Derrick Li
Principal @ Afore
San Francisco Bay Area
Invests in
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Investments
Extend
Total Funding: $370M
Wisely
Total Funding:
Neosync
Total Funding: $500K
Pulley
Total Funding: $54M
Subframe
Total Funding:
Momentum
Total Funding: $18M
Milk Video
Total Funding: $2M
CommandBar
Total Funding: $24M
Adapt API
Total Funding:
Rundoo
Total Funding: $18M
Reflect
Total Funding: $8M
Artifact
Total Funding: $12M
Junip
Total Funding: $31K
Atom Finance
Total Funding: $13M
Causal
Total Funding: $24M
xCheck
Total Funding:
Cover
Total Funding: $110M
Plan
Total Funding: $1M
Retool
Total Funding: $140M
Collective Retreats
Total Funding: $3M
TravelJoy
Total Funding: $10M
Hyper Travel
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Work Experience
2023
Principal
2023
2016
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
2019 - 2022
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
2019 - 2020
Member
2019 - 2020
2018 - 2019
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.
2014 - 2018
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).
2013 - 2013
Global Marketing Intern - Alzheimer's (Solanezumab)
2013 - 2013