Mei Shi
Technology Investor
San Francisco, California
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Work Experience
2020
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
2024
Board Member
2024
2021
Board Member
2021
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
2010 - 2011
Fellowship Recipient
2010 - 2011
Independent post-graduate fellowship project on social entrepreneurship