Contact RA Capital
Get in touch
How to reach us
We aim to respond within three business days to all personalized outreach (though we strive to respond same day). The more detail you share up front — for example, a non-confidential deck if you're raising capital — the better we can match your inquiry to the right person on our team and get a productive dialogue going.
We look forward to hearing from you!
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To request a meeting to discuss your company
Email our hub team at request@racap.com.
If you're raising capital, please include a non-confidential slide deck with your email — and read below for a sense of what happens next.
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Media
For media inquiries, email media@racap.com.
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Careers
For job inquiries, visit our careers page or email us at hiring@racap.com.
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Internships
For internship inquiries, email internship@racap.com.
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Investor Relations
To connect with our investor relations team, email ir@racap.com.
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General Inquiries
For everything else, email general@racap.com.
Requesting a Company Meeting?
Here’s a peek inside our process
Your email and slides will be assessed by those of our colleagues we believe have the expertise to best understand what you are working on. Our goal is to ensure that the right people engage in diligence so we don’t overlook what’s uniquely important about your venture and technology. We review all emails carefully and almost always accept a request to meet if your work is related to areas we invest in. You can expect a reply within three business days, though we strive to reply same day.
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Start with diligence
If we haven't met a company before, we don't invest after a single meeting—we conduct deep diligence in stages, often pulling in more members of our team as we figure out what questions are critical to a decision. We can often also do our work via zoom just as well as in person, so there's no need to hold up diligence to try to do everything in person.
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Originate conviction
We try to keep our first meeting to non-confidential information and use it to generate an overview to share with our broader team to determine the right people for a second meeting. If applicable, we may also sign a CDA or request data room access. After our second meeting, we typically have a good sense of what it will take to get to an investment decision.
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We move fast
When time is of the essence, we can do this all in a week or two. Our efficiency stems from having a team with the right people with the right expertise to assess almost any venture and get to the crux of what makes a company special. To that end, we may rely on TechAtlas associates with specialized knowledge to take a first meeting, though senior members of the investment team are always involved in the process.
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It can get personal (in a good way)
While a lot of our questions may start off about the technology, data, and business model, the closer we get to an investment decision, the more we'll want to get to know your team as well at a personal level, especially if we're talking about leading a round and joining the board.
The first investment meeting
Our process starts with the right person
Management teams often expect to meet decision-makers first. We understand that instinct—but we’ve learned that uninformed decisions lead to false negatives, and we hate passing on great companies. So we’ve built a process designed to prevent that.
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TechAtlas associates who know your industry and market
TechAtlas associates are a core part of how we invest. They don’t make final investment decisions, but they’re often the reason good ones get made. Before your first meeting, a TA associate has studied your space, mapped your competitive landscape, and built the context our investment team needs to engage meaningfully. Our senior decision-makers will tell you: they don't develop conviction without TechAtlas insights.
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Relevant expertise and a well-prepared room
When a TechAtlas associate leads your first meeting, it’s because they have relevant expertise and your company deserves a well-prepared room—not a rushed one. They’ll brief the broader team, help shape next steps, and set up any follow-on meetings for real traction.
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Today’s associates are tomorrow’s decision-makers
It's worth noting that today’s TechAtlas associates are often tomorrow’s RA Capital decision-makers. How executives engage with RA Capital’s more junior colleagues has also proven to be one of the most reliable signals we have about the culture of a potential investment—for better or worse.
A two-way dialogue
We consider every company we meet to be a potential future portfolio partner. When you meet with us, we look forward to you teaching us more about your field and company. In return, we are happy to share what we know — financing strategy, product development, policy landscape, and competitive dynamics, whether we invest in your company or not.
If you meet with an RA Capital TechAtlas associate first, we suggest you be prepared to mine them for insights. They go deep in their focus areas, and the associate you meet will likely have studied your market, your technology, and the competitive landscape. Their insights may surprise you.
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