Shruti Rao

Shruti Rao is an Investor at Construct Capital based in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she focuses on seed to growth-stage investments in enterprise infrastructure and industrial technology. Since joining the firm in 2023, she has evaluated startups building infrastructure software and hardware solutions, recently leading an investment in Saronic's $600 million Series C funding round in October 2024. She actively contributes to her firm's industry research, including the "State of Industrial Software" reports, and recently spoke at industry conferences regarding emerging artificial intelligence trends. Prior to her current role, Rao worked as an Investor at Bessemer Venture Partners and began her professional career working as a software engineer at Cisco. She holds an MBA and a BS in Computer Science from Duke University, bridging her technical engineering expertise with a strategic focus on robotics and enterprise automation.