Kathryn Petralia is an American entrepreneur who is the co-founder and COO of Kabbage. [1]
In November 2017, Forbes said that she was the 98th most powerful woman in the world. [2] In December 2017, she was listed as 1 of 42 women a list of successful women in technology in TechCrunch. [3]
Kathryn Petralia was born on August 17, 1970. [4] At nine, she was given a TRS-80 computer by her parents and she developed an interest in technology. [5] She was an English major [5] and earned a B.A. degree in English literature from Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. [6] [7]
Beginning in the early 1990s, [8] she began working at companies focused on "technology, payments and e-commerce." [9] She became involved in "alternative lending" in the late 1990s. [8] She also launched a west coast commerce startup in the mid-1990s. [5] Early on she was involved with US Web. [7] She was director of strategy for Visionary Systems. [8] Early on, she was a vice president and co-founder of WorthKnowing.com, [8] which was sold to CompuCredit and TransUnion. [6] Afterwards, she spent seven years in corporate development with CompuCredit, [6] As a corporate development executive with CompuCredit Corporation (now Atlanticus), [7] [8] [5] she was in charge of directing efforts regarding "entering new markets" and developing products. [5]
She was the vice president of strategy for Revolution Money [8] [5] [6] in St. Petersburg, Florida. [6] [7]
In 2008, [10] [8] she co-founded Kabbage with Marc Gorlin and Rob Frohwein. [9] The business began in May 2011. [10] In 2015, the Kabbage platform was extended to large banks including Santander. [10] She is Kabbage's head of operations and has been its chief operating officer. [6]
She and her husband [11] have two children and live in Atlanta. [1]