Afore Capital

Last week we brought together some of our favorite angels and emerging fund managers for a dinner at the Afore office. A dozen brilliant minds in one room talking early-stage AI, AGI and the future of venture capital ⭐

@roblukan 👀

Sierra just killed the coding interview. Every engineering team that hasn’t caught up is about to look very out of touch

If you're sitting on an idea but haven't taken the leap yet, Afore's Founders-in-Residence program was built for exactly this moment. 10 founders at a time, 3x a year. First customers, fundraising support, and a team obsessed with getting you to liftoff. 🚀APPLY NOW. And if you want to see what Afore founders are made of in person, join us April 28 in SF for a fireside chat with Zack Peng, founder of our portfolio company Seel, and Emily Yuan from Corgi. Come hear about their journeys.🐾🦭 partiful.com/e/J8KhBfhxSJyC…

@laurayd @emily_yuan_ This is going to be a fun one!

how do SOME founders find a $100M+ ARR opportunity in a sea of AI-everything...? we are gathering a curated group of future founders next Tues for a fireside chat @AforeVC ! if youre thinking of starting a company and wondering where great ideas start... Meet @emily_yuan_ (cofounder @UseCorgi ) and Zack Peng (cofounder of Seel) & hear how they picked a big hairy industry, found a wedge, and survived to beat out incumbents partiful.com/e/J8KhBfhxSJyC…

@laurayd @physical_int @SkildAI @intrinsic @Google @Tesla_Optimus @DynaRobotics @sundayrobotics nice can the robots clean up the space after too

Hosting a dinner w/ Senior Researchers at top Physical AI labs - @physical_int, @SkildAI , @intrinsic (@Google ), @Tesla_Optimus, @DynaRobotics, @sundayrobotics etc. Founders - if youd like to pitch your company to researchers or have friends building in this space, feel free to sign up. (can be pre-idea/product - looking for entrepreneurial researchers) @AforeVC partiful.com/e/W1j9dlarXg1D…

BYOR bring your own robot

More from the Afore Spring Showcase. 16 founders, one stage, one night in our office 🚀

@gjain Proud to have backed the Noon team from day one!

Are you in product design? If so, you are all too familiar with the painful process of creating your design in Figma and then shipping it off to the front end engineering team to "try" to recreate in code. It never looks the same. Not to mention all the wasted back and forth. In the world of fast-moving AI, you can't afford to use ancient tools. Meet @noondesign -- the first dual-canvas where you design how a product looks and how it works. We at @AforeVC were lucky to back @bandiaditya, @kushagrasinha7 and the Noon team at pre-seed. Incredible what they've achieved in such a short time. Can't wait to see where they take this. LFG!! noon.design or msg me for early access!

Two nights ago at the @AforeVC Spring Showcase, a cybersecurity founder called out data leaks from investors in the room, another founder launched his first custom-fabricated robots, and two founders went from $0 to enterprise revenue in just a few weeks. 300+ 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬. 16 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐬. A mix of Afore Capital portfolio founders and our FIR and FIR U graduates. Three months ago most of them had nothing but an idea. Last night they had customers, revenue, and a room full of people leaning in. And just like that, they've graduated. So incredibly proud of our FIR U group.

People ask if we're crazy for betting on college dropouts. One of those bets just got acquired by @DoorDash for the best IRR in our fund history. Metis 🔥 Aryan started as a campus scout, that's how we first met him. We backed him as one of our first college dropout founders, very early stage. Marcus and Aayush built alongside him. Stories like theirs are exactly why we started FIR U. 𝐅𝐈𝐑 𝐔 𝐢𝐬 𝐀𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞'𝐬 2-𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐬. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐠𝐞𝐭: investment, 2 months in San Francisco, office space and 1:1 mentorship, sales, product, and fundraising support, and an investor showcase in front of 200+ VC firms. You don't need a co-founder. You don't need to drop out. You just need to be ready to build. Apply now: afore.vc/students Can't wait to see you in the office!

@charliemike_007 @GammaApp 🚀

@AforeVC @GammaApp Submitted yesterday 🤙

We heard you 👀 one more week. Applications for the @AforeVC × @GammaApp $10M Ideas to Reality Fund are now extended. If you’ve been sitting on an idea, this is your sign. We backed @GammaApp at day zero. No product, no users, just an idea. We’ve been doing this for 10+ years. We know what early looks like. New deadline: March 31 Apply: afore.vc/gamma

@Super_PK_ @GammaApp that's what we like to hear, Pawel!🤝

@AforeVC @GammaApp Submitted last night 👍

@factcheckwalk @GammaApp let's go! can't wait to see it 🚀

@AforeVC @GammaApp Thank you! I’ll sure ship something !!

Last chance!👀 Applications for the @AforeVC x @GammaApp $10,000,000 Ideas to Reality Fund close today. We're reading every single one. @AforeVC backed @GammaApp before it had a product, users, or even a name. Today it's a $2B company with 70M users. Apply now: afore.vc/gamma 🤝

4. 𝐀 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲. "Whether or not you're the winner, the world is going to be that way. For sure."

3. 𝐔𝐧𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐚𝐝𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞. Distribution, domain expertise, access. What do you have that nobody else can replicate?

We hosted a Series A fundraising panel last week. Here’s what the best Series A funds are looking for in 2026🧵: 1. 𝐃𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐯𝐞? If models get 10x better and your company disappears, you have your answer.