Founder & Managing Partner.
Virginie Raphael is obsessed with serving founders at the earliest stages and passionate about finding ways to better align founders and funders.
Virginie launched FullCircle to scale the impact of her work with a perpetual fund structure to invest in a better workforce.
Prior to founding FullCircle, Virginie was a Managing Director at Tusk Ventures where she was an early employee and spent eight years advising and investing in early-stage founders operating in highly regulated industries. Before Tusk, Virginie honed her analytical and financial skills as a banker at Lehman Brothers/Barclays.
French born, she was swept away by New York’s resilient entrepreneurship culture and enduring optimism.
About FullCircle.
FullCircle is a perpetual pre-seed fund investing in a better workforce with much greater economic potential where fulfilled individuals gain pride and agency over their work.
We invest up to $250k into initial rounds ranging $500k-$2.0M.
We are highly collaborative and network-driven, co-investing with the angels and small early-stage funds you want around the table.
We are passionate about the changing composition of the workforce.
While the pandemic has fundamentally changed how we work, FullCircle focuses on who works to build a more sustainable and equitable workforce with much greater economic potential. We are uniquely outcome-driven with a stage-focused, industry-agnostic investing strategy.
We value trust and transparency above all else.
We align with you right from the start as your most insightful, transparent and candid partner in executing your vision with clarity and focus. We serve founders as trusted long-term partners with shared values and a startup mentality.