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.
Afore Capital is a venture fund that focuses on pre-seed stage exclusively and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Investor
2018
Led pre-seed round, Board
Modern Health is a mental well-being platform for companies offering therapy, coaching, and self-guided courses.
Raised $167,400,000.00 from Battery Ventures, Founders Fund, Kleiner Perkins, Lachy Groom, Felicis and 01 Advisors.
Investor
2019
Hightouch is a data platform that helps sync customers' data from the data warehouse to CRM, marketing, and support tools.
Raised $92,200,000.00 from Databricks Ventures, ICONIQ Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Amplify Partners, Y Combinator, The New Normal Fund, Bain Capital Ventures, Afore Capital, Barr Moses and Alex Pall.
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
The best way for enterprises to collect, map, clean, transform and convert the data that powers your business.
Raised $94,665,000.00 from Two Sigma Ventures, Afore Capital, Marbruck, Google Ventures, Gradient, Workday Ventures, Tiger Global Management and Scale Venture Partners.
Investor
2020
Led pre-seed round, Board
Goldcast is a virtual event platform that allows enterprises to create online events.
Raised $38,000,000.00 from Unusual Ventures and Westbridge Capital.
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
Founder Collective is a seed-stage venture capital fund that helps entrepreneurs build their businesses.