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Afore Capital
San Francisco, United States
Afore Capital is a San Francisco‑based $500M venture fund that exclusively invests at the pre‑seed stage. It backs product‑oriented founders building software companies, typically writing checks between $500k and $2M to...
Portfolio
108+
Employees
50+
Founded
2016
AUM
≈ $500.0M
Investment focus
Stages
Pre-Seed
Industries
Software Only
Geographic scope
United States
Fund details
Funds
Fund IV
Vintage 2025 • $185.0M
Fund III
Vintage 2022 • $150.0M
Fund I
$47.0M
Check sizes
Min: $500.0K
Typical: $1.5M
Max: $2.0M
Sources
Afore Capital
Afore Capital is a San Francisco‑based $500M venture fund that exclusively invests at the pre‑seed stage. It backs product‑oriented founders building software companies, typically writing checks between $500k and $2M to help founders get their first institutional round. The firm seeks high‑conviction, early‑traction opportunities where it can add founder‑level support.
Portfolio
108+
Employees
50+
Founded
2016
AUM
≈ $500.0M
Funds
Fund IV · Vintage 2025 • $185.0M
Fund III · Vintage 2022 • $150.0M
Fund I · $47.0M
Check Sizes
Min: $500.0K
Typical: $1.5M
Max: $2.0M
Stages
Pre-Seed
Industries
Software Only
Geographic scope
United States
Sources
Showing 24 of 105 matched portfolio companies
Agency AI offers AgentOps.ai, a platform designed for the development of AI agents in a controlled environment. This solution addresses the challenges of reliability and scalability in AI agent deployment, enabling developers to create robust applications efficiently.
Funding: $2.6M
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645 VenturesAfore Capital
645 VenturesAfore Capital
Funding: $2.6M
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AgentOps provides an observability platform for AI agents and LLM applications, offering an SDK that captures every LLM call, tool use, and inter‑agent interaction. The platform visualizes these events, enables point‑in‑time replay, tracks token‑level costs across 400+ providers, and supplies audit logs and enterprise compliance features.
SummitSpark Partners
This platform uses AI to automate document review for law firms, surfacing key evidence and generating timelines. By automating tagging and categorization, the platform helps legal teams quickly identify critical information within large document sets.
Andrena offers residential high‑speed internet service with plans up to 1 Gbps, priced from $30 per month. Customers can activate service in under three minutes without a technician visit, and the company bills users on a monthly subscription basis. The model focuses on delivering affordable, secure broadband to multi‑device households and small businesses, emphasizing low cost, fast deployment, and reliable connectivity.
40+
3K+Approximate amount of employees
Funding: $44.3M
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Dragonfly
Dragonfly
Funding: $44.3M
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Arrow is a healthcare technology company that facilitates real-time, precise payments between healthcare providers and payers through automated claim operations and predictive analytics. The platform addresses the inefficiencies of the current payment system, ensuring faster transactions and reducing errors in claims processing.
Clear Haven Capital Management
Baselayer provides an automated platform for Know Your Business (KYB), risk assessment, and fraud management, utilizing real-time data validation and predictive modeling to enhance business verification processes. The platform addresses inefficiencies in manual reviews and the risk of overlooked fraud indicators, enabling financial institutions to streamline operations and reduce potential losses.
Funding: $20.0M
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Picus Capital
Picus Capital
Funding: $20.0M
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Basis provides an all-in-one platform for financial reporting, budgeting, and planning, enabling finance teams to automate data collection and create real-time dashboards. This technology addresses the inefficiencies in manual reporting processes, allowing organizations to generate accurate forecasts and insights quickly, thereby enhancing decision-making and operational efficiency.
beatBread provides a platform for artists, labels, and distributors to access and compare various funding offers for their music assets. The service allows users to analyze different deal structures, including term lengths and recoupment rates, to secure capital while maintaining control over their catalogs. This marketplace facilitates smarter financial choices by presenting multiple funding options from beatBread and its network partners.
Funding: $34.0M
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Deciens Capital
Deciens Capital
Funding: $34.0M
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BenchSci provides a neuro-symbolic AI platform, ASCEND, designed to accelerate drug discovery by decoding complex disease biology. The platform utilizes a Biological Evidence Knowledge Graph (BEKG) that integrates public, licensed, and proprietary client data to ensure evidence-backed scientific reasoning. This system delivers AI copilots and co-scientists that help biopharma R&D teams move from hypothesis to successful experiments faster.
Funding: $174.2M
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Generation Investment Management
Generation Investment Management
Funding: $174.2M
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BetterUp provides an enterprise platform that combines human and AI coaching to develop employee potential and drive business performance. The platform offers tailored coaching solutions for leadership development, manager effectiveness, and organizational resilience. This integrated approach aims to boost productivity, accelerate growth, and reduce employee turnover across the workforce.
