Shelly Rao
Investment Director, Juniper Ventures
San Francisco, California
Invests in
Sectors:
Locations:
Min Investment:
$500,000.00Max Investment:
$10,000,000.00Target Investment:
$2,000,000.00
Skills
Lists including Shelly
Investments
Work Experience
2022
Director, Corporate Development & Ventures
2024
Drive venture investments and partnerships across cybersecurity, AI, data and quantum. Select investments: Zededa (Observer), Akka fka: Lightbend (Observer), K2 cyber (acquired by New Relic), Fungible (acquired by Microsoft), Quantum Bridge (Observer), among other undisclosed transactions.
Principal, Corporate Development & Ventures
2022 - 2024
2020
Investor/Advisor
2020
Personal angel investments/advisor: - Orb (enterprise, series A) - OpenAI (AI, Series D, SPV) - Rain (fintech, series B+) - Exosonic (aerospace, seed) - Anysignal (enterprise, series A) - Stealth (industrial, seed)
2021 - 2021
VP, Finance & Operations
2021 - 2021
Backed by Playground Global, Universal Hydrogen is on a mission to make carbon-free aviation a reality.
2019 - 2021
Head, Director of Finance
2019 - 2021
Backed by IA, Costanoa, Tribe Capital and Canaan, Kepler designs, builds, launches, and operates an advanced network of low earth orbit satellites with the ultimate goal of bringing internet to outer space. As the first finance hire reporting to the CEO, I oversaw FP&A, accounting, corporate development and fundraising activities, as the team grew from ~30 to 150 employees.
Finance Manager
2019 - 2019
2017 - 2019
Associate, Investment Banking
2017 - 2019
M&A
2014 - 2017
Sales & Trading and Investment Banking
2014 - 2017
Financial Markets Rotation Program Investment Banking Analyst 2014-2016, Associate, 2017
2012 - 2012
Sales & Trading Intern
2012 - 2012
2010 - 2010
Summer Intern
2010 - 2010