Investors / United States / Background Capital
Background Capital
Venture capital · San Francisco, CA, United States · North America
Background Capital is an investment firm led by Rafael Corrales. The site references four numbered funds and a founder testimonial describing help with hiring and investor introductions.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsconsumertechnology
Your fit with Background Capital
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Or find every investor that fitsBackground Capital lists 4 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 4 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 75% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (25%), Enterprise Software (13%) and Media & Entertainment (13%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Accel, Alloy Fund and Andreessen Horowitz.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Background Capital, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundBackground Capital does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 75% |
| Series A | 25% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 1 | 0 |
| '24 | 1 | 0 |
| '25 | 2 | 0 |
| '26 | 0 | 0 |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 25% | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 13% | 8% |
| Media & Entertainment | 13% | 4% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 13% | 6% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 13% | 7% |
| Developer Tools | 13% | 0% |
| Legal & Compliance | 13% | 2% |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers4100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Accel | 1 |
| Alloy Fund | 1 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 1 |
| Base Case Capital | 1 |
| Basecamp Fund | 1 |
| CRV | 1 |
| Coho Deeptech | 1 |
| Comma Capital | 1 |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Background Capital head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Background Capital| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 5 Nov 2025 | Seed | |
| 1 Oct 2025 | Series A | |
| 10 Dec 2024 | Seed | |
| 27 Jul 2023 | Seed |
Round details for Background Capital
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Background Capital's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
4 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AudioShake provides AI-powered audio separation and stem creation services for various industries, including film, TV, and music. | Enterprise SoftwareMedia & Entertainment | Oct 2025Series A | Funding round | |
| Beeps provides an on-call platform for teams that want humans and agents working together. | Developer ToolsAI & Machine Learning | Dec 2024Seed | Funding round | |
| Flipturn provides EV charging solutions and management software | E-commerce & MarketplacesIndustrial & Manufacturing | Jul 2023Seed | Funding round | |
| GitLaw provides an AI agent for contracts that can draft, review, and negotiate legal contracts | Legal & ComplianceAI & Machine Learning | Nov 2025Seed | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- background.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 27 Jul 2023
- Companies checked
- 4
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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