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Cara McCarty Abbott

Founder of Betterleave

Austin, Texas

Overview

Work Experience

  • 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.

  • Angel Investor

    2022

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

  • General Partner

    2021

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

  • Contributor

    2021

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • HR Specialist [Exit: IPO]

    2013 - 2014

    RetailMeNot is a marketplace for online coupons and deals that operates a portfolio of coupon and deal websites.

  • 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.

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