GJ

Gaurav Jain

Managing Partner at Afore Capital

San Francisco, California

Overview

Work Experience

  • Co-founder & Managing Partner

    2016 - Current

    $500M fund to support product-oriented founders at the very earliest stage (pre-seed). Our sweet spot is the $1-3M round, where we can lead the pre-seed round as an institutional investor alongside high value angels. We look for companies that are product-led, and are built by founders with non-obvious insights and infectious ambitions. Both my co-founder and I were founding Product Managers (Twitter and Android Nexus) so we are comfortable getting involved at ground zero.

  • Investor

    2018

    Led pre-seed round, Board

  • Investor

    2019

  • Investor

    2019

    Honored to re-invest at pre-seed in the founders of Skip The Dishes (largest food delivery company in Canada)

  • Investor

    2019

    Lead pre-seed round, Board

  • Investor

    2020

    Led pre-seed round, Board

  • Investor

    2016

    First institutional round

  • Investor

    2019

    Led pre-seed round

  • Investor

    2020

    Led pre-seed round

  • Principal

    2012 - 2016

    Investments where I was directly involved (in most cases sourced and/or led diligence): Cruise (acq. by General Motors for $1B+) Socure (most recent round at $4.5B) Firebase (acq. by Google) Skip The Dishes (acq. by Just Eat, $150M) Airtable Smyte (acq. by Twitter) Dia&Co Ionic Rebag

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