Shelly Rao
Director, Corporate Development & Ventures at Juniper Networks
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Director, Corporate Development & Ventures
2024 - Current
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
Juniper Networks is a networking company that markets and develops networking products for enterprise companies.
Raised $43,004,920.00 from New Enterprise Associates.
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)
VP, Finance & Operations
2021 - 2021
Backed by Playground Global, Universal Hydrogen is on a mission to make carbon-free aviation a reality.
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
Associate, Investment Banking
2017 - 2019
M&A
Sales & Trading and Investment Banking
2014 - 2017
Financial Markets Rotation Program Investment Banking Analyst 2014-2016, Associate, 2017
Sales & Trading Intern
2012 - 2012
Summer Intern
2010 - 2010