MS

Mei Shi

Technology Investor

San Francisco, California

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Work Experience

  • Principal

    2020

    Francisco Partners is a technology-focused investment firm with $40B of assets under management - Deep experience across all aspects of deal process including sourcing, due diligence, legal negotiation, deal execution and financing - Board member and strategic partner to management teams assisting with value creation initiatives Closed 11 new deals including 5 platform investments and 6 add-on's across application software and consumer internet - Sourced / co-led investment in Paradigm (Nov 2021): legal practice management software for SMB law firms - Co-led investment in The Weather Company (Jan 2024): leading consumer / enterprise weather software and data business - Co-led investment in Follett School Solutions (July 2021): K-12 ed tech library and resource management software business - Other board seats and investment coverage: Merative, Redsail, Plex Systems (sold to Rockwell for $2.2b), Perforce, RugsUSA

  • Board Member

    2024

2021

  • Board Member

    2021

  • Board Member

    2021

2022

  • Board Member

    2022

2018 - 2020

  • Board Member

    2018 - 2020

2016 - 2020

  • Vice President

    2016 - 2020

    General Atlantic is a global growth equity investment firm with $80B of assets under management I helped source, diligence and execute investments across consumer/retail, including: - Authentic Brands Group (Oct 2017): leading brand licensing company - European Wax Center (Sept 2018): leading beauty services franchise with ~700 centers - Morphe (Aug 2019): digitally-led, direct-to-consumer global beauty brand

2015 - 2015

  • MBA Operations Intern

    2015 - 2015

    At the time, Blue Apron was a growth-stage recipe and ingredient delivery service company delivering 3+ million meals per month I was on the Operations team and worked on initiatives to drive more efficiency in the labor planning and production process

2011 - 2014

  • Associate

    2011 - 2014

    Silver Lake is a technology-focused investment firm with $100B of assets under management I evaluated investments in growth-stage and large cap technology companies within SaaS / software, data / information, payments / financial technology and marketing services

  • Fellowship Recipient

    2010 - 2011

    Independent post-graduate fellowship project on social entrepreneurship