m in seed funding.
Backers included Chemistry, First Round Capital, SV Angel, Scribble Ventures, Elevation Capital, and Afore Capital, as well as Katie Dill (Head of Design, Strip... |
| 06.08.2025 | August Raises $7M in Funding | August, a NYC-based AI platform provider for midsize law firms, raised $7M in funding.
The round was led by NEA and Pear VC, with participation from Afore Capital, and angel investors, including Gokul Rajaram, Geoff Charles (Chief Product O... |
| 05.08.2025 | Legal tech startup August raises $7 million from New Enterprise Associates, Pear VC | Synopsis
Afore Capital, several law schools, angel investors, including Gokul Rajaram, and senior executives from companies like Ramp, OpenAI, and Bain Capital Ventures participated in the funding round of the startup, which is building AI ... |
| 23.07.2025 | Olto Raises $5.1M to Transform B2B Sales with AI, Starting with the World’s First AI Demo Engineer | Former Amazon Execs Apply Consumer Personalization to B2B Sales Demos, Backed by Nexus Venture Partners and TheGP
SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–July 23, 2025–
Olto, the AI demo engineer transforming how B2B teams demo and sell software, has... |
| 23.07.2025 | AI startup Olto raises $5.1 million from Nexus Venture Partners, The General Partnership | Synopsis
Afore Capital, Recall Capital, Ligature, FirstHand, and senior executives from companies like Amazon participated in the round. The fresh funds will be used to build new AI agents and scale its operations. Olto, which currently ser... |
| 17.07.2025 | Coverflow raises $4.8 million | Coverflow, Coverflow
Founded: Headquarters: San Francisco, California, United States
Total Funding: $4.8M
See full company profile "> which offers a platform that automates policy analysis, data entry, and workflow management for in... |
| 12.03.2025 | Podqi Secures $3.2 Million to Revolutionize IP Protection | In the bustling tech landscape of San Francisco, a new player is making waves. Podqi, an innovative startup, has just secured $3.2 million in seed funding. This investment is a beacon of hope for brands grappling with the murky waters of in... |
| 11.03.2025 | Podqi Raises $3.2MM Seed Round Led by General Catalyst to Accelerate IP Protection with AI | Podqi, the automated IP protection platform transforming how brands defend their digital rights, today announced it has raised $3.2 million in seed funding. The round was led by General Catalyst, with participation from Soma Capital, Afore ... |
| 01.03.2025 | Koala and Videobot: Pioneering the Future of Customer Engagement | In the bustling world of tech startups, two companies are carving out their niches with innovative solutions that promise to reshape customer engagement. Koala and Videobot are not just riding the wave of digital transformation; they are cr... |
| 01.03.2025 | Koala: $15 Million (Series A) Raised For GTM Engine | Koala, the rep-first GTM engine that turns your best sales signals into plays, announced the closing of its $15 million Series A funding round, bringing total funding to $20 million, including an earlier seed round. The round was led by CRV... |
| 12.02.2025 | Keragon Secures $7.5M for AI-Powered Healthcare Automation Platform | What You Should Know:
– Keragon, an AI-powered, HIPAA-compliant automation platform for healthcare, has raised $7.5 million in an oversubscribed seed funding round led by Upfront Ventures, with early investors Afore Capital, Focal, and 25m ... |
| 13.11.2024 | Neo Financial: Canadian FinTech Company Raises $360 Million (Series D) | Neo Financial – a leading Canadian financial technology company – announced a C$360 million Series D funding round, consisting of C$110 million of equity and C$250 million of debt. This funding round includes investments from several Canadi... |
| 24.10.2024 | Highnote Raises Additional $2.5M in Funding | Highnote, a NYC-based audio collaboration platform, raised an additional $2.5M in funding.
