Cara McCarty Abbott
Founder of Betterleave
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.