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Since 2021, Afore Capital has backed 2 African startups across 6 disclosed funding rounds totaling $81.4M, most heavily in Kenya and Fintech.
Afore Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2016, specializing in pre-seed investments. The firm manages a $500M fund and invests $500k to $2M+ in pre-traction companies across various industries, often before they even exist. Based in San Francisco, Afore Capital pioneered the pre-seed category and remains the largest by dollars invested. It also runs programs like Founders-in-Residence and Afore x Gamma Fund to support early-stage founders. Afore Capital has backed JabuPay (also listed as Jabu), a fintech company in Namibia digitizing business cash and enabling free supplier payments. Investments include a $15.0M Series A in May 2022 and Seed rounds of $3.2M each in January 2021 and 2022, totaling $21.4M across three rounds. The firm focuses on Seed and Series A stages in fintech within Namibia. Co-investors include FJ Labs, Kli Capital, Y Combinator, Quiet Capital, and others. Afore Capital's portfolio companies have raised over $3B in follow-on funding.
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Afore Capital has backed 2 African startups across 6 disclosed funding rounds tracked on Liners, totaling $81.4M since 2021.
Mostly Seed: 4 of its 6 tracked rounds are at that stage, followed by Series A (2).
Its tracked rounds lean toward Fintech (6).
Afore Capital most often shares rounds with FJ Labs (3 shared deals), Xfund (2 shared deals), Kli Capital (2 shared deals).
Afore Capital backed JabuPay, a fintech company in Namibia that digitizes business cash and enables free supplier payments. Investments include a Series A round of $15.0M in May 2022 and two Seed rounds of $3.2M each in January 2021 and 2022.
