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Kathleen is an entrepreneur, venture capital fund manager and early-stage investor focused on helping to find, incubate, and grow ideas for solving our greatest challenges. As the COO and founding team member of Builders + Backers, Kathleen is working in communities across the country to restore personal agency, increase capacity for entrepreneurial thinking, identify promising solutions and ultimately scale and fund the ones that work. As a partner in Builders + Backers Capital, Kathleen invests in early-stage startups and helps other accredited investors do so as well through investment syndicates. Kathleen also is the Director of Operations the 1776 Ventures, a venture capital fund with some of the world's most promising startups, including Twiga Foods, Guild Education, HopSkipDrive, and Swiftly. Previously Kathleen has founded and grown multiple consumer products companies, including one of the earliest treadmill and standing desks companies in the US. She helped to take these c
Position in the VCSift Database
- • 2 investors at Builders + Backers are tracked.
- • 263 investors hold the COO role in VCSift. Kathleen Hale is one of them.
- • 1,381 investors are based in Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
Data sourced from 410,343 investor profiles. Updated July 2026.
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