Anamitra Banerji

Anamitra Banerji

Managing Partner at Afore Capital

Anamitra Banerji is the Managing Partner at Afore Capital, a venture capital firm he founded in 2016 that makes pre-seed investments of $500k to $1 million.2 Prior to Afore, he was a Partner at Foundation Capital from 2012 to 2016.1

Professional Experience

• Managing Partner, Afore Capital (July 2016 - Present)
• Partner, Foundation Capital (December 2012 - June 2016)
• Product Manager, Twitter (March 2009 - July 2011)
• Director of Product Marketing & Management, Yahoo! (December 2006 - February 2009)
• Manager of Strategy & Planning, Overture (July 2004 - December 2006)
• Software Engineer, Tata Consultancy Services (1998 - 2002)
• Co-founder, Planet Health Online (October 1998 - January 2001)1

Banerji has over 20 years of experience in product management, marketing, and engineering roles at tech companies. He was employee #30 and the first product manager at Twitter, helping launch their advertising platform.2

Education

• MBA, Cornell University
• B.Sc. in Electronics Engineering, National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur1

Investment Philosophy

Afore Capital takes a conviction-based approach to investing, writing larger initial checks of $750k-$1M to pre-traction startups that they believe in strongly. Their goal is to help founders extend their runway to 18+ months to find product-market fit.2

Banerji is an investor in several AI and SaaS startups including BetterUp, Overtime, Hightouch, Iterative, Seel, HeraldAPI, Inngest and Loop AI.13