Cara McCarty Abbott

Founder of Betterleave

Cara Mccarty Abbott

Founder of Betterleave

Austin, Texas

Overview

Cara McCarty Abbott is the Founder & CEO of Betterleave, focusing on providing grief and loss-inclusive care. With a background in HR and organizational development, she has held leadership roles at companies like Cognite AS as VP of People & Organization and has experience in venture capital through roles at PeopleTech Invest and Everywhere Ventures. Cara has successfully founded Betterleave, a company aimed at delivering connected experiences in grief and loss-inclusive care, and has held VP-level roles at Cognite AS, contributing to her expertise in HR and organizational development. She has also engaged in venture capital through positions at PeopleTech Invest and Everywhere Ventures.

Work Experience

Betterleave

Founder & CEO
2022 - Current
Betterleave's award-winning bereavement care plans are trusted by leading employers, health plans and health systems to reduce costs and drive better health outcomes, for every journey through grief and loss.

PeopleTech Invest

Angel Investor
2022
Investing in early-stage startups at the intersection of People and Technology.

Everywhere Ventures

General Partner
2021
Global pre-seed fund backed by 500 founders and operators. Investing in the future of money, health & work.

Forbes

Contributor
2021
Sharing insights from the People function with a global audience: Future of Work, People Operations, and Employee Health and Wealth.

Forbes Magazine is a business magazine that is focused on business news and financial information.

Raised $200,000,000.00 from Binance.

forbesmagazine.com

Cognite AS

VP of People & Organization I Alternate Employee Board Member
2020 - 2022
Cognite is a global industrial AI software as a service (SaaS) company supporting the full-scale digital transformation of heavy-asset industries around the world.

Code Pilot

Co-Founder & CPO, a Microsoft AI Inner Circle Partner [Exit: AngelList]
2018 - 2020
Code Pilot is an online platform that provides production-grade development environments with coding analytics to train, test, and assess software developers skills and behavioral adaptability.

Production-grade development environments with coding analytics

mycodepilot.com

WorldFirst

Head of People [Exit: Ant Financial]
2016 - 2018
WorldFirst is an international payments business helping businesses and people easy move money around the world at great exchange rates.

REthink CRM

Director of Talent & HR
2014 - 2016
REthink CRM is a software as a service (SaaS) company that produces software for commercial and residential real estate brokerage firms.

RetailMeNot, Inc.

HR Specialist [Exit: IPO]
2013 - 2014
RetailMeNot is a marketplace for online coupons and deals that operates a portfolio of coupon and deal websites.

Travelzoo

HR Associate, North America
2011 - 2013
Travelzoo, a global Internet media company, publishes the best travel and leisure deals to more than 27 million subscribers worldwide.