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We often get the question: how do you invest at the pre-everything, pre-pre-seed stage? 🤔 After 1,800+ applicants, we just kicked off our 7th Founder-in-Residence (FIR) cohort — with only 8 teams accepted. That’s a 0.4% acceptance rate. 💥

Thank you for having us along for a small portion of the ride, and congratulations on all the hard work, good times, sweat, and tears that went into this journey. Happy #chime #ipo day!

My better half anamitra shares the founding story of Afore Capital and building the #PreSeed category from the ground up! Crazy to believe that 9 yrs ago VCs used to run away from the word "pre seed" 😜

I moved to sf 3 weeks ago with my laptop, air mattress, and a dream. Have been sleeping on friend’s couches (huge shoutout to my amazing friends!), tryna save each cent on food and other stuff (I eat snacks all day long at Afore Capital lol). Haven’t been more broke, but also

64% of pre-seed companies Afore Capital invested in across Funds 1 and 2 skipped the seed and went straight to Series A 🤯

From a $1M pre everything round to a $10M round next. Want to raise insane series As? Afore.vc

The best angel investors don’t wait for traction. They write the first check when it’s just a crazy idea and a bold founder. These 15 did it more in 2025 so far 👇 ▫️ Gaurav Jain — Cofounder & Managing Partner, Afore Capital ▫️ Garry Tan — President & CEO, Y Combinator ▫️

"Data is the new oil"...except if the data is not really usable, then there is not much you can do with it :/ Enter Flatfile! They've spent the last few yrs focusing on this problem so you don't have to. Checkout this amazing video from David Boskovic 👇

Today, everyone gets an iOS developer... In their pocket 👖📱 For the first time in human history, you can build a mobile app on your phone... And then immediately share it with your friends. No coding, just ideas. Officially on the App Store.

🚀So much to learn for Devtools founders from Tony Holdstock-Brown • Inngest's experience building Inngest

Bold design upgrade from Gamma, very on-brand for a pathbreaking AI company

Today, we unveil the new GONDI. A full stack liquidity solution for NFTs. Collect, sell, borrow and lend. All in one place!

happy to share that the company we started 2 months ago is now backed by Afore Capital & Kayla Kavanaugh yay now back to work 🫡

You call it “debugging.” I call it patching legacy systems with chewing gum, hope, and PTSD. 😭 It’s Day 1 of #TheDailyStandup — a comic for devs who want to laugh before the pain begins. ☕💻 New panels drop weekdays at 8:30 AM PT. 👉 thedailystandup.substack.com #DevLife

🎧New podcast dropped: the Rise of Lean AI Startups + Seed-Strapping, feat: Henry Shi - co-founder of Super.com and creator of the Lean AI Leaderboard Gaurav Jain - founding partner Afore Capital We talk about how the LeanAI Leaderboard became a billboard for AI-native

For too long, data center management and operations tooling have overpromised and undelivered. As data centers have evolved to become AI factories, legacy tooling and limited innovation has meant downtime, hotspots, lack of asset visibility, and more. That ends now for teams

Wait, there are effective politicians out there?! 😛 So proud of the work Daniel Lurie 丹尼爾·羅偉 is doing. LFG!

This may be the best AI commercial we’ve ever made. We worked with one of the best directors in the world to create a wild new ad for Kalshi (Last one hit 100M views) Here’s a breakdown of how we made it in ONE WEEK (prompt included) 👇🏼🧵

in case you haven't heard we invested in a bunch of cracked student builders, many still in stealth, all building something v cool u have a unique chance to get a sneak peek at their demos next thurs 7/17 in SF! rsvp below, super limited spots available: partiful.com/e/NnTDXd2lCSUa…?

The flippening is near.