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Kathryn O'day

Partner at Atlanta Ventures

Atlanta, Georgia

Overview 

Kathryn O'Day is a Partner at Atlanta Ventures, where she transitioned from a successful career as a Startup COO to a Venture Capitalist. With experience as a 7x Ironman, she brings a unique blend of operational expertise and endurance to her role, focusing on investing in diverse founders across various sectors such as MarketingTech, SaaS, and Health IT.

Work Experience 

  • Partner

    2021 - Current

    Empowering entrepreneurs to start, grow, and learn.

Atlanta Ventures empowers SaaS entrepreneurs to achieve their potential through community, content, and capital.

  • Founding Team, Head of Ops

    2019 - 2021

    Scaling word of mouth marketing

Drum is a new gig economy platform that aims to improve the lives of millions.

Raised $11,000,000.00 from Valor Ventures, Core Innovation Capital, Propel, Grotech Ventures, SV Angel, Felicis, BlueRun Ventures, American Express Ventures, BoxGroup and Wildcat Venture Partners.

  • COO

    2016 - 2019

    Leading digital experience monitoring platform acquired by Splunk in Oct 2020. * 5x Best Place To Work Winner * #430 on Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Companies (#9 in Atlanta)

  • Director of Client Success

    2015 - 2016

Web, Mobile, & API Performance Management Solution

  • Senior Manager, Client Services

    2008 - 2015

    * Employee #9 * 3x Best Place To Work Winner * Customer growth from 75 to 4000+, department growth from 4 to 100+ * Acquired by ExactTarget $95M (2012) * Acquired by Salesforce $2.5B (2013)

Pardot is a SaaS-based marketing automation application enabling marketers to create, deploy and manage online promotion campaigns.

  • Director of Annual Giving

    2006 - 2008

  • Coach

    2005 - 2006

    * Awarded one-year coaching fellowship in Amherst College Athletic Dept * Assistant coach and recruiter for varsity softball and basketball teams * Managed college-wide intramural program and community outreach events for athletes

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