DL

Derrick Li

Principal at Afore

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Derrick Li is currently serving as a Principal at Afore Capital in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he specializes in investing in various companies at different stages, including seed and pre-seed. With a background in entrepreneurship and market research, Derrick has made significant investments in companies like Atom Finance and Retool, showcasing his expertise in identifying and supporting promising startups. Derrick's career highlights include co-founding Macro, being a Chief of Staff at Altimeter Capital, and investing in a diverse portfolio of companies such as Collective Retreats and TravelJoy, demonstrating his prowess in business planning, sales operations, and market analysis.

Work Experience 

AC

Afore Capital

  • Principal

    2023 - Current

Afore Capital is a venture fund that focuses on pre-seed stage exclusively and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

afore.vc

🚀

  • Angel

    2016

    Retool, Ollama, LangChain, Pulley, CommandBar, Nuvo, TravelJoy, Extend, Causal, Rundoo Wisely (acq. $OLO), Reflect (acq. SmartBear), Hyper (acq. Tradeshift), xCheck (acq. FLYR) and more -> derrickli.com/#investing

M

Macro

  • Cofounder

    2019 - 2022

    Automatable checklists for any human-in-the-loop process - like customer onboarding, employee onboarding, etc. https://www.producthunt.com/products/macro-3

Macro is a new approach for creating operational processes.

usemacro.com
SP

South Park Commons

  • Member

    2019 - 2020

South Park Commons is a fund and community of technologists dedicated to helping each other explore, learn, and go from -1 to 0.

southparkcommons.com

😃

  • Traveling / warehouses / yoga

    2018 - 2019

    Quit my job at Altimeter because I was antsy and wanted to travel the world.  Didn't end up traveling the world but saw a big chunk of Asia. Came back to San Francisco in late 2018 and needed a place to stay.  Found a warehouse on Craigslist and became friends with the owner - ended up investing in his cannabis startup in Puerto Rico and helped him and his partner rollup $100mm+ of warehouses in Puerto Rico. Also did plenty of yoga and worked on v1 of Macro and other projects.

AC

Altimeter Capital

  • Analyst / Chief of Staff to Brad Gerstner

    2014 - 2018

    Reached out to Brad via a cold email, convinced him to let me intern at Altimeter Boston as a 21-year-old that knew next to nothing about investing.  Next thing I knew, I was driving across the country to join Brad as he opened the Menlo office.  Was a ride of a lifetime. Forever thankful to Brad, Kevin, John, Ram, Hab, and the rest of the team for taking a chance on me and teaching me so many life lessons (in addition to what good investing looks like).

Altimeter is a technology-focused investment firm managing a public equity fund and growth-stage private equity funds.

altimeter.com
EL

Eli Lilly and Company

  • Global Marketing Intern - Alzheimer's (Solanezumab)

    2013 - 2013

Eli Lilly engages in the discovery, development, manufacture, and sale of pharmaceutical products.

Raised $6,500,000.00.

lilly.com

Education 

Investments 

Extend

Pre Seed

Total funding: $370M

Wisely

Series Unknown

Total funding amount not yet available

Neosync

Pre Seed

Total funding: $500K

Pulley

Seed

Total funding: $54M

Latest Articles 

Derrick Li

Talks about Angel investing, Investment strategies and Technology startups

Derrick Li

Talks about Angel investing, Startup investments and Investment principles

Derrick Li

Talks about Angel investments, Investing principles and Jet Insight

Articles About Derrick

Relevant Websites