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Shailesh Rao

Senior Advisor

Technology investor, operator, and global business leader with experience building, scaling, investing in, and advising market-leading technology companies across AI, venture capital, private equity, digital advertising, social media, and enterprise technology.

Founder and General Partner of Arc180, a global early-stage venture firm focused on helping AI founders, beginning with India, enter, scale, and win in the U.S. market while building global platforms. Also serves as Founding Investor at Reps, an enterprise AI platform focused on execution readiness, helping organizations build, measure, and scale how people and AI prepare to execute.

Prior experience includes Partner and Head of India and Southeast Asia at TPG Global, where he was responsible for TPG Growth and The Rise Fund investments across India and Southeast Asia. Previously served as Senior Advisor to TPG Growth and The Rise Fund, one of the world’s largest global impact investment platforms.

Held senior operating leadership roles at Twitter and Google. As Vice President of International Operations at Twitter, helped expand the company’s international footprint from 2 to 50+ markets and grow revenue by 20x over four years. At Google, served as Vice President of Display Advertising across Asia Pacific, Managing Director of Google India, and Director of Geo, where he helped lead the launch of Google Maps and Google Earth across international markets.

M.B.A., Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, with concentrations in Strategy, Finance, Decision Sciences, and Marketing. B.S. in Economics, Finance, The Wharton School. B.A. with Honors in History, University of Pennsylvania

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