afore portfolio fall showcase
⚠️ note: registration and approval is required for entry, we will only admit entrance to confirmed and approved attendees
we are currently very full on in-person space for this event, but please feel free to attend virtually, or consider attending our pre-seed summit below:
friends of afore - we're delighted to invite you to get a first look at some afore's founders-in-residence and portfolio companies
many of these founders may raise in the next six months, not all will be raising now, but we wanted to let them share what they're working on and meet some friends of afore
you can rsvp above for the showcase, happy hour, both, virtual attendance, or just to get the list of companies presenting
schedule:
5-7pm pt: presentations
7-9pm pt: happy hour
more info on our fir program - we invest ~$50-$500k into 5-10 teams over three cohorts per year who work out of our sf office for 2 months: https://www.afore.vc/residence
we also run a student-focused fir program, learn more about it here: https://www.afore.vc/students
we are finalizing the list of founders presenting and will share this with approved attendees shortly
for any questions about this event, contact jack: [email protected] | (650) 863-8151
afore is a ~$500m aum pre-seed fund backing exceptional founders. we were started in 2016 by the first product managers at twitter / android nexus, and helped launch the pre-seed category; since then, our portfolio companies have raised over $3 billion from top funds. we lead pre-seed rounds for software companies with checks up to $2m (in a concentrated way, ~10 checks per year), and also run a founders-in-residence (fir) program + fir university program.
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