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Kiran Rao

Investor

Investor at Vector Capital

San Francisco Bay Area

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Kiran Rao is Managing Director, Head of Portfolio Operations, and a member of the Management Committee at Vector Capital, a software-focused private equity firm, where he leads the Value Creation Team. From 2021 to 2026, he was COO of Value Creation at Vista Equity Partners, overseeing a 150-person portfolio operations team across more than 95 enterprise software companies and serving on the boards of PowerSchool and Greenway Health, and he previously spent over a decade at TPG Capital as an Operating Partner on the Technology Sector team, with board roles at companies including Digital.ai, WellSky, and Univision. Rao holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley and an MBA from Columbia Business School, and earlier held positions at McKinsey & Company, Accenture, Cisco Systems, and Asera.

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Who is Kiran Rao?
Kiran Rao is Managing Director, Head of Portfolio Operations, and a member of the Management Committee at Vector Capital, a software-focused private equity firm, where he leads the Value Creation Team. From 2021 to 2026, he was COO of Value Creation at Vista Equity Partners, overseeing a 150-person portfolio operations team across more than 95 enterprise software companies and serving on the boards of PowerSchool and Greenway Health, and he previously spent over a decade at TPG Capital as an Operating Partner on the Technology Sector team, with board roles at companies including Digital.ai, WellSky, and Univision. Rao holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley and an MBA from Columbia Business School, and earlier held positions at McKinsey & Company, Accenture, Cisco Systems, and Asera.
Where does Kiran Rao work?
Kiran Rao is at Vector Capital.

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