Afore Capital

Type

Venture Capital, Accelerator/Incubator

Status

Active

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

132

Average round size

7M

Portfolio companies

77

Rounds per year

16.50

Lead investments

8

Follow on index

0.39

Exits

3

Stages of investment
Seed
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningHealth CareEnterprise SoftwareCRM

Summary

Afore Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2016. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco. The venture was found in North America in United States.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Swept, Honeycomb, Visor. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 1 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Internet, Developer Tools. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top activity for fund was in 2017. The real fund results show that this VC is 2 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The typical startup value when the investment from Afore Capital is 5-10 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually.

The fund was created by Anamitra Banerji, Gaurav Jain. The overall number of key employees were 2.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6 partakers. Despite the Afore Capital, startups are often financed by Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania, Y Combinator, The Gramercy Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Y Combinator, Story Ventures, Sam Hodges. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Threshold, Ludlow Ventures, Freestyle Capital.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistHardwareCybersecurityBlockchain/Crypto/Web3AR/VR Show 9 more
Stage focus
SeedPre-Seed
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
500K — 2M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 150000000
Fund raised date
2022-05-04

Analytics

Total investments
132
Lead investments
8
Exits
3
Rounds per year
16.50
Follow on index
0.39
Investments by industry
  • Software (42)
  • Financial Services (14)
  • Information Technology (13)
  • Internet (13)
  • FinTech (13)
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Investments by region
  • United States (111)
  • Canada (5)
  • Namibia (2)
  • Argentina (1)
  • India (1)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
4
Avg. valuation at time of investment
101M
Group Appearance index
0.92
Avg. company exit year
4
Strategy success index
0.60

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