Kathleen Hale
Angel Investor
Washington, United States
Kathleen Hale is a seed investor in Washington focused on SaaS and Social. Kathleen is an entrepreneur, venture capital fund manager and early-stage investor focused on helping to find, incubate, and grow ideas for solving our greatest challenges. As the COO and founding team member of Builders + Backers, Kathleen is working in communities across the country to restore personal agency, increase capacity forentrepreneurial thinking, identify promising solutions and ultimately scale and fund the ones that work.As a partner in Builders + Backers Capital, Kathleen invests in early-stage startups and helps other accredited investors do so as well through investment syndicates.Kathleen also is the Director of Operations the 1776 Ventures, a venture capital fund with some of the world's most promising startups, including Twiga Foods, Guild Education, HopSkipDrive, and Swiftly.Previously Kathleen has founded and grown multiple consumer products companies, including one of the earliest treadmill and standing desks companies in the US. She helped to take these companies from idea to manufacturing, e-commerce and retail success, and licenses with international brands.Prior to launching her first e-commerce business, Kathleen was an accomplished attorney and founding partner of a law firm. She served clients of all sizes and helping to secure tens of millions of dollars in judgments for them.Kathleen is an experienced public speaker who has been featured at conferences around the U.S. and abroad. Her articles and interviews have appeared in FastCompany, Tech.Co, PBS, Forbes.com and Livestrong.com.
- Total investments:
- 7
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
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Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 1 (14%)
- Social 1 (14%)
- Automotive 1 (14%)
- Communities 1 (14%)
- Marketplace 1 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (43%)
- Series B 1 (14%)
Investments
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| NXCR is a vehicle subscription startup that makes mobility flexible, affordable, and fully digital.It creates a profitable platform that enables vehicle subscriptions to thrive as a sustainable business model in automotive retail. NextCar is innovating through technology, operations and infrastructure, and strategic partnerships in order toadvance the vehicle subscription model and marketplace. | Seed / Apr 20, 2021 | ||
| Pacaso modernizes the generations-old practice of co-owning a second home, creating a marketplace that makes buying and selling easy, and adding professional management and technology to make scheduling dates and owning the home seamless and simple.Buyers considering a second home can tell Pacaso where they want to buy, how much they want tospend, and how much time they expect to spend in the house. Pacaso and its real estate agent partners will help them find the perfect home and set up a professionally managed LLC uniquely designed for co-ownership. The buyer will purchase their desired share — for example, half of the home, which will guarantee them access to the home for half the year — and Pacaso will briefly purchase the remainder of the home, before reselling the remaining portion to vetted buyers. Pacaso will manage the property, and owners will use Pacaso’s mobile app to make scheduling easy and equitable. | $75M / Series B / Mar 24, 2021 | ||
| NXCR is a vehicle subscription startup that makes mobility flexible, affordable, and fully digital.It creates a profitable platform that enables vehicle subscriptions to thrive as a sustainable business model in automotive retail. NextCar is innovating through technology, operations and infrastructure, and strategic partnerships in order toadvance the vehicle subscription model and marketplace. | $30M / Seed / Feb 22, 2021 | ||
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Technology firm | Seed / Dec 17, 2020 | |
| VOMO provides a volunteer engagement platform for organizations. It offers tools to initiate projects, connect to community causes, and measure the impact that the organization is making. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Plano, Texas. | Seed / Feb 01, 2020 | ||
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What does Kathleen Hale invest in?
Kathleen Hale invests primarily in SaaS, Social and Automotive startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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When did Kathleen Hale last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Kathleen Hale closed in Apr 2021. Shizune tracks 7 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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