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Cara Mccarty Abbott

Building Betterleave I Driving better outcomes by supporting families navigating serious illness and loss

Austin, Texas

Invests in

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $500,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $250,000.00

Work Experience

  • Founder & CEO

    2022

    Betterleave's award-winning family experience platform is trusted by leading health systems and post acute providers to reduce hospital readmission, improve quality and enhance satisfaction for families navigating serious illness, end-of-life and loss.

  • Venture Scout

    2024

    The AV Venture Scout Program is an extensive network of independent angels, entrepreneurs, and connectors. I'm specifically scouting women-founded and led startups.

  • Angel Investor

    2022

    Investing in early-stage startups at the intersection of People and Technology.

  • Partner

    2021

    Global pre-seed fund backed by 500 founders and operators. Investing in the future of money, health & work. Formerly known as The Fund Austin. Notable investments include; Add Value Machine Boom Boutiq Ceres Technology Chaiz Curious Eve Drones Inbanx Legal Karma Lena Health Lou Assist Mbue Mosie Baby Otis Sendspark SwiftCX Viva

2021

  • Contributor

    2021

    Sharing insights from the People function with a global audience: Future of Work, Employee Experience, Health and Wealth.

2020 - 2022

  • VP of People & Organization

    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. $150M Series B led by TCV.

2018 - 2020

  • Co-Founder, a Microsoft AI Inner Circle Partner [Exit: AngelList]

    2018 - 2020

    Code Pilot is a recruitment platform that provides production-grade development environments with coding analytics to train, test, and assess software developers skills and behavioral adaptability. Acquired by AngelList.

2016 - 2018

  • Head of People

    2016 - 2018

    WorldFirst is an international payments business helping businesses and people easy move money around the world at great exchange rates. $700M acquisition by Alibaba's Ant Financial.

2014 - 2016

  • 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. Acquired by Buildout.

2013 - 2014

  • HR Specialist

    2013 - 2014

    RetailMeNot is a marketplace for online coupons and deals that operates a portfolio of coupon and deal websites. Raised $191M at IPO.