Gautam is an experienced early-stage investor having made 26 seed-stage investments through Founder Collective. He was one of the first Product Managers for Android (led the Nexus product line); joined the platform when they had less than 1M total users (today >2.5B). He was recognized with the Founders Award, highest employee achievement award at Google, for his contributions to Android. Gautam also co-founded Polar in 2007, leading native ads platform.
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San Francisco, California
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$1M - $3M
Rounds their fund invests in
Pre-Seed
Seed
Rounds their fund leads
Pre-Seed
Sectors their fund invests in
Enterprise
Fintech
Health
Ecommerce
Web3 / Crypto
AI
Cybersecurity
Proptech
Logistics
Future of Work
Marketplaces
Gaming / VR
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USA
Canada
Africa
Asia-Pacific
LatAm
India
Europe
Israel
ANZ
MENA
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Afore Capital
About the Fund
Afore has $300M in AUM across 3 funds and 75+ portfolio companies - almost everyone was pre-traction, pre-revenue, and “pre-obvious” when Afore invested. They are focused on helping companies accelerate their trajectory by taking them straight to Series A as quickly as possible (the majority of Afore portfolio companies jump from a $1M raise to a $5 - 10M raise in 12 - 18 months).
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