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Kat Kennedy

Investor

General Partner at Kickstart Β· General Partner at Kickstart Fund

Riverton, Utah

Writes $500K – $3M checks Β· typically $1.5M

About

Kat Kennedy, Degreed's first employee, rose from software developer to President & CXO during its unicorn rise and leverages lived company-building experience to champion underrepresented Mountain West founders.

Invests in

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechHealthtechMarketplacesSaaS

Experience

  1. KickstartGeneral Partnercurrent2022 β€” presentUtah, United States
  2. DegreedPresident and CXO2021 β€” 2022Salt Lake County, Utah, United States
  3. DegreedChief Experience Officer2019 β€” 2021Greater Salt Lake City Area
  4. DegreedChief Product Officer2012 β€” 2019San Francisco Bay Area
  5. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsSoftware Developer2010 β€” 2012
  6. Neutron InteractiveFront End Web Developer2009 β€” 2010
  7. Icon Health and FitnessFront End Web Developer2008 β€” 2009
  8. Crowell AdvertisingFront End Web Developer2006 β€” 2008

Education

  1. Utah State UniversityBachelors, Management Information Systems2004 β€” 2008
  2. Rich High School2000 β€” 2004

Skills & more

Public Speaking7jQuery32CSS97JavaScript25HTML35PHP15AJAX9Wordpress3XML6Photoshop9CSS35XHTML9
+12 moreHTML 5CMSIllustratorSQLAdobe Creative SuiteSubversionBackbone.jsRESTWordPressAdvertisingWeb DevelopmentWeb Analytics
  • Degreed Level 4 in Public Speaking β€” Degreed

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Colleagues at Kickstart

Network4

Investors connected to Kat in public investor directories β€” a warm-intro map.