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Katherine Barr
Katherine Barr

Katherine Barr

INVESTMENT FOCUS
Driving the Digital World

Katherine Barr is a member of the investment team at MDV focused on Internet-enabled companies.

Prior to joining MDV, she was a Negotiator at Vantage Partners (spin-off of the Harvard Negotiation Project), helping high tech clients such as IBM, Cisco and HP to negotiate with customers, service providers, suppliers, and partners.

Before Vantage, she led a development team as a Senior Product Manager at HSA, an education technology startup in Boston.

Katherine teaches a yearly Professional Education Negotiation program for the School of Engineering at Stanford. During her graduate studies at Stanford, she was involved in running the E-Challenge business plan competition for BASES (Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students).

Katherine sourced MDV's investments in Visible Measures, Infusionsoft and VirtuOz, and has worked with various portfolio companies such as PBworks and hi5. She is a director for Samasource and founding sponsor of Startup2Startup.

Katherine received her B.A. from McGill University, and completed an M.A. and the M.S. core curriculum in Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University.

 

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