Gaurav Jain on Building $500M Fund, Missing Ramp and Backing Irrational Founders
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- July 17, 2026
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- Aug 23, 2026
Discusses Gaurav Jain has seen more than 10,000 startups, built the world's largest pre-seed fund, backed star…
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Gaurav Jain has seen more than 10,000 startups, built the world's largest pre-seed fund, backed startups like Gamma, Hightouch and Goldcast and has missed Ramp(you can't be a great investor without having a great anti-portfolio :))A decade ago, when Gaurav started Afore Capital, pre-seed wasn't even a recognized category. Today, pre-seed is what some of t…
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Gaurav Jain has seen more than 10,000 startups, built the world's largest pre-seed fund, backed startups like Gamma, Hightouch and Goldcast and has missed Ramp(you can't be a great investor without having a great anti-portfolio :))A decade ago, when Gaurav started Afore Capital, pre-seed wasn't even a recognized category. Today, pre-seed is what some of the world's most ambitious startups raise as their very first institutional capital.When Gaurav Jain and Anamitra Banerji started the firm ten y