afore portfolio fall showcase

all presenting teams are planning to kick off a fundraise this fall!this year, we're also hosting a panel with speakers Anish Acharya (General Partner, A16Z), Amit Kumar (Partner, Accel), and Amber Yang (Partner, Lightspeed) to discuss the early stage AI trends they currently find most interesting. 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: investor panel + afore company presentations 7-9pm pt: happy hour more info on our fir/fir u programs - 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 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.