Katie Schwartz Thiry
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Katie Schwartz Thiry

Managing Director

Based in San Francisco, CA

Katie is a Managing Director at Salesforce Ventures and focuses her time on SaaS and industry-transforming healthcare and fintech companies. She looks for massive markets, mission-critical solutions, and strong teams. She has experience investing at multiple stages, ranging from seed to buyout, and has worked as an operator at early to growth-stage startups. She loves working side-by-side with entrepreneurs to help them build generational companies.

Since joining Salesforce Ventures, Katie has led the team’s investments in Airtable, BetterUp, DataRobot, Ironclad, ixLayer, Lyra, Modern Treasury, Spiff, Stord, and Wheel. Before joining Salesforce Ventures in 2020, she was an investor at Crosslink Capital and Vista Equity Partners. She started her career at Barclays and was an operator at Edison Software and Chime. Katie holds an MBA from Kellogg School of Management and received a bachelor’s in Politics from Princeton University.


Insights from Katie Schwartz Thiry

Welcome, Medallion!

Our investment in Medallion, a modern provider management platform that enables healthcare companies to fully offload their clinician operations in one management platform

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by Katie Schwartz Thiry and Zak Kokosa

Modern Treasury: Improving the way businesses move and track money

Today, many companies throw people at the problem. They hire people to handle payments; engineers to build bank integrations; and finance people to send checks and wires, reconcile payments, and close the books each month. This poor experience is primarily driven by the infrastructure that facilitates these transactions, which is arcane, slow, mostly manual, and

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by Paul Drews, Katie Schwartz Thiry, and Zak Kokosa

Moving Healthcare Forward

If you were unfamiliar with telehealth prior to the pandemic, you are likely familiar with it now. 2020 and 2021 saw massive increases in the adoption of telemedicine as the healthcare industry found itself turning to telemedicine to meet patient needs. More consumers than ever have tried telemedicine — a trend that is not going

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by Katie Schwartz Thiry and Zak Kokosa

STORD Delivers the Goods

Our investment in STORD, a cloud-based platform that helps bring visibility and resilience to corporate supply chains.

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by Katie Schwartz Thiry

The Coach is In.

Salesforce Ventures invests in BetterUp, a coaching and mobile learning platform that helps companies support their employees’ personal and professional growth via online sessions.

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by Katie Schwartz Thiry