Abhi Srinivas
Vice President
Coatue
Coatue VP focused on infrastructure, cybersecurity, DevOps and SaaS investments.
Bio
Professional summary
Rahul Kishore is identified in the provided Business Wire source as a Senior Managing Director at Coatue. The announcement states that Coatue led Deel’s $425M Series D funding round and that Rahul Kishore and Lucas Swisher led the deal. The same announcement describes Deel as a global hiring, payroll, payments, HR, compliance, and benefits platform. Rahul is quoted in the release discussing Coatue’s tracking of Deel since 2020 and the firm’s conviction in the company’s scale and future opportunity. Public sources outside Coatue describe him as leading fintech investing efforts across public and private funds, but these details are not confirmed by an official Coatue biography in the sources reviewed.
Investment focus
Stage, sector, and overall fit
Stage
growth stagelate-stage private technologySeries D and later
Sector
fintechpaymentsglobal HRfuture of worksoftware
Thesis
Fintech across public and private marketsGlobal hiring, payroll, payments, and compliance infrastructureGrowth-stage software businesses
Notable companies
Selected portfolio companies the partner has backed
DeelBharatPeVedantuLunchbox
How to approach
Framing and angles for outreach
Pitch framing
Use a fintech or global payments/compliance angle with strong evidence of scale, retention, and international expansion.
Personalization hooks
- 1Co-led Deel’s large Series D round, relevant for global HR, payroll, compliance, and payments infrastructure.
- 2Public sources associate him with fintech investing.
Recent signals
What the partner has said or done recently
Business Wire announcement states Rahul Kishore co-led Coatue’s Deel Series D investment.
Public fintech profile states he leads Coatue’s fintech investing efforts across public and private funds.
Background
Career, education, and skills
Career history
- Epicenter CapitalFounder and Managing Partner2025 – Present
- Coatue ManagementSenior Managing Director2015 – 2023
- The Boston Consulting GroupConsultant2012 – 2015
- AppleSpecialist2008
Education
- Cornell UniversityB.A., Computer Science and Economics
Skills
Management ConsultingSoftware Engineering
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