Funding: $214.7K
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Funding: $214.7K
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Blooming Health provides an AI-assisted engagement platform that enables aging care providers to communicate with older adults through voice calls, text messages, and emails in over 80 languages. The platform addresses the challenge of connecting underserved communities with essential aging services by facilitating personalized, timely interactions and data-driven insights for improved care coordination.
Funding: $4.2M
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Afore CapitalCrossbeam Venture Partners
Afore CapitalCrossbeam Venture Partners
Funding: $4.2M
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Boxbot utilizes automated induction and ejection systems along with artificial intelligence to optimize parcel storage and sorting, achieving a storage density twice that of conventional systems. The technology addresses inefficiencies in package sorting for delivery vehicles, resulting in a 500% improvement in operational efficiency and reducing vehicle load times to under 15 minutes.
Funding: $37.0M
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Playground Global
Playground Global
Funding: $37.0M
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Provides a technology-driven supply chain finance platform that integrates procurement, fulfillment, and working capital solutions for enterprises. It streamlines cross-border trade and turnkey project execution, enabling businesses to reduce costs, improve operational efficiency, and access a global network of suppliers and logistics partners.
Funding: $9.9M
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Funding: $9.9M
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Bulletin is an online marketplace that utilizes data-driven insights to curate personalized product assortments for retailers, enhancing their inventory selection based on historical sales and customer engagement metrics. This platform connects retailers with vetted global brands, streamlining the wholesale purchasing process and offering flexible payment terms to improve cash flow.
Candor is a platform that enables remote teams to document feedback, track progress, and celebrate achievements through structured communication tools like 1-on-1s and public shoutouts. This approach enhances team engagement and productivity by fostering genuine connections and providing real-time insights into individual and team performance.
Funding: $4.9M
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Contrary
Contrary
Funding: $4.9M
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Cercli is a human resources and payroll platform tailored for the Middle East and North Africa, enabling businesses to manage employment data, payroll, and reimbursements in multiple currencies from a single secure source. The platform ensures compliance with local regulations while automating payroll processes, reducing human error, and providing customized financial reporting.
Funding: $4.5M
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Funding: $4.5M
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ChannelApe provides a platform for strategic inventory operations that integrates sales, fulfillment, finance, and customer service data, enabling brands to manage their supply chain efficiently. By streamlining inventory, order, and fulfillment processes, it reduces manual operations and enhances decision-making, ultimately driving profitability for direct-to-consumer businesses.
Funding: $9.4M
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Funding: $9.4M
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CivilGrid provides a cloud‑based platform that consolidates utility maps, as‑built data, and agency records into a searchable database for civil engineering projects. The system enables engineers to query underground infrastructure, identify impacted utilities and responsible agencies, capture geotagged field observations, and manage request and permit workflows in a single, SOC 2‑compliant environment, streamlining coordination and reducing design rework.
Funding: $5.7M
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Funding: $5.7M
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ConverzAI provides a Voice AI platform that deploys Virtual Recruiters to automate candidate sourcing, engagement, and assessment for staffing agencies. This technology reduces time-to-placement by 90%, enabling recruiters to increase placements while optimizing their workflow and marketing spend.
Funding: $22.2M
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Foundation Capital
Foundation Capital
Funding: $22.2M
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Dagster Labs provides a cloud-native orchestration platform that enables data engineers to manage complex data pipelines using software-defined assets and a declarative programming model. This solution enhances data pipeline velocity and reliability through integrated lineage, observability, and first-class testing, addressing the challenges of data complexity and operational inefficiencies.
Funding: $49.2M
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Georgian
Georgian
Funding: $49.2M
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Dash is an AI-powered automation platform that streamlines business workflows by integrating with existing tools. It uses natural language processing to automate repetitive administrative tasks and data retrieval across applications, enhancing team productivity.
Datacurve provides validated code data through a rigorous engineering review process, ensuring accuracy and reliability for software development teams. This approach addresses the common issue of data integrity in coding, reducing errors and enhancing project efficiency.
Funding: $500.0K
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Funding: $500.0K
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Daylight Health provides integrated virtual mental health support by coordinating care between coaches, therapists, and a patient's primary physician. Services are delivered via secure video calls with flexible scheduling options for various life challenges. Billing is managed through the patient's existing doctor's office, ensuring insurance coverage continuity.
Develop Health utilizes AI to automate medication prior authorization by pre-checking patient plans and medical histories, significantly reducing form completion time by over 80%. This technology addresses the inefficiencies in managing complex medication reimbursement processes, leading to higher approval rates and improved patient access to necessary medications.
Funding: $1.8M
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Afore CapitalSouth Park Commons
Afore CapitalSouth Park Commons
Funding: $1.8M
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