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Kathryn Petralia on Growing Kabbage
Kathryn Petralia, co-founder of Kabbage, discusses how the company grew into an Atlanta unicorn by using data-driven automated underwriting to provide small business loans, lending over 2 billion dollars in the US. She explains Kabbage's dual business model of direct lending and licensing its technology to global financial institutions like ING in Spain.
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Summary
Kathryn Petralia, co-founder of Kabbage, discusses how the company grew into an Atlanta unicorn by using data-driven automated underwriting to provide small business loans, lending over 2 billion dollars in the US. She explains Kabbage's dual business model of direct lending and licensing its technology to global financial institutions like ING in Spain.
Tags
fintech · small-business-lending · kabbage · startup · automated-underwriting · entrepreneurship · financial-technology
Key entities
Kathryn Petralia (person, 0.99) · Kabbage (organization, 0.99) · eBay (organization, 0.85) · ING (organization, 0.9) · Atlanta (location, 0.85) · Spain (location, 0.8) · automated underwriting (concept, 0.95) · small business financing (concept, 0.95) · Kristyn Back (person, 0.7)
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transcript · language en · status final
Provenance
claude-opus-4-6 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 9 Jul 2026