Investors & Partners at base case capital

Alana Goyal

Founder and Managing Partner, base case capital

Alana Goyal is the founder of basecase capital, a pre-seed firm that writes the first check into technical builders. Goyal raised $600,000 from investor Elad Gil in October 2020 and began writing small checks on nights and weekends while working as a product manager at Samsara; nine months later she closed a $20 million fund backed by Gil, Marc Andreessen, Sequoia Capital and Greylock Partners. At basecase she leads rounds with checks of $1 million to $5 million without taking a board seat, backs companies pre-product and often pre-idea, and works as an outsourced recruiter, early beta tester and paying customer for the companies she funds. She is an investor in Vercel, whose founder and chief executive Guillermo Rauch credits her with product feedback and network introductions. Forbes named Goyal to its 2024 30 Under 30 list for venture capital. She also publishes technical essays and side projects on the basecase blog.