Afore Capital

I’ve been in SF for a couple days at the Afore Capital scout retreat. After my first month at Stanford, I finally have some time to reflect on the past few months and how I got here. What a wild summer: 🏆 5x Hackathon Wins 💼 Interned @ EstateParrot (AI for Real Estate) 🔬 Research @ Stanford (PinCS Lab) 🚀 Started scouting Afore Capital 🤖 Founded the Stanford Chapter of The AI Collective 🌍 Grew @shrish_is to 1.5K+ followers and 1M+ views across platforms Met some of the coolest people (founders, VCs, CEOs, cracked engineers) and got a lot more technical (can actually code without Cursor now). As weird as startup culture can be, I’ve come to love it. Everyone’s dreaming big, building fast, and taking wild bets, and that’s contagious. Excited for the next 4 years at Stanford: more people to meet, more things to build, more stuff to learn, and more late-night ideas. ✌️ BTW—if you want to fast-track into the startup world, apply at afore.vc/students. Tell them Shrish sent you.

the best line on my resume isn't even on my resume. It's the company I started. Not because it "succeeded" by traditional metrics. But because it's proof that I cared about something enough to drop everything and build it. Your resume shows where you've been. Your startup shows who you are. Here's the problem: Most college students wait for permission. The "right time." More experience. A safety net. But Afore Capital's FIR program flips that script. We'll back you with $20K–$100K, fly you to San Francisco, and put you in a room with founders who are actually building. → No busy work → No performance reviews → Just 60 days to turn your idea into something people want Applications just dropped and interviews are rolling out right now for our winter cohort. Comment your EMAIL and I’ll send you the application link with a referral. #Startups #Founders #VentureCapital #Entrepreneurship #CollegeStartups #TechFounders #StartupAccelerator #StudentFounders

Forget the internship. There has never been a better moment to build something generational with AI — and if you're in college and know you’re built for this, Afore Capital will bet on you. Afore will fly you to San Francisco and give you up to $100K to spend two months turning your idea into a company. You’ll also get office space in the center of the city, weekly mentorship from successful founders, warm intros to top VCs, and a community of killers building with you. No revenue required. No product required. Just an idea and the transformational ability to make it a reality. Applications are open and interviews are already moving. Drop your email and I’ll send the application link with a referral! #founders #startup #sf #sfbuilders #builders #tech #studentfounders

The way people discover and learn is shifting to AI chat. For brands, that means not just seeing how you show up, but owning it. I’m excited to announce Petra Labs, where I’m beyond lucky to be solving this problem with the most talented people I know, Ramie and Rishi, backed by the incredible team at Afore Capital. 

how do we invest pre-idea, pre-revenue, pre-traction...pre-diploma? 🎓 what we learned funding 24 founders-in-residence university builders this year from 2k+ applicants: ❓ why student builders? they move faster, haven’t been taught what’s ‘impossible’ yet or conditioned by ‘industry best practices’ that don’t apply anymore. they understand the future because they’re living in it & demanding archaic internship workflows be re-written w/ today's tools. 💡 what does ‘pre-everything’ actually look like? We’ve written checks to builders who showed up with a Notion doc, a hackathon project that broke, or just raw technical ability and hunger. What they all had: unshakeable conviction that the AI revolution is happening now, and the era of sitting in class while the world changes is over. 📌 Winter 2026 FIR-U applications now open: link in comments. No product required. No pitch deck needed. Just you and 56 days to prove it. $20K-$100K+ check, 8 weeks in SF, demo Day with 200+ VC firms and real funding to accelerate post idea-validation. if this sounds like you...let us know! and tag the builder who ships on weekends, codes past 2am, and who thinks “I can build this” not “should this exist”?

Excited to announce we're opening access to Olostep! As AI becomes the new Web user, it increasingly requires dynamic web data and knowledge. Olostep is building the infrastructure that connects AI to the web, enabling it to deliver value to humans. AI systems have intelligence; Olostep provides knowledge. What we've built: Olostep API — developers can search, navigate, and structure web data for their AI applications at scale. Custom Parsers return data in your preferred schema, compatible with your backend, in a single API call. Olostep Agent — A no-code interface that automates entire research workflows through natural language prompts by assembling API endpoints on your behalf. One prompt can replace hundreds of human hours, delivering results directly to Google Sheets, CSV, Excel, email, or your database. You can also feed it internal knowledge for added context. How customers are using Olostep:  → Ground AI products in real-world data and facts—power AI automation platforms, coding agents, and more with accurate web knowledge  → Recruiting: Source specialists for reinforcement learning and labeled datasets  → Web monitoring: Track inventory, pricing changes, and job postings in real-time  → SEO & GEO: Monitor brand visibility across search engines  → Research automation: Deploy agents that handle complete web research and data pipeline workflows  → Data enrichment: Automatically enhance spreadsheets and CRMs with up-to-date information Olostep delivers the most reliable (99.5%), cost-effective (up to 70% cheaper), and flexible web data infrastructure for AI, proven at scale and trusted by leading startups and scaleups worldwide. Get started for free at www.olostep.com Or email info@olostep.com to access the Agent for automated web research and data pipelines. Extremely thankful to our incredible team, customers, and investors who've believed in us since day one