Speakers

Kiran Rao is Managing Director, Head of Portfolio Operations, and a member of the Management Committee at Vector Capital. He leads the Value Creation Team, overseeing operational and AI transformation across Vector Capital's portfolio. Before joining Vector Capital, Kiran spent five years at Vista Equity Partners, where he helped lead a 150-person portfolio operations team driving value creation across nearly 100 enterprise software companies. Prior to Vista, he spent over a decade at TPG Capital as an Operating Partner on the Technology Sector team, serving on the boards of more than ten portfolio companies, including Digital.ai, WellSky, and EverFi. Kiran holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

About Vector Capital

Vector Capital is an established Middle Market Private Equity firm with over $4.0 billion of capital under management across several private equity funds and a credit opportunity hedge fund. Vector closed its sixth institutional private equity fund, Vector Capital VI, with $750M in total commitments in March 2025. Notable investments include SingleStore, Corel, Showpad, Bigtincan, Cambium Networks, LANDesk, Register.com, Saba Software, SafeNet, Technicolor, Teletrac, WatchGuard, and Malwarebytes . Vector Capital is headquartered in San Francisco.