The TechCrunch reporter is set to join the corporate venturing unit in order to pursue a project "creating something that has never been developed within a VC firm".
Leena Rao, a senior editor at technology news site TechCrunch, is set to take up a position as an operating partner at Google Ventures, the corporate venturing arm of internet company Google, she announced yesterday.
Rao has been a reporter at TechCrunch since early 2009, after a six-month stint at the San Francisco Business Times and three years working as the director of community outreach for the office of Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney in New York.
Rao did not disclose any…
