Katie Kirsch

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States11 yrs 5 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 10 years in startup ecosystem as founder and investor.
  • Co-founded a nonprofit teaching leadership to girls.
  • Engineering degree from Stanford and MBA from Harvard.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in the tech startup ecosystem with a focus on education and community-building.

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CoachingStartupsProduct DesignMarketingPublic SpeakingGraphic DesignContent StrategyProduct MarketingFilm ProductionProject ManagementDesign StrategyWritingProduct ManagementAdobe Creative SuiteLeadership

About

Hi! 👋 I’m Katie from the a16z ecosystem / new media team in SF. Helping to build the best network in tech - creating programs, fellowships, & spaces for startup founders, operators, and engineers. Before a16z, I spent 10 years in the startup world as a founder, investor, operator, coach, and community-builder. I have an engineering degree from Stanford and MBA from Harvard Business School. Other interests - yoga, meditation, writing, scuba, personal finance, mahjong, volunteering with girls' health & education nonprofits.

Experience

11 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 3 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 5 mos
Current Experience

Andreessen horowitz

Partner

Oct 2025 – Present · 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Various startups

Investor

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos

Harvard graduate school of education

Graduate Teaching Fellow

Sep 2022 – Dec 2022 · 3 mos · Cambridge, Massachusetts

Sana labs

Product

Jun 2022 – Aug 2022 · 2 mos · Stockholm, Sweden

Lume

Co-Founder

Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 · 3 yrs · New York, United States

Designer fund

Product

Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Employee #1 at seed-stage conversational AI startup being incubated by Designer Fund. Left to attend HBS.

Ideo

3 roles

Product Design

Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr

  • Led innovation consulting projects, managed teams and client relationships.

Business Development

Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr

  • Closed deals with Fortune 500 companies, managed a $XM pipeline of work, staffed teams.

Marketing

Oct 2016 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Drove awareness and client lead-gen via case studies, digital ad campaigns, A/B testing landing pages, SEO, conferences, events.

Stanford university

Adjunct Lecturer

Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 · 4 yrs · Stanford, CA

Girl possible

Co-Founder

Jan 2014 – Dec 2019 · 5 yrs 11 mos · Stanford, CA

  • Launched a 501(c)3 nonprofit on Kickstarter with 3 friends at Stanford. Spent 14 weeks driving across the country in an RV, teaching 1200 girls across 32 states how to step up as leaders of social change through design thinking.

Education

Harvard Business School

Master of Business Administration - MBA

Stanford University

Bachelor of Science (B.S.) — Product Design Engineering

Castilleja School

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