Tara Zahiri

Tara joined Mainsail Partners in 2023. She is responsible for originating, executing, and supporting investments in software companies.

Prior to joining Mainsail, Tara was on the investment team at Accel-KKR, a technology private equity firm, where she focused on small to mid-market growth investments. Tara has executed and supported investments across a variety of software applications and verticals. Prior to Accel-KKR, Tara was an investment banker at AQ Technology Partners and Pagemill Partners providing M&A and advisory services to middle-market software companies.

Tara graduated with honors, summa cum laude, from California Polytechnic with a B.S. in Business Administration, concentration in Finance and a minor in Economics.