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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.

Our mission is to help more people start better startups. ODF is a program we created over four years ago to help those at the exploration stage of starting a company. So far, weve helped over 1000 companies get started and raise over $2 billion. Starting a company is really exciting, but there are so many things you need to figure out in order to actually build one. - "Who might I start my company with?" - “What might we build?” - “Who might our initial customers be?” - “Should we raise funding soon, or should we try to bootstrap in the beginning?" These and many more questions are what we refer to as the "missing pieces"—the things you need to figure out to know if starting a company is right for you and what company you should ultimately build. With ODF, we bring together 80 to 100 people who are at the very same stage as you. Theyre all exceptionally talented, and theyre all trying to figure it out together.

Stealth AI Startup is a private community for founders, researchers, and engineers building next-generation AI companies before public launch. Founders tag themselves here to: 🔹 Gain credibility while working in stealth 🔹 Connect discreetly with other AI founders 🔹 Receive inbound interest from early-stage VCs 🔹 Join curated founder-only circles & discussions 🔹 Access hiring pipelines for early team building If youre building an AI startup in stealth, add your profile to the community and tag yourself to this page. Your stealth journey deserves visibility — without revealing your idea. Join the world’s largest AI stealth founder network.

Founded in 2006, the Columbia Venture Community is a private, global network of more than 7,500 Columbia University alumni, students, and staff who are interested in all aspects of entrepreneurship, tech, and innovation. Our mission is to foster entrepreneurship within the Columbia innovation ecosystem by facilitating communication, providing access to resources, and creating a vibrant and supportive community. To this end, we promote in-person and virtual events in cities around the globe, including happy hours, startup pitch events, incubation seminars, speaker panels, webinars, dinners, and more. Individuals must possess a Columbia email address (UNI) to join our official member platform: https://www.meetup.com/ColumbiaVC/ CVC is classified as a Shared Interest Group​ (SIG) and endorsed by Columbia University. To apply for membership: https://www.meetup.com/ColumbiaVC/ Website: http://columbia.vc Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/columbiavc