jack mcclelland

Afore Capital is a Pre-Seed VC with $500 million in AUM co-founded by Anamitra Banerji & Gaurav Jain. We support product-oriented founders building software companies at the very earliest stages. Our sweet spot is investing $1-2m+ into founders first institutional round. We can lead this round alongside high value angels. At Afore, we believe that before theres a company, before theres a business, theres a product-oriented founder leading by product. The products are often raw, sometimes just rough concepts requiring a lot of imagination. They are pre-traction and pre-obvious. But they come from founders with non-obvious insights and infectious ambitions. We started Afore to back these founders at the pre-seed stage exclusively, on day zero of their journey. We bring with us 16 years of product experience and 7 years of institutional investing experience.

Afore Capital is a Pre-Seed VC with $500 million in AUM co-founded by Anamitra Banerji & Gaurav Jain. We support product-oriented founders building software companies at the very earliest stages. Our sweet spot is investing $1-2m+ into founders first institutional round. We can lead this round alongside high value angels. At Afore, we believe that before theres a company, before theres a business, theres a product-oriented founder leading by product. The products are often raw, sometimes just rough concepts requiring a lot of imagination. They are pre-traction and pre-obvious. But they come from founders with non-obvious insights and infectious ambitions. We started Afore to back these founders at the pre-seed stage exclusively, on day zero of their journey. We bring with us 16 years of product experience and 7 years of institutional investing experience.

Powered by General Catalyst, GC Venture Fellows provides students the capital they need to get started and provides access to a community of peers, experienced mentors, alumni and investors to help take their startups to the next level. Decisions are led by a team of university students dedicated to encouraging tech entrepreneurship & forging a community of student founders. Formerly Rough Draft Ventures

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We lead investments in pre-seed and seed stage B2B software companies that transform how business is done. We support founders with the only things that matter in the early days: sales acceleration, operational execution, and capital strategy. Apply for funding here: bit.ly/laconiapitch