Katie Schwartz Thiry invests with an operator's eye, having worked inside startups like Chime and Edison Software before backing companies such as Stord, Modern Treasury, Medallion, and Wheel—founders who often built on firsthand experience with the operational problems they now solve. She tends to focus on unglamorous but essential infrastructure that replaces manual, fragmented systems with measurable, hard-dollar results, especially in healthcare and fintech, reflecting a background that spans finance at Barclays, a politics degree from Princeton, and an MBA from Kellogg.