Investing Profile

Shawn Carolan(1)

VCInvestor

Partner at Menlo Ventures

menlovc.com/shawn-carolanLos Altos, California
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Networks Shawn is a member of
Stanford University Graduate School of Business Network
223 CONNECTIONS
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Network
44 CONNECTIONS
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Network
44 CONNECTIONS
Uber Network
30 CONNECTIONS
Motorola Network
12 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position
Menlo Ventures Partner
Investment Range
$8.0M - $15.0M
Sweet Spot
$12.0M
Investments On Record
40
Current Fund Size
$500M

Shawn Carolan is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Shawn Carolan's Investments On Record (16)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
ShipBob
Series EJun 2021$200M
Series DSep 2020$68M
Series CSep 2018$40M
$330M
Co-investors: Ajay Agarwal (Bain Capital Ventures), Ira Weiss (Hyde Park Venture Partners), Brendan Wallace (Fifth Wall), Adeyemi Ajao (Base10 (Base10 Partners) ), Kevin Moore (KRM Interests LLC), Daniel Curran (040 Capital), Fabrice Grinda (FJ Labs), Jeff Maters (Network Ventures)
OpenSpace
Series CApr 2021$55M
Series BJul 2020$16M
$89M
Co-investors: Bilal Zuberi (Lux Capital), Mark McLaughlin (Alkeon Capital), Ryan Shmeizer (GreenPoint Partners), Penny Pritzker (Inspired Capital)
Unagi Scooters
Series AMar 2021$11M
Seed RoundOct 2019$3.2M
$14M
Co-investors: Ellen Levy (Silicon Valley Connect)
Chime
Series EDec 2019$700M
Series DMar 2019$200M
Series CMay 2018$70M
$1B
Co-investors: Satya Patel (Homebrew), Saurabh Gupta (DST Global), Lauren Kolodny (aCrew Capital), Aditi Maliwal (Upfront Ventures), Denis Barrier (Cathay Innovation), Simon Wu (Cathay Innovation), Mark Batsiyan (Inspired Capital), Lauren DeLuca (Motivate Ventures), Benjamin Savage (Clocktower Technology Ventures), Miles Dowling (Clocktower Technology Ventures), Andy Chen (Coatue), Katie Stanton (Moxxie Ventures), Kevin Colas, Zander Lurie
Orai
Seed RoundFeb 2019$2.3M
$2.3M
Co-investors: Rajat Bhageria (Afore Capital), Nandeet Mehta (Afore Capital)
Skip Scooters
Series AJun 2018$25M
$31M
Co-investors: Alexis Ohanian (Seven Seven Six), Anton Simunovic (Alumni Ventures Group), Ronny Conway (A Capital), Ronny Conway
JUMP Bikes
Series AJan 2018$10M
$11M
Co-investors: Bradford Higgins (SOSV), Ron Stern (OurCrowd), TK Kuegler (Wasabi Ventures), David S. Rose (True Global Ventures), Chaim Meir Tessler (OurCrowd), Esther Dyson, William Barnes
Epic
Series CMay 2017$8M
$12M
Co-investors: Jay Eum (GFT Ventures), Mike Edelhart (Social Starts)

Shawn Carolan's Experience

Intern, Quality Assurance Engineering Digital Appliance ControlsPresent
Systems Engineer Intern, Cellular Infrastructure Group MotorolaPresent
Intern, Technical Planning & Wireless Data Applications 360 CommunicationsPresent
Intern, Wireless Data Group MotorolaPresent
Management Consulting Summer Associate Booz Allen HamiltonPresent
Research Scientist at DEMACO, Inc. (division of SAIC) SAICPresent
Fellow University of Illinois Center for Computational ElectromagneticsPresent
Investment Lead Uber2013 - Present
Partner Menlo Ventures2002 - Present
Founding CEO Handle, Inc.2011 - 2016
Manager, Software Architecture Open Port Technology1997 - 2000

Shawn Carolan's Education

Stanford University Graduate School of Business MBA
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign MS Electrical Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign BS Electrical Engineering + CS Minor