Kathryn Petralia
Co-Founder & President @ Kabbage
Atlanta, United States
Kathryn Petralia is a seed investor at Kabbage in Atlanta focused on B2B and Banking. Kathryn Petralia is the Co-founder and President of Kabbage Inc., a data and technology company offering automated cash flow solutions to small businesses. Kathryn is a seasoned leader in financial services with more than 20 years’ experience across credit, payments and lending. Recognized as one of the 100 Most Powerful Women in the World byForbes, Kathryn helps lead Kabbage to simplify the way small businesses access the capital and services they need to build lasting businesses.
- Total investments:
- 2
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Kathryn Petralia invests in
Stages Kathryn Petralia invests in
Countries Kathryn Petralia invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $2.5M–$5M
Investment Focus
Industry
- B2B 1 (50%)
- Banking 1 (50%)
- FinTech 1 (50%)
- Payments 1 (50%)
- Coworking 1 (50%)
Country
- Israel 1 (50%)
- United States 1 (50%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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TenureX
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Tenure is a pioneering technology and enablement service provider for correspondent banking services. It sets out to bring banks and financial institutions together in a collaborative, technology-based, business-oriented fashion. | $5M / Seed / Aug 02, 2021 | |
WorkChew
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WorkChew is a marketplace that connects remote workers to the safe, productive coworking space in worker-friendly restaurants.It is focused on the B2B side of the business, signing up enterprises looking for flexible work options for their remote employees. The company also has a self-serve option, where remote workers can sign in, see the spaceoptions and all the amenities offered near their locations, and book a seat for up to four hours. For hotels on the WorkChew platform, users can also book a conference room or guest room. Restaurants and hotels on the WorkChew platform keep 100 percent of any money they make on food or beverage sales. With hotels, WorkChew makes a commission off conference room bookings, but the hotels keep everything they make off everything else.Co-founders Maisha Burt and Allyson McDougal established the company in Washington, District of Columbia in 2018. | $2.5M / Seed / Mar 17, 2021 |
Co-Investors
Techstars Ventures
1 deal together
FINTOP Capital
1 deal together
Gaingels
1 deal together
Harlem Capital
1 deal together
Invictus Advisory Group
1 deal together
Relish Works
1 deal together
About Kabbage
Kabbage is a financial technology and data company pioneering a new, automated way for small businesses to access working capital. The company simplifies the manual application process to one that is 100% online and automated. Businesses can use their business data to submit an application online and receive an answer in minutes instead of waitingweeks and filling out numerous forms like traditional lending methods. Businesses can access ongoing lines of credit up to $250,000.Kabbage leverages business data generated such as revenue, accounting data, business transactions, shipping data, social media and other sources to understand a business’s overall health and calculate credit lines throughout the customer lifecycle.The company began serving online merchants in 2011 and extended its automated lending platform to all small businesses – online and brick-and-mortar – in February 2014.In November 2013, Kabbage expanded its business to mobile with an iOS and Android app that enables users to apply or access their funds from their smartphones.Kabbage used to provide a consumer lending product, Karrot, but it is no longer available.Kabbage expanded the application of its platform in March 2015 by licensing the data and technology platform to power lending for other organizations. The company was named one of Forbes magazine’s Most Promising Companies list for the second year in a row. Kabbage further extended its lending reach in May 2015 with the announcement of the new Kabbage Card, which gives businesses the ability to pay for items at the point of sale with a purchasing card tied to their Kabbage account. Kabbage also collaborated with MasterCard in May 2015 to make Kabbage’s data and technology platform available through MasterCard’s network of acquirers.In August 2015, Kabbage was named the 36th fastest-growing private company in America on the Inc. 500 list. In October 2015, Kabbage completed a Series E funding round of $135 million led by Reverence Capital Partners. Holland’s ING, Spain’s Santander (via InnoVentures, Santander's venture capital arm); and Canada’s Scotiabank also participated in the round. Kabbage also announced a strategic partnership with ING to deliver instant capital to small businesses throughout Spain.In June 2016, Kabbage was named to CNBC's annual Disruptor 50 list of the most forward-thinking and ambitious companies that are revolutionizing industries and markets worldwide. Two months later, Kabbage was named to the Inc. 500 list of the country's fastest-growing private companies for the second year in a rowIn August 2016, Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA) upgraded and affirmed ratings on Class A2-2 Certificates issued by Kabbage Funding 2014-1 Resecurization Trust. The certificates were upgraded from BBB+(sf) to A-(sf) based on structural improvements to the transaction’s concentration requirements and the existence of more historical data relating to Kabbage’s collateral. KBRA also affirmed the ratings on the Class B2A Certificates of BB-(sf), Class B2B Certificates of BB-(sf) and Class B2C Certificates of B+(sf), which were initially rated in November 2015.In 2017, the company raised $250 million from Softbank Group Corp., raising its total equity funding to $500 million, making Kabbage one of the most well-funded companies with a female co-founder at the helm. It also secured the largest asset-backed securitizations of small business loans in the online lending industry of $525 million. In November, it diversified its debt-funding sources further with a $200 million revolving credit facility with Credit Suisse, earning investment-grade ratings of ‘A’ and ‘BBB’ by DBRS. It ranked on the Inc. 500 list as one of the country’s fasting-growing private companies for a third consecutive year, on Deloitte’s Fast 500 list, among CB Insights Fintech 250, in the top 10 of KPMG’s Fiintech 100, and its co-founder, Kathryn Petralia, was named one of Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women in the World.
Kabbage Contacts
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Kathryn Petralia
Co-Founder & President
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Amy Zimmerman
Head of People Operations
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Jon Hoffmann
EVP of Credit Operations
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Kevin Phillips
Head of Corporate Development
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Pete Steger
Head of Business Development
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FAQ
What does Kathryn Petralia invest in?
Kathryn Petralia invests primarily in B2B, Banking and FinTech startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Israel. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Kathryn Petralia's check size?
Kathryn Petralia typically joins rounds of $2.5M–$5M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Kathryn Petralia participates in.
When did Kathryn Petralia last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Kathryn Petralia closed in Aug 2021. Shizune tracks 2 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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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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