Investing Profile

Shalini Rao

VCInvestor

Partner, Head of Growth Fund at Headline

tcv.com/team/shalini-rao/San Francisco, California

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Networks Shalini is a member of

JPMorganChase Network

90 CONNECTIONS

TCV Network

63 CONNECTIONS

Headline Network

32 CONNECTIONS

Harvard Kennedy School Network

13 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position

Headline (formerly e.ventures) Partner

Investment Range

$10.0M - $30.0M

Sweet Spot

$20.0M

Investments On Record

Current Fund Size

$230M

Shalini Rao is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Consumer Internet (Series B)FinTech (Series B)SaaS (Series B)San Francisco Bay Area

Shalini Rao's Investments On Record (8)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Owner	Series CMay 2025$120M	$180M
Co-investors: Alex Bard (Redpoint Ventures), Sam Bankman-Fried (FTX Ventures), Jack Altman (Benchmark), Ryan Petersen (Founders Fund), Alex Kurland (Meritech Capital Partners), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor), Max Altman (Saga), Immad Akhund (Y Combinator), Scott Belsky (capitalB), Zach Perret (Mischief Venture Capital), Siqi Chen (Laserlike Inc), Walter Kortschak (Kortschak Investments), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Joshua Browder (Wander), Parker Conrad, Max Mullen, Dylan Field, Jason Lemkin, Guillermo Rauch, Julian Shapiro, Justin Mateen, Sean Rad, Fidji Simo, Christina Cacioppo, Jonathan Neman, Dharmesh Shah, Joshua Reeves
Buk	Series BJan 2025$50M	$140M
Co-investors: Hunter Mcnabb (9Yards Capital), Neil Mehta (Greenoaks Capital), Adeyemi Ajao (Base10 (Base10 Partners) )
Gloat	Series DJun 2022$90M	$180M
Co-investors: Philippe Botteri (Accel Partners), Aviv Refuah (Journey Ventures), Yahal Zilka (10D), Elie Wurtman (PICO Venture Partners)
Back Market	Series EJan 2022$510M Series DMay 2021$340M	$1B
Co-investors: Antoine Loison (Aglae Ventures), Thierry Petit (50 Partners Impact)
Vestiaire Collective	Series ISep 2021$210M	$510M
Co-investors: Griffin Schroeder (Tiger Global Management), Bernard Liautaud (Balderton Capital)
Guideline	Series EJun 2021$200M Series DJul 2020$80M	$340M
Co-investors: Adam Rothenberg (BoxGroup), David Tisch (BoxGroup), Aydin Senkut (Felicis Ventures), Patrick Chung (Xfund), Ryan Gilbert (Propel Venture Partners), Dayna Grayson (Construct Capital), Lee Fixel (Addition), Lindsay Fitzgerald (Company Capital), Ed Phillips (Future Planet Capital), Aaron Goldman (General Atlantic), Patrick S. Chung
Asana	Series ENov 2018$50M Series DJan 2018$75M	$210M
Co-investors: Peter Thiel (Founders Fund), Marc Andreessen (Andreessen Horowitz), Mitchell Kapor (Kapor Capital), Ron Conway (SV Angel), Aditya Agarwal (South Park Commons), Ruchi Sanghvi (South Park Commons), Zach Ware (Trust Ventures), Eric Ries (Long-Term Stock Exchange), Brian Neider (Lead Edge Capital), Mitchell Green (Lead Edge Capital), Matt Cohler (KKR & Co. Inc.), Ronald Conway Sr. (NewCo), Owen Van Natta (Prefix Capital), David Jeske (Hedgewood Inc), Sam Altman, Jed Stremel, Adam D'Angelo, Dustin Moskovitz, Roger McNamee, Justin Rosenstein
Toast	Series CJul 2017$100M	$900M
Co-investors: Kent Bennett (Bessemer Venture Partners), David Jegen (F-Prime Capital Partners), John Curtius (Cedar Capital Group), Brian Neider (Lead Edge Capital), Hunter Mcnabb (9Yards Capital), Julia Hang (Company Capital), John Pepper (040 Capital), Pawan Deshpande