Investing Profile

Rafael Corrales

VC
Founder at Background Capital
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Networks Rafael is a member of
Harvard Business School Network
624 CONNECTIONS
Georgia Institute of Technology Network
97 CONNECTIONS
CRV Network
33 CONNECTIONS
CRV Network
33 CONNECTIONS
Charles River Ventures Network
24 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position
Background Capital
Investment Range
$100K - $250K
Sweet Spot
$100K
Investments On Record
11
Current Fund Size
$9.2M

Rafael Corrales is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Rafael Corrales's Investments On Record (10)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Beacon Software
Series BNov 2025$250M
$480M
Co-investors: Bejul Somaia (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Marc Bhargava (General Catalyst), Amar Varma, Fidji Simo, Tony Xu, 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: Jack Altman (Benchmark), Max Mullen (Instacart), Natalie Vais (Amplify Partners), Sarah Catanzaro (Amplify Partners), Greg Rosen (Bedrock Capital), 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), Muzzammil (MZ) Zaveri (Audacious Ventures), Alex Mittal (FundersClub), Michelle Valentine (Plug and Play Tech Center), Max Mullen (Instacart), Immad Akhund (Y Combinator), Aneel Ranadive (Soma Capital), Brianne Kimmel (WorkLife Ventures), Jude Gomila (Golden (Recursion Inc)), Jeff Fagnan (Accomplice VC), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Jeff Chang, Guillermo Rauch
Red Planet Labs
SeedApr 2019$5M
$5M
Co-investors: Auren Hoffman (SafeGraph), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Yuri Sagalov (10100)

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