The latest player to provide working capital to small and medium-sized businesses is Kabbage “” a tool designed to facilitate online sales. All it takes is seven minutes or less, and funds are deposited directly into your PayPal account. We chatted with Kathryn Petralia, COO and co-founder, about the benefits of the product; what retail habit drives hercrazy; and the key to moving eCommerce into the future.

The latest player to provide working capital to small and medium-sized businesses is Kabbage — a tool designed to facilitate online sales. All it takes is seven minutes or less, and funds are deposited directly into your PayPal account. We chatted with Kathryn Petralia, COO and co-founder, about the benefits of the product; what retail habit drives hercrazy; and the key to moving eCommerce into the future.

Listen to the audio interview here.

Kathryn Petralia

Co-founder and COO, Kabbage

Kathryn has spent the past 17 years working with both startups and established companies focused on credit, payments, technology and ecommerce. Kathryn started Kabbage along with her two co-founders in late 2008, and it has grown from 3 employees and a Power Point to 46 employees and over twenty thousand customers in three years. Prior to Kabbage, Kathryn was with Revolution Money, an Internet-based credit card startup based in St. Petersburg, Florida, where she was Vice President of Strategy. Before Revolution, Kathryn was a corporate development executive with CompuCredit Corporation, where she was responsible for entering new markets, product development initiatives, as well as the establishment of multiple strategic alliances. Kathryn was also one of the founders of WorthKnowing.com, a consumer financial services portal whose IP was later sold to CompuCredit and TransUnion. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Furman University.