Investing Profile

Shalini Rao

VCInvestor
General 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
171 CONNECTIONS
TCV Network
102 CONNECTIONS
Headline Network
54 CONNECTIONS
Headline Network
54 CONNECTIONS
Harvard Kennedy School Network
28 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position
Headline (formerly e.ventures) General Partner
Investment Range
$10.0M - $30.0M
Sweet Spot
$20.0M
Investments On Record
11
Current Fund Size
$230M

Shalini Rao is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Shalini Rao's Investments On Record (8)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Owner
Series CMay 2025$120M
$420M
Co-investors: Alex Bard (Redpoint Ventures), Christina Cacioppo (Union Square Ventures), Sam Bankman-Fried (FTX Ventures), Alex Kurland (Meritech Capital Partners), Ryan Petersen (Founders Fund), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor), Immad Akhund (Y Combinator), Jack Altman (Lattice Ventures), Scott Belsky (A24), Max Altman (Saga Ventures), Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Max Mullen (Instacart), Julian Shapiro (Julian Capital), Zach Perret (Mischief Venture Capital), Dylan Field (Figma, Inc.), Siqi Chen (Xtripe Angels), Walter Kortschak (Kortschak Investments), Sean Rad (Rad Fund), Justin Mateen (Unknown Ventures), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Joshua Browder (Browder Capital), Jonathan Neman (MeUndies), Jason Lemkin, Fidji Simo, Dharmesh Shah, Joshua Reeves, Parker Conrad
Buk
Series BJan 2025$50M
$140M
Co-investors: Hunter Mcnabb (Index Ventures), 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 (AGLAÉ VENTURES), Thierry Petit (Ring Capital)
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: Aydin Senkut (Felicis Ventures), Adam Rothenberg (BoxGroup), David Tisch (BoxGroup), Ryan Gilbert (Propel Venture Partners), Aaron Goldman (General Atlantic), Patrick Chung (Xfund), Dayna Grayson (Construct Capital), Lee Fixel (Addition), Lindsay Fitzgerald (Vesey Ventures), Ed Phillips (Future Planet Capital), Patrick S. Chung
Asana
Series ENov 2018$50M
Series DJan 2018$75M
$210M
Co-investors: Matt Cohler (Benchmark), Mitchell Kapor (Kapor Capital), Marc Andreessen (Andreessen Horowitz), Aditya Agarwal (South Park Commons), Ruchi Sanghvi (South Park Commons), Zach Ware (Trust Ventures), Eric Ries (O'Reilly Media), Peter Thiel (The Founders Fund), Brian Neider (Lead Edge Capital), Mitchell Green (Moving Capital), Owen Van Natta (Prefix Capital), David Jeske (Hedgewood Inc), Ron Conway (Angel Investors LP Funds), Sam Altman, Dustin Moskovitz, Adam D'Angelo, Jed Stremel, Roger McNamee, Justin Rosenstein
Toast
Series CJul 2017$100M
$900M
Co-investors: Kent Bennett (Bessemer Venture Partners), Hunter Mcnabb (Index Ventures), David Jegen (F-Prime Capital Partners), John Curtius (Cedar Capital Group), Brian Neider (Lead Edge Capital), Julia Hang (Vesey Ventures), John Pepper (211vc), Pawan Deshpande (Angel investor), Rich Miner

Shalini Rao's Experience

General Partner, Head of Growth Fund HeadlinePresent
International Arbitration A&O ShearmanPresent
Research Fellow Harvard Kennedy SchoolPresent
Associate JPMorganChasePresent
Partner Generation Investment ManagementPresent
General Partner TCVPresent
Partner, Head of Growth Fund HeadlinePresent

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