Shailesh Rao

Global scale investor shaped by experience as a Global scale operator

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2024
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Founding Investor
2024
Reps is Enterprise AI for Execution Readiness—the platform that helps organizations build, measure, and scale how people and AI prepare to execute, turning preparation into a durable advantage. What we do: Execution readiness is the ability to turn vision and strategy into action with speed and repeatability. Like in sports, readiness is built through "reps"—repeated practice that creates muscle memory. Reps captures preparation before moments that matter: a screen recording of practicing with an AI assistant, a draft proposal, or a voice note with field insights. By analyzing these signals, Reps becomes the missing data layer for execution—revealing whats working, whats changing, and where execution breaks down before outcomes are on the line. Our focus: We help organizations across three critical priorities: - Accelerate go-to-market execution - Build AI fluency for adoption - Drive cross-functional and ecosystem execution at scale Reps provides a safe space for preparation. It is designed for readiness, not surveillance. Mission: Mobilize enterprise potential into business results—for people and AI.
Founding Investor/Operating Advisor
Jan 2020
BigSpring AI accelerates revenue through continuous practice. Think of the sales dashboard as the “game scoreboard”, and BigSpring AI as the practice engine for sales to get in shape for the game. Google, Pfizer, SAP, Cisco, HSBC, Tata, Liberty Global use BigSpring AI to continuously equip their ecosystem of teams and partners with the latest innovation to accelerate revenue. Customers have increased productivity by 2x, sales by 216%, and time-to-market by 9x. BigSpring AIs practice engine enables enterprises to predictively score sales people’s results, dynamically generate hyper personalized sprints to address proficiency gaps, and match sales opportunities with the most proficient sales people. John Chambers, Adam Grant, Stewart Butterfield, Claire Hughes Johnson, Mark Templeton, Wendy Bahr are investors/advisors.
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2024
Founding Investor
2024
Reps is Enterprise AI for Execution Readiness—the platform that helps organizations build, measure, and scale how people and AI prepare to execute, turning preparation into a durable advantage. What we do: Execution readiness is the ability to turn vision and strategy into action with speed and repeatability. Like in sports, readiness is built through "reps"—repeated practice that creates muscle memory. Reps captures preparation before moments that matter: a screen recording of practicing with an AI assistant, a draft proposal, or a voice note with field insights. By analyzing these signals, Reps becomes the missing data layer for execution—revealing whats working, whats changing, and where execution breaks down before outcomes are on the line. Our focus: We help organizations across three critical priorities: - Accelerate go-to-market execution - Build AI fluency for adoption - Drive cross-functional and ecosystem execution at scale Reps provides a safe space for preparation. It is designed for readiness, not surveillance. Mission: Mobilize enterprise potential into business results—for people and AI.
2022
Founder & General Partner
Jan 2022
EscapeVelocity is an early-stage technology investor that partners with Indian entrepreneurs building transformational businesses for the world. Our platform combines capital with access to scaled global operating expertise and global networks. We roll up our sleeves and go to work everyday with the goal of ensuring our partner entrepreneurs realize their ambitions. Whether it’s finding your first customer, hiring your first sales leader, or localizing your product, we will help you navigate the many dimensions of building a hyper growth business that reaches every continent.
Founder & General Partner
Jan 2022
Arc180 is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on helping Indian founders conquer the global market with their bold ideas. We invest pre-seed to series A in technology businesses that exhibit potential to become category leaders.
2020
Founding Investor/Operating Advisor
Jan 2020
BigSpring AI accelerates revenue through continuous practice. Think of the sales dashboard as the “game scoreboard”, and BigSpring AI as the practice engine for sales to get in shape for the game. Google, Pfizer, SAP, Cisco, HSBC, Tata, Liberty Global use BigSpring AI to continuously equip their ecosystem of teams and partners with the latest innovation to accelerate revenue. Customers have increased productivity by 2x, sales by 216%, and time-to-market by 9x. BigSpring AIs practice engine enables enterprises to predictively score sales people’s results, dynamically generate hyper personalized sprints to address proficiency gaps, and match sales opportunities with the most proficient sales people. John Chambers, Adam Grant, Stewart Butterfield, Claire Hughes Johnson, Mark Templeton, Wendy Bahr are investors/advisors.
2018
Partner
Sep 2018
TPG (Nasdaq: TPG) is a leading global alternative asset management firm, founded in San Francisco in 1992, with $306 billion of assets under management and investment and operational teams around the world. TPG invests across a broadly diversified set of strategies, including private equity, impact, credit, real estate, and market solutions, and our unique strategy is driven by collaboration, innovation, and inclusion. Our teams combine deep product and sector experience with broad capabilities and expertise to develop differentiated insights and add value for our fund investors, portfolio companies, management teams, and communities. For more information, visit www.tpg.com. --- Disclaimer: The information on this page is for informational purposes only. Nothing on or within this page constitutes an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any security or product of TPG or any TPG-managed fund. TPG is not responsible for any content posted by third parties on these pages.
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