Virginie Raphael is a venture capital investor at FullCircle who specializes in backing firmless professionals and new work arrangements like freelancers and caregivers, bringing deep expertise in emerging worker classifications and regulatory nuance around labor and benefits. She designed FullCircle as a perpetual, evergreen fund structure to better align founders and funders, while running her platform like a product company using tools like Airtable and building community through regular LP meetups and her newsletter Closing the Loop.

• Champions the shift toward non-linear career paths and the independent workforce, supporting platforms that help freelancers build sustainable businesses outside the corporate ladder. She frequently highlights portfolio companies like Wethos specifically for enabling independent workers to team up and access financial tools that make freelance careers more viable.
• Advocates for skills-based hiring and recruiting tools that remove bias by looking beyond traditional degrees and resumes. She has discussed the importance of capturing lived experiences and documenting actual abilities to create better candidate matches, noting that the current one-size-fits-all education system often limits potential.
• A deep interest in the multigenerational workforce and the barbell economy, where opportunities exist for both younger generations building portfolio careers and older generations working past traditional retirement. She actively looks for solutions that support caregivers and integrate work with life, such as her investment in Zaya Care to improve maternal care access.
• Views venture capital as a collaborative ecosystem rather than a zero-sum game, frequently referring to investing as a team sport. She often celebrates co-investment opportunities and publicly praises other emerging managers, such as when she highlighted bringing Javelin VP and F7 Ventures into a deal because they shared her cooperative mindset.
• Prioritizes tools that empower small business owners and service workers, extending benefits usually reserved for white-collar knowledge workers to the broader economy. She has expressed specific interest in applying concepts like contract work and co-working to the service industry to give those workers more agency and flexibility.