Backers included Dropbox Ventures, Afore Capital, Character Capital, Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, and Precursor Ventures, as well as angel investors fro... |
| 20.09.2024 | "We Got Funded!" UAE-Based Cercli's US$4 Million Seed Round Marks Silicon Valley-Based Afore Capital's Debut MENA Investment Launched by Akeed Azmi and David Reche, Cercli enables MENA busin... | Cercli, a UAE-headquartered payroll and employee data platform, has raised US$4 million in a seed round led by Afore Capital, a Silicon Valley-headquartered pre-seed venture capital (VC) fund. With this, Afore Capital has made its debut inv... |
| 06.06.2024 | AI Startup Thoughtly Lands $3M for Contact Center Innovation | Thoughtly, a rapidly growing startup building AI voice agents for contact centers, has secured a $3 million funding round with participation from Afore Capital, Greycroft, Expansion, and others. With their innovative approach to customer ph... |
| 29.09.2023 | How to pitch me: 7 investors discuss what they’re looking for in September 2023 | Last week at TechCrunch Disrupt (recaps coming soon), I spent less time than usual in the green room where staff and speakers work behind the scenes and walked around Moscone Center.
More than 10,000 people passed through the conference hal... |
| 04.05.2022 | Afore’s fresh $150 million fund includes a plan to standardize the pre-seed world | Venture firm Afore Capital first splashed on the scene with the aim to institutionalize that angels, friends and family round. Now, after investing in over 80 companies over five years, the eight-person team has landed on a more specific wa... |
| 04.05.2022 | Super rich individuals are private equity’s growing LP base | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
It’s been happening over a decade. Rather than settle on endowments or pension funds, the biggest... |
| 02.06.2021 | Iterative raises $20M for its MLOps platform | Iterative, an open-source startup that is building an enterprise AI platform to help companies operationalize their models, today announced that it has raised a $20 million Series A round led by 468 Capital and Mesosphere co-founder Florian... |
| 16.12.2020 | Hightouch raises $2.1M to help businesses get more value from their data warehouses | Hightouch, a SaaS service that helps businesses sync their customer data across sales and marketing tools, is coming out of stealth and announcing a $2.1 million seed round. The round was led by Afore Capital and Slack Fund, with a number o... |
| 01.06.2020 | Is Zoom the next Android or the next BlackBerry? | Gaurav Jain Contributor
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| 04.10.2019 | Meet Anamitra Banerji, Managing Partner at Afore Capital | Founded in 2016, Afore Capital makes pre-seed investments of between $500k and $1 million
Venture capital used to be a cottage industry, with very few investing in tomorrow's products and services. Oh, how times have changed!
While there ar... |
| 18.09.2019 | Afore Capital raises second pre-seed venture capital fund | As expectations from seed investors intensify, a new stage of investment has established itself earlier in the venture-backed company life cycle.
Known as “pre-seed” investing, one of the first legitimate outfits to double down on the stage... |
| 10.01.2019 | The pre-seed diligence framework | Gaurav Jain Contributor
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| 28.01.2018 | Five myths of pre-seed investing | Anamitra Banerji Contributor
Anamitra Banerji is a co-founder of Afore Capital.
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Pre-seed has risen in prominence in recent months due to the growing gap between what founders a... |
| 02.10.2017 | Afore Capital Closes First Pre-Seed Venture Capital Fund, at $47M | Afore Capital, a San Francisco, CA-based pre-seed focused venture capital firm, closed its first institutional fund, at $47m.
LPs included blue-chip institutional investors.
Co-founded by Anamitra Banerji and Gaurav Jain, Afore Capital is a... |
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| 19.09.2015 | How To Be A VC Without Any Capital | Gaurav Jain Contributor
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| 13.09.2015 | You’ve Only Got One Shot At Building A Consumer Unicorn | Gaurav Jain Contributor
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| 06.09.2015 | APIs Are The New FTEs | Gaurav Jain Contributor
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| 23.01.2015 | There’s A Big Difference Between Using Facebook ‘At Work’ And ‘For Work’ | Gaurav Jain Contributor
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| 19.04.2014 | Messaging Is A Winner-Take-Some Market | Anamitra Banerji Contributor
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