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We’re Not Meant to Live Like This
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Kat Kennedy
General Partner at Kickstart Fund
Riverton, Utah
Overview
Kat Kennedy is the General Partner at Kickstart Fund, overseeing investments in various sectors such as Enterprise Applications, Social Networks, and E-commerce. With a background in web development and experience at companies like Degreed and Neutron Interactive, Kat has successfully invested in notable startups like Crew and Kiln.
Kat Kennedy's career highlights include serving as President and CXO at Degreed and making strategic investments in companies like Cinch and Pura. Currently, as the General Partner at Kickstart Fund, Kat focuses on investing in early-stage startups across different sectors in Colorado and Utah.
Work Experience
General Partner
2022 - Current
Finding, funding, and supporting amazing founders in the Mountain West.
Kickstart is an early-stage VC fund that provides smart capital, a connected community, and expert guidance to companies.
President and CXO
2021 - 2022
Chief Experience Officer
2019 - 2021
Chief Product Officer
2012 - 2019
Degreed "jailbreaks the degree" by measuring all of the world's learning. Degreed helps individuals track all of their academic, professional, and informal learning. We then use that information to match each learner with the best learning resources in the world: courses, trainings, professional certificates, conferences, articles, etc. Degreed helps organizations see everything that their employees, teams, & company know. We then help employees and managers set goals, track learning across, and track spending back to the skills gained.
Degreed is an upskilling platform where individuals and organizations can discover content, build skills, and certify expertise.
Raised $462,741,463.00 from Dragon Capital and Mighty Capital.
Interactive Engineer
2010 - 2012
Currently working as the Lead UX Developer on Mormon.org. Took Mormon.org to the world, now in 20 languages and counting. Developed mobile and desktop versions of the site, as well as various properties to align with advertising.
Front End Web Developer
2009 - 2010
Designed and developed multiple brands and websites for Neutron’s many properties. Expored new technologies and practices as the company grew from a startup to one of the country’s fastest-growing urban businesses.
Neutron Interactive, LLC operates as an online media and marketing company in the lead generation industry.
Front End Web Developer
2008 - 2009
Redesigned and developed Healthrider.com, ProFrom.com, WeiderFitness.com, and FreeMotionFitness.com. Worked with the marketing team to establish branding and messaging for the all of the fitness brands owned by ICON.
IFIT is a global subscription technology company that provides interactive personal training.
Raised $580,000,000.00 from Scott Watterson and L Catterton.
Front End Web Developer
2006 - 2008
Developed a passion for the pixel perfect as I worked with design to create and manage multiple properities and advertising campaigns for clients.
Education
Bachelors
2004 - 2008
Investments
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