Katie Harper
Chief Operating Officer at Kard
United States
Overview
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