Afore Capital — 2022 Investments

Flyp is a cross-listing and automation app for online resellers, letting them post inventory across marketplaces like Poshmark, eBay, Mercari, Facebook, Depop, and Etsy with features such as AI-assisted listings, inventory auto-sync, auto-delisting, and analytics.

E-commerceRetail TechSaaS

JKJames Kawas(Founder)inDADani Arnaout(Founder)in

Co-investors202048 VenturesALAlante CapitalASAsymmetric Capital PartnersBABAM VenturesGAGaingelsGRGround Up Ventures+6 more

FLYP is an AI-powered managed service for company swag and branded merchandise, generating on-brand designs from a company's URL and handling on-demand production, global fulfillment, returns, and reporting.

AI & Machine LearningDirect to ConsumerE-commerceHR Tech

Lee Sieradzki(Founder)in

Co-investorsSASamos InvestmentsWIWinklevoss Capital151517ALAlante CapitalASAsymmetric Capital PartnersBABAM Ventures+4 more

Goldcast provides an AI-powered platform for creating and repurposing video content such as webinars, field events, video podcasts, and customer testimonials, using agentic workflows to turn long-form video into clips, blogs, emails, and social posts.

AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaSNew York, US

KKKishore Kothandaraman(Founder)inPSPalash Soni(Founder)inKKKishore K(Co-Founder)ASAashish Srinivas(Founder)inKCKelly Cheng(CMO)inLCLauren Creedon(Chief Product Officer)in

Co-investorsHUHubSpot VenturesNENewBuild.VCUNUnderscore VCUNUnusual VenturesARArray Ventures Management LlcKEKearny Jackson+2 more

Jabu operates a digital wallet platform for businesses in southern Africa to conduct transactions in markets with limited banking infrastructure and high cash usage.

FintechCape Town, ZA

DADavid Akinin(Founder)in

Co-investorsEXExpansion Venture CapitalFJFJ LabsKLKli CapitalY Y CombinatorBOBoxGroupD D Global Ventures+5 more

Kubecost provides tools to track, analyze, and optimize cloud spending, positioned within cloud financial management.

Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS

Bill Lobig(Leader, IBM Apptio Suite of Products)Eugene Khvostov(Chief Product Officer)Nick Bollini(Senior Enterprise Technology Executive)Alisa Velic(Finance & Business Operations Leader)Malino Oda(Head of Engineering)Ajay Tripathy(Founder)

Co-investorsVIVista Equity PartnersCOCoatue ManagementFIFirst Round Capital

Loop AI connects to the systems restaurants run — covering revenue, cost, labor, and customer data — and consolidates them onto a single governed data model with finance, marketing, and operations AI agents.

AI & Machine LearningFintechFoodTech

Vinod Pachipulusu(Founder)

Co-investorsALAlumni VenturesNYNycaNYNyca PartnersRERecall Capital

Seel is an AI-powered platform that helps global e-commerce brands and marketplaces manage post-purchase risks and returns through compliance-first solutions.

AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3E-commerceFintechInsurTechSaaSSunnyvale, US

ZPZack Peng(Founder)inZhangsinong Liu(Executive Officer, Director)BLBill Liu(Founder)inMCMo Chen(Founder)inMee-Jung Jang(Founder)

BoardJOJustin Overdorff(Director)in

Co-investorsFOFoundation CapitalLILightspeed Venture PartnersTETechstarsWIWischoff Ventures

Shortwave builds an AI-first communications app designed for effective human-AI collaboration, starting with email.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaSSan Francisco, US

ALAndrew Lee(Founder)inJDJonny Dimond(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y CombinatorFLFlybridge Capital PartnersLILightspeed Venture PartnersUNUnion Square Ventures (USV)COConvective CapitalFOFounder Collective

Zette AI partners with a network of publishers to build and monetize proprietary datasets, and supplies fact-checked, up-to-date data to enterprises for use in foundation models and real-time AI insights.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureMedia & Entertainment

YZYehong Zhu(Founder)in

Co-investorsGAGaingelsHAHalogen Ventures Management Company LlcMGMGV CapitalAGAgrolimen VenturesHYHyphen Capital