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Rafael Corrales is listed as Founder @ Background Capital | Early Stage Investing at Background Capital, based in United States, United States, United States. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for Rafael Corrales.
Rafael Corrales previously worked as Founder at Background Capital and Founding Investor, Board Member at Vercel. Rafael Corrales holds M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
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I founded Background Capital to invest in early stage startups that become fundamental businessesPreviously: early advisor to Instacart (IPO $CART) and a first round angel to Blockchain ($14b by Lightspeed), Webflow ($4b by YC Continuity), Clearbit (acq. HubSpot), and Luxe (acq. Volvo). Founding investor at Vercel ($3.25b by Accel). Before that, founding CEO of LearnBoost, which was acquired by WordPress (Automattic). Our team's libraries, like Socket.IO and ExpressJS, helped popularize Node.js
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I invest in early stage startups with a path to becoming fundamental businesses. I am solely backed by top founders, executives, and super connectors - this is to create a multiplier on my own efforts to support the next wave of great founders. Before, I was an early advisor to Instacart (IPO $CART) and a first round angel to Blockchain ($14b by DST).
San Francisco, California, US
Founding investor and board member of Vercel (f.k.a. ZEIT) from solo founder / idea stage.
Palo Alto, CA, US
Received a promotion after a year and a half, becoming the youngest check writer in CRV's +50 year history. I led the initial round for Vercel ($3.25b by Accel) and sourced Airtable ($11.7b by XN, Franklin Templeton, Silver Lake) and PillPack (acquired by Amazon for ~$1b).
San Francisco, CA, US
Advisor to Instacart from idea stage, before YC. Helped the company through many financings, strategic issues, and key hires including the President.
San Francisco, CA, US
LearnBoost pioneered major Node.js libraries like Socket.io and Express. Acquired in 2013 by Automattic (WordPress) as the largest of their first 12 acquisitions.
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Rafael Corrales works for Background Capital.
Rafael Corrales is listed as Founder @ Background Capital | Early Stage Investing at Background Capital.
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Rafael Corrales has worked for Background Capital, Vercel, Crv, Instacart, and Learnboost.
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Rafael Corrales holds M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
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