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.