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Afore Capital

25 Taylor St, San Francisco, California, 94102, United States

Overview

Afore Capital backs product-centric founders at the pre-seed stage exclusively. The investment team brings 16 years of founding product experience (Android and Twitter) and 7 years of institutional investing experience (Founder Collective and Foundation Capital). Their sweet spot is the ~$1M pre-seed round, where they can lead the round as an institutional investor alongside high value angels.

Total investments
112
Lead investments
14
Investments · 12mo
14
Active investors
8

Sector focus

  • Financial Services
  • Venture Capital
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Investment portfolio

  • Hypercubic

    Participated · Seed · Aug 2026

    Hypercubic develops a platform intended to make mainframe modernization a repeatable, software-driven process rather than a bespoke human undertaking. The company says it has made several breakthroughs over the past year aimed at enabling its platform to understand, rebuild, and verify critical legacy systems at higher velocity. Early customer engagements reportedly show dramatic compression of parts of the modernization lifecycle. Hypercubic was founded by Sai Gurrapu and Aayush Naik and is actively hiring across the team. Financially, the company recently raised a $5.3 million seed round led by CIV, with a broad group of angel and operator investors participating. No revenue, user, or valuation metrics were disclosed in the announcement.

  • Flourish Health

    Participated · Series A · Jul 2026

    Flourish Health delivers intensive in-home mental health care for children and young adults through psychiatrist-led Care Pods composed of a child and adolescent psychiatrist, a licensed therapist, a patient guide, and a family guide. The company built a proprietary technology platform that integrates patient touchpoints, EMR and prescribing capabilities, workflow automation, team collaboration, and AI to support engagement and coordination while clinicians make clinical decisions. Flourish specializes in three clinical populations: children with externalizing behaviors, young people with multiple suicide attempts or suicide-related hospitalizations, and patients with complex needs and family situations often turned away by other clinics. Studies run with multiple major health plans report large reductions in hospitalization (70–96%), residential treatment (69–90%), and sustained decreases in higher levels of care post-discharge (80–95%). Flourish commits to beginning care within one week of referral, reports 92% month-over-month retention during its 12-month programs, and says those programs cost less than one month of inpatient treatment.

  • Petra Labs

    Participated · Seed · Jul 2026

    Petra Labs offers an end-to-end AEO service for enterprise brands, pairing a proprietary measurement platform with an embedded team of experts who run strategy and execution. The company builds custom last-mile attribution models to connect AI search visibility to AI-referred traffic and revenue, allowing brands to allocate spend based on revenue impact. Petra targets large enterprise customers whose AEO initiatives produce complex data and require hands-on execution. Founders Sami Akkawi (CEO), Rishi Penmetcha (CTO) and Ramie Khoury (COO) bring backgrounds in strategy consulting, large-scale data systems and enterprise growth. Petra was founded in 2025 and is based in New York City. The company emphasizes serving as an extension of customers’ teams to own AI search business outcomes end-to-end.

  • Neural Drive

    Led · Seed · Jun 2026

    Neural Drive builds a low-cost AI wearable brain-computer interface that captures neural biosignals using a small set of electrodes placed above one eye and behind each ear, and self-calibrates in as little as 10 seconds. The device lets users select on-screen options (e.g., “Food”, “Help”, “I love you”) and control apps like WhatsApp and smart home devices, and is priced at about S$2,500 compared with existing eye-gaze systems that cost S$10,000–S$25,000. The founding team includes Mohammed Khambhati Huzefa and co-founders Kaushik Manian, Raymond Ng and Nyan Lin, and the product has undergone more than 380 iterations. Neural Drive has won multiple competitions, including S$150,000 at the Entrepreneurs Next Star & Million Prize Global Challenge and top placements at TechCrunch Startup Battlefield, LotusHacks, and university hackathons. The company is preparing for an 18-month clinical trial with Tan Tock Seng Hospital involving 30 patients across inpatient, outpatient and home settings and is in early talks with U.S. Veterans Affairs hospitals. It is also exploring expansion into consumer VR/AR applications and developing neural research kits with academic partners to build longitudinal datasets.

  • Hobbes

    Participated · Seed · Apr 2026

    Hobbes is an AI-powered conversational agent that runs personalized, self-improving product demos 24/7, allowing buyers to explore a product on their own schedule while helping sales teams start warmer conversations and close deals faster

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