Investing Profile

Rafael Corrales

Founder at Background Capital

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Harvard Business School Network

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Georgia Institute of Technology Network

137 CONNECTIONS

CRV Network

51 CONNECTIONS

CRV Network

51 CONNECTIONS

Instacart Network

29 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position

Background Capital

Investment Range

$100K - $250K

Sweet Spot

$100K

Investments On Record

Current Fund Size

$9.2M

Rafael Corrales is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Consumer Internet (Seed)San Francisco Bay Area Marketplaces (Seed)SaaS (Seed)

Rafael Corrales's Investments On Record (10)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Beacon Software	Series BNov 2025$250M	$480M
Co-investors: Bejul Somaia (General Catalyst), Marc Bhargava (General Catalyst), Amar Varma (Self-employed), Tony Xu (DoorDash), Fidji Simo, Karim Atiyeh
Beeps	SeedDec 2024$6M	$6M
Co-investors: Bucky Moore (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Zane Lackey (Andreessen Horowitz), Lenny Rachitsky (Self-employed), Alana Goyal (Basecase Capital), Mathias Biilmann Christensen
Supergood Systems	SeedAug 2023
Co-investors: Alex Hartz (Shine Capital), Max Levchin (Scifi Vc)
PostgresML	SeedMay 2023$5M	$5M
Co-investors: Max Mullen (Instacart), Natalie Vais (Amplify Partners), Sarah Catanzaro (Amplify Partners), Greg Rosen (Bedrock Capital), Jack Altman (Lattice Ventures), Brandon Leonardo
Reveri	SeedFeb 2022$4M	$4M
Co-investors: Roberto Bonanzinga (InReach Ventures), Bobby Lo, Joe Greenstein
Openlytics	Pre SeedApr 2021$1M	$1M
Co-investors: Inaki Berenguer (LifeX Ventures), Ariel Poler (Freedom Financial Network), Bobby Lo
PopSQL	SeedSep 2020$3M	$20M
Co-investors: Darian Shirazi (Gradient Ventures), Alex Mittal (FundersClub), Aneel Ranadive (Soma Capital), Brianne Kimmel (WorkLife Ventures), Immad Akhund (Y Combinator), Jude Gomila (Golden (Recursion Inc)), Muzzammil (MZ) Zaveri (Audacious Ventures), Michelle Valentine (Plug and Play Tech Center), Jeff Chang (Alex Angels (Alexandria Angel Network)), Max Mullen (Instacart), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Jeff Fagnan (Accomplice VC)
Red Planet Labs	SeedApr 2019$5M	$5M
Co-investors: Yuri Sagalov (Wayfinder Ventures), Auren Hoffman (SafeGraph), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems)

Rafael Corrales's Experience

Founder Background Capital2018 - Present

Partner CRVPresent

Partner Charles River VenturesPresent

CEO / Co-founder (acquired by Wordpress) LearnBoostPresent

Advisor InstacartPresent

Founding Investor, Board Member VercelPresent

General Partner CRV2013 - 2017

Mergers & Acquisitions Xerox2007 - 2008

Rafael Corrales's Education

Harvard Business School M.B.A.

Georgia Institute of Technology B.S. International Affairs and Modern Languages

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