Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Go from idea to conviction.
A residency for the most ambitious founders in the -1 to 0 stage.
Build alongside a network of prospective customers.
Flexible capital, designed to fuel your company.
A residency for the most ambitious founders in the -1 to 0 stage.
Build alongside a network of prospective customers.
Flexible capital, designed to fuel your company.
Join Afore Capital as a Founder in Residence
don’t “boil the ocean.” Many founders try to tell investors everything they want to do now and in the future—in other words, “boiling the ocean.” Your job is to take all of the information about your company and pull out only the “nuggets” that will make investors want to put their money in your “gold mine.”
Judy Robinett • Crack the Funding Code: How Investors Think and What They Need to Hear to Fund Your Startup
ODF helps more people
start the best companies
Go from idea to conviction — together
ODF25 is an intense one-week in-person experience focused on meeting collaborators, exploring ideas, and gaining conviction.
start the best companies
Go from idea to conviction — together
ODF25 is an intense one-week in-person experience focused on meeting collaborators, exploring ideas, and gaining conviction.
- 1 week IRL in San Francisco
- 80-100 participants (>50% technical)
- Alumni (3k+) Community Platform
- >$800k in perks (Mercury, AWS, Str
ODF | From idea to conviction
After an entrepreneur has incubated a product in the innovation sandbox, it has to be reintegrated into the parent organization. A larger team eventually will be needed to grow it, commercialize it, and scale it.
Eric Ries • The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
2. If you are in the Pre-seed stage, the first thing is to go out to raise funds and prove the value of the group. In fact, some of the founders we work with have started lowering the valuations to find the funding they need over the next two to three years. In this case, you just need to raise money and go back to work.