Rachel Arnold

Rene Stewart

Rachel Arnold & Rene Stewart

Rachel Arnold
Senior Managing Director,
Co-Head of Endeavor Fund
Vista Equity Partners, Austin

Rachel Arnold has over two decades of experience investing in and scaling growth at market-leading software companies. Ms. Arnold is Co-Head of the Vista Endeavor Funds and serves as a member of Vista’s Executive Committee, the firm’s governing and decision-making body for matters affecting its overall management and strategic direction, and Vista’s Private Equity Management Committee, the firm’s decision-making body for matters affecting Vista’s overall private equity platform. She currently sits on the boards of BigTime, BlueConic, Gnosis Freight, RadarFirst, Resilinc and Tripleseat, and is involved with the firm’s investments in Benchmark, COMPLY, Innovapptive, mabl and Portside. She was actively involved with the firm’s investments in AGDATA, Autotask, BigMachines, Bonterra, Bullhorn, Dispatch, Kibo, Lanyon, Lone Wolf, Naviga, PeopleAdmin, Relias Learning, SecureLink, WorkTango and Zapproved. Ms. Arnold was named one of GrowthCap’s Top Women Leaders in Growth Investing in 2022 and 2023, and to Buyouts’ Women in Private Equity Class of 2022.

Prior to joining Vista Equity Partners in 2012, Ms. Arnold held executive positions at four Vista companies. Her roles have included interim CEO at Bonterra (formerly Social Solutions), Senior Vice President of Engineering, Product Management and Marketing at Mitratech, Vice President of Product Management and Strategy at MicroEdge, and running Business Development and Channel Programs at SRC Software. Outside of her Vista tenure, Ms. Arnold served as Strategy Director at Interbrand and as an Equity Research Associate covering enterprise software at Pacific Crest.

Ms. Arnold is passionate about giving back to her community. In 2017, she co-founded the Austin chapter of Friends of the Children, a nonprofit organization focused on breaking the cycle of generational poverty through transformative work with high-risk youth. Ms. Arnold is the Past Chair and current board member for the Friends of the Children Austin chapter and serves as Treasurer and Trustee for The Contemporary Austin. She previously served on the National Board for Friends of the Children.

Ms Arnold has a B.A. in International Business, Linfield College.


​René Yang Stewart
Senior Managing Director
​René Yang Stewart is a Senior Managing Director at Vista Equity Partners, where she co-heads the Vista Endeavor Funds and serves on their Investment Committee. She is also a member of Vista's Private Equity Management Committee, the firm's governing body for private equity operations. Based in Austin, Ms. Stewart currently sits on the boards of Dispatch, iN2L, OfficeSpace, and WorkTango. She has also been involved with investments in companies such as Accruent, AGDATA, Bullhorn, Lone Wolf, Mitratech, SecureLink, and Zapproved. In recognition of her achievements, Ms. Stewart was named one of GrowthCap’s Top Women Leaders in Growth Investing in 2022 and 2023, as well as one of the Top 25 Software Investors in 2021.