Kiran Rao

MD & Head of Portfolio Operations, Vector Capital

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2026𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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May 2026
At Corel, we build solutions for creativity, productivity, and collaboration that people around the world love and trust. With brands like CorelDRAW, MindManager, WinZip, and many more, we’re here to help individuals and teams create, organize, and deliver great work. From vector illustration to mind mapping to file management, Corel software is designed to make complex tasks simple. Our products combine professional-grade capabilities with the flexibility and ease of use people need to work the way they want, across devices, locations, and workflows. We believe technology should empower you to get things done faster, more securely, and with your creativity front and center. And with an incredible 40+ year legacy, we’ve brought solutions to millions around the globe to accomplish that goal. No matter what you’re working on—from ideation to execution—we create software to help you bring your vision to life. Your possibilities are our inspiration. Follow us for product news, practical tips, customer stories, and ideas ready to shape the future of creativity and productivity.
Board Member
Oct 2024
PowerSchool is a leading provider of cloud-based software for K-12 education in North America. Its mission is to power the education ecosystem with unified technology that helps educators and students realize their full potential, in their way. PowerSchool connects students, teachers, administrators, and parents, with the shared goal of improving student outcomes. From the office to the classroom to the home, it helps schools and districts efficiently manage state reporting and related compliance, special education, finance, human resources, talent, registration, attendance, funding, learning, instruction, grading, assessments and analytics in one unified platform. PowerSchool supports over 50 million students globally and more than 15,000 customers, including more than 90 of the top 100 districts by student enrollment in the United States, and sells solutions in more than 90 countries. Visit www.powerschool.com to learn more. © PowerSchool
Board Observer
Sep 2019
Digital.ai is an industry-leading technology company dedicated to helping Global 5000 enterprises achieve digital transformation goals. The company's AI-powered DevOps platform unifies, secures, and generates predictive insights across the software lifecycle. Digital.ai empowers organizations to scale software development teams, continuously deliver software with greater quality and security while uncovering new market opportunities and enhancing business value through smarter software investments. Formed by the leading providers of agile planning, DevOps, and application security technologies, we are on a mission to unlock endless digital possibilities by harmonizing the delivery of software. We have more than 50 years of experience providing critical business and technology solutions to over 1,100 companies around the world.
Board Observer
Apr 2018
As the leader in powering social impact through education, EVERFI enables organizations to drive direct impact in communities on the issues that matter most to them. Our world-class educational content tackles societys most pressing issues in K-12 schools and workplaces. We empower brands and organizations to achieve their business goals by telling a profound story of the impact they are making in their communities through digital education. To date, 45 million students learners have received this life-changing education.
Board Member
Apr 2017
WellSky is one of America’s largest and most innovative healthcare technology companies leading the movement for intelligent, coordinated care. Our proven software, analytics, and services power better outcomes and lower costs for stakeholders across the health and community care continuum. In today’s value-based care environment, WellSky helps providers, payers, health systems, and community organizations scale processes, improve collaboration for growth, harness the power of data analytics, and achieve better outcomes by further connecting clinical and social care. WellSky serves more than 20,000 client sites — including the largest hospital systems, blood banks, cell therapy labs, home health and hospice franchises, post-acute providers, government agencies, and human services organizations. Informed by more than 40 years of providing software and expertise, WellSky anticipates clients’ needs and innovates relentlessly to build healthy, thriving communities. For more information, visit wellsky.com.
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2026
Board Member
May 2026
At Corel, we build solutions for creativity, productivity, and collaboration that people around the world love and trust. With brands like CorelDRAW, MindManager, WinZip, and many more, we’re here to help individuals and teams create, organize, and deliver great work. From vector illustration to mind mapping to file management, Corel software is designed to make complex tasks simple. Our products combine professional-grade capabilities with the flexibility and ease of use people need to work the way they want, across devices, locations, and workflows. We believe technology should empower you to get things done faster, more securely, and with your creativity front and center. And with an incredible 40+ year legacy, we’ve brought solutions to millions around the globe to accomplish that goal. No matter what you’re working on—from ideation to execution—we create software to help you bring your vision to life. Your possibilities are our inspiration. Follow us for product news, practical tips, customer stories, and ideas ready to shape the future of creativity and productivity.
Board Member
May 2026
Riverbed is the only company with the collective richness of telemetry from network to app to end user that illuminates and then accelerates every interaction so that users get the flawless digital experience they expect across the entire digital ecosystem. Riverbed provides two industry-leading solutions: the Riverbed Unified Observability portfolio, which integrates data, insights, and actions across IT to enable customers to deliver seamless digital experiences; and Riverbed Acceleration, which offers fast, agile, and secure acceleration of any application over any network to users, whether they are mobile, remote, or on-premises. Together with our thousands of partners, and market-leading customers across the world, we empower every click, every digital experience. Riverbed. Empower the Experience.
Board Member
May 2026
The core of all AI, business intelligence and applications is data — various bits and bytes that come in all different formats. Only when we sift through this data, reason with it and build on top of it in real time does it give way to vast amounts of information and knowledge. Real-time insights are key to the way we live our lives today; the way we entertain ourselves; the way we listen to music; the way we order groceries. Real-time insights keep your BI tools fresh; they keep your ride-sharing app with the most current price; and they ensure you never miss a fraudulent payment. SingleStoreDB is the world’s only database that empowers users to transact, analyze and search data in real time. It empowers the world’s makers to build, deploy and scale modern, intelligent applications — backed by streaming data ingestion, a unique table type that supports both transactional (OLTP) and analytical (OLAP) workloads, limitless point-in-time recovery and a distributed (shared-nothing), MySQL-compatible architecture.
Managing Director, Head of Portfolio Operations, Member of Management Committee
Mar 2026
Vector Capital is a leading, San Francisco-based global private equity and credit investment firm focused on transformative investments in technology and technology-enabled businesses. Founded in 1997, Vector oversees approximately $4 billion of capital across its private equity and credit strategies from a variety of investors including university endowments, foundations, and financial institutions. With our disciplined approach to valuation and deep-rooted operational experience, Vector has generated competitive returns and established a successful track record spanning nearly 25 years. For more information, please visit www.vectorcapital.com
2024
Board Member
Oct 2024
PowerSchool is a leading provider of cloud-based software for K-12 education in North America. Its mission is to power the education ecosystem with unified technology that helps educators and students realize their full potential, in their way. PowerSchool connects students, teachers, administrators, and parents, with the shared goal of improving student outcomes. From the office to the classroom to the home, it helps schools and districts efficiently manage state reporting and related compliance, special education, finance, human resources, talent, registration, attendance, funding, learning, instruction, grading, assessments and analytics in one unified platform. PowerSchool supports over 50 million students globally and more than 15,000 customers, including more than 90 of the top 100 districts by student enrollment in the United States, and sells solutions in more than 90 countries. Visit www.powerschool.com to learn more. © PowerSchool
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