# Katherine Grass

> Katherine Grass is a startup investor at Thayer Investment Partners (Madrid). See 0 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Thayer Investment Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thayer-ventures)
- Location: Madrid, Spain
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katherinegrass

Katherine Grass is a startup investor at Thayer Investment Partners in Madrid. With more than 20 years of experience in technology, Katherine brings expertise in how corporations view, formulate and drive investment and innovation. Most recently as Global Head of Innovation & Ventures at Amadeus IT Group, she created the innovation division, including Amadeus Ventures, an Open API program and a trends and research unitfocusing on the latest trends impacting travel. Prior to Amadeus, Katherine was founder of Chalktech, a startup specializing in IT vendor financial fraud as well as held senior positions across Europe with Compaq Computer.Katherine received her undergraduate degree magna cum laude from Lewis & Clark College in 1995 and a graduate degree from Edinburgh Business School in 2002. She is trilingual in English, Spanish and German.

## About Thayer Investment Partners

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Thayer Ventures (Thayer) invests in technology companies with a focus on the travel industry. This industry represent more than $10 trillion in annual global economic activity, is thriving with entrepreneurial activity due to disruptive changes within the sector that began more than a decade ago. Recent consumer trends have accelerated thisdisruption for operators across the travel world, creating unprecedented opportunities for technology providers to make significant inroads into what was previously a closed market. Additionally, travel industry suppliers are dealing with massive shifts in travel planning, organizing and booking driven by the Internet and social media platforms. As a result, the travel industry is being forced to rapidly deploy new technologies in order to exploit the opportunities created by this shifting consumer behavior. The combination of these factors has created a unique environment for innovative technology providers to make significant inroads into this massive, growing, and evolving marketplace.

5 contacts available at Thayer Investment Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chris Hemmeter | Co-founder & Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-hemmeter |
| Katherine Grass | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/katherine-grass |
| Mark E. Farrell | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-e-farrell |
| Jeffery M. Jackson | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeff-jackson-3 |
| Leland Pillsbury | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leland-pillsbury |

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