Investing Profile

Shawn Carolan(1)

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Partner at Menlo Ventures
menlovc.com/shawn-carolanPalo Alto, California
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Networks Shawn is a member of
Stanford University Graduate School of Business Network
302 CONNECTIONS
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Network
62 CONNECTIONS
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Network
62 CONNECTIONS
Uber Network
50 CONNECTIONS
Booz Allen Hamilton Network
17 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position
Menlo Ventures Partner
Investment Range
$8.0M - $15.0M
Sweet Spot
$12.0M
Investments On Record
48
Current Fund Size
$500M

Shawn Carolan is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Shawn Carolan's Investments On Record (21)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Monarch Money
Series BMay 2025$75M
Series AFeb 2022$15M
$95M
Co-investors: Daniel Levine (Accel), Wesley Chan (FPV Fund), Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen (2xN), Adam Marchick, Tom Williams
Kinetic Automation
Series BJun 2024$21M
$31M
Co-investors: Bilal Zuberi (Lux Capital), Rachel Holt (Construct Capital), Keval Desai (InterWest), Semil Shah (Haystack), Aashay Sanghvi (Haystack), Rick Wagoner, Gokul Rajaram
Kabata
SeedMay 2024$5M
$7M
Co-investors: Deepen Parikh (Courtside Ventures), Naval Ravikant (The Hit Forge), Andy Dunn (Red Swan Ventures), Sam Parr
Arc Boats
Series BSep 2023$70M
$100M
Co-investors: Chris Sacca (Lowercarbon Capital), Lior Susan (Eclipse Ventures), Greg Reichow (Eclipse Ventures), Ramtin Naimi (Abstract Ventures), Kevin Durant (Thirty Five Ventures)
Unagi Scooters
Series BApr 2023$17M
Series AMar 2021$11M
SeedOct 2019$3M
$31M
Co-investors: Brian Wayne (Aegon Asset Management)
ShipBob
Series EJun 2021$200M
Series DSep 2020$68M
Series CSep 2018$40M
$330M
Co-investors: Brendan Wallace (Fifth Wall), Ajay Agarwal (Bain Capital Ventures), Fabrice Grinda (FJ Labs), Ira Weiss (Hyde Park Venture Partners), Adeyemi Ajao (Base10 (Base10 Partners) ), Kevin Moore (KRM Interests LLC)
OpenSpace
Series CApr 2021$55M
Series BJul 2020$16M
$190M
Co-investors: Bilal Zuberi (Lux Capital), Penny Pritzker (Inspired Capital), Mark McLaughlin (Alkeon Capital), Ryan Shmeizer (GreenPoint Partners)
Chime
Series EDec 2019$700M
Series DMar 2019$200M
Series CMay 2018$70M
$1.5B
Co-investors: Andy Chen (Coatue), Satya Patel (Homebrew), Lauren Kolodny (aCrew Capital), Saurabh Gupta (DST Global), Tim Connors (PivotNorth Capital), Gale Wilkinson (Vitalize Venture Group), Huican Zhu (AMINO Capital), Qiang "Larry" Li (AMINO Capital), Lauren DeLuca (Motivate Ventures), Denis Barrier (Cathay Innovation), Mark Batsiyan (Inspired Capital), Benjamin Savage (Clocktower Technology Ventures), Miles Dowling (Clocktower Technology Ventures), Sue Xu, Zander Lurie, Kevin Colas

Shawn Carolan's Experience

Systems Engineer Intern, Cellular Infrastructure Group MotorolaPresent
Intern, Quality Assurance Engineering Digital Appliance ControlsPresent
Fellow University of Illinois Center for Computational ElectromagneticsPresent
Research Scientist at DEMACO, Inc. (division of SAIC) SAICPresent
Management Consulting Summer Associate Booz Allen HamiltonPresent
Intern, Wireless Data Group MotorolaPresent
Intern, Technical Planning & Wireless Data Applications 360 CommunicationsPresent
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