Background Capital is a San Francisco, California based venture capital fund founded in 2018 by Rafael Corrales.
The firm invests in startups as an angel investor in their early-stage including Friends & Family, Seed and Series A. The firm raised $8.75m in the Background Capital Fund 1 and $9.2m in Background Capital Fund 2.
The notable investment portfolio of Background Capital includes Free Agency, HeightHQ, and Red Planet Labs.As of January 2020, Background Capital has made 4 investments and raised 2 funds.
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Rafael Corrales
Founder & General Partner
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Free Agency
HeightHQ
Red Planet Labs
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- 1
Lax Mariappan
Technopreneur, Open source enthusiast, author, speaker. Co-founder of Eternus Global. Crafting applications for the medical industry. - 2
Jed Christiansen
Special Projects & Business Development at Golden, Founder - Seed-DB. - 3
Neelam Jhaveri
Techno Geek + Gamer + Fashionista + Sense of Humor = It's ME - 4
Jude Gomila
Founder and CEO of Golden, Entrepreneur. Investor in 200+ companies. Cantabrigian (Gonville and Caius). Interested in the Universe. - 5
Aime Anne Nisay
QA Engineer of web and mobile applications