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Katie Harper

Chief Operating Officer at Kard

United States

Overview 

Katie Harper is currently serving as the Chief Operating Officer at Kard, where she oversees operational strategies and drives business growth. With a background in mentoring at Duke Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Melissa & Doug Entrepreneurship Accelerator, Katie brings a wealth of experience in supporting and guiding startups to success.

Work Experience 

  • Problem Solver

    2025 - Current

    Leading new revenue efforts supporting the warfighter Advising early-stage startups

  • Investor

    2022

We support the best teams building early-stage financial services.

  • Chief Operating Officer

    2019 - 2025

    Employee #5, drove execution from seed to Series B Hired and managed initial teams in finance, HR, marketing, product, engineering, compliance, and account management

Making loyalty more rewarding

Raised $24,320,000.00 from Underscore VC, Tiger Global Management, S12F, Xffirmers and Fin Capital.

  • Head Of Operations

    2015 - 2019

    Employee #8, drove execution from seed through Series B Hired and managed initial teams in survey, research, and ad operations

Upwave is an analytics platform for brand advertising.

Raised $28,717,000.00 from PivotNorth Capital, Initialized Capital, Ridge Ventures, Industry Ventures, VITALIZE Venture Capital, Conductive Ventures, Bloomberg Beta and Uncork Capital.

  • Management Associate

    2014 - 2015

Velos, Inc. develops, markets, and supports healthcare software for clinical, administrative, and financial activities of healthcare

  • Research Associate - Center for International Business Education and Research

    2014 - 2014

  • Assistant Director - Duke University Marching Band

    2014 - 2014

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