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Afore Capital

Founders Anamitra Banerji Gaurav Jain

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Total investments 150
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$6M
Portfolio companies 85
Rounds per year 18.75
Lead investments 26
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.41
Exits 3
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • Internet
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Herald

Developer APIs
Insurance
16 Oct 2024 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Cercli

Business Development
Software
$4M03 Sep 2024 Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Agency AI

$2M28 Aug 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Tezi

Human Resources
Recruiting
Software
$9M31 Jul 2024 Menlo Park, California, United States

Thoughtly

Software
$3M04 Jun 2024 New York, New York, United States

Rubie

Enterprise Software
Software
Software Engineering
$3M01 Jun 2024 New City, New York, United States

Baselayer

$6M01 May 2024 New York, New York, United States

Loop

$6M12 Mar 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Knock

$12M15 Feb 2024 Brooklyn, New York, United States
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Gamma Launches With $7M in Seed Funding

– Gamma is a productivity suite building a replacement for slide decks.
– The company launched with $7M in Seed funding.
– The round was led by Accel, with participation from Eric Yuan, Jeff Weiner, Script Capital, South Park Commons, LocalGlobe, Afore and Hustle Fund, as well as founders at Airtable, Patreon, Segment, Honey and Optimizely.
– The company intends to use the funds to continue to build out the team and the product.

HoneyBee raises millions to make financial wellness a workplace benefit

– HoneyBee, a startup that aims to help companies provide access to financial support to their employees, announced it has raised $5.7 million in equity in a round led by FFVC.
Resolute Ventures, Afore Capital, Rebalance Capital, K50 and Financial Venture Studio also participated in the financing, along with two-time NBA all-star Baron Davis.

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Total investments 150
Average round size 6M
Rounds per year 18.75
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 26
Follow on index 0.41
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.89

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Herald

Developer APIs
Insurance
16 Oct 2024 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Cercli

Business Development
Software
$4M03 Sep 2024 Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Agency AI

$2M28 Aug 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Tezi

Human Resources
Recruiting
Software
$9M31 Jul 2024 Menlo Park, California, United States

Thoughtly

Software
$3M04 Jun 2024 New York, New York, United States

Rubie

Enterprise Software
Software
Software Engineering
$3M01 Jun 2024 New City, New York, United States

Baselayer

$6M01 May 2024 New York, New York, United States

Loop

$6M12 Mar 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Knock

$12M15 Feb 2024 Brooklyn, New York, United States
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