Kabbage grew revenue from $5M to hundreds of millions in six years
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Victoria Treyger, General Partner at Felicis Ventures, reflects on her past operational leadership running go-to-market at fintech startup Kabbage.
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“And together we grew the company from its very beginning in 2012. It was just about four or five million into the hundreds of millions of dollars at the end of last year.”
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