Solving Business Cash Flow Challenges with Kabbage Funding™ - The Journey of Kathryn Petralia (Alternative Financing)

Kathryn Petralia is the President and Co-Founder of Kabbage, leading global financial services, cash-flow technology and data platform for small businesses. Before co-founding Kabbage, Kathryn spent nearly 15 years working with large and small companies focused on credit, payments, and e-commerce. After graduating from Furman University with an English degree, Kathryn pursued her interest in technology to launch a number of successful startups. Kathryn was named to Forbes’ 2017 list of the World’s Most Powerful Women. 

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Don’t forget to listen to last week’s solo episodes where I shared a tool to stress-test the financial health of your business and episode 28 “How to Survive Recession with Financial Confidence - The Journey of LuAnn Nigara”. 

These episodes can help you navigate the uncertain business environment that we are currently experiencing together.

You can download the template to stress-test the financial health of your business here. 

In this episode, Kathryn shared:
➤ How Kabbage was born (5:53)
➤ How Kabbage simple loan application process works (7:58)
➤ How Kabbage’s financing solution is different than traditional banking (8:40)
➤ A financing solution that changes following a business revenue level (9:43)
➤ The type of industry Kabbage serves (10:14)
➤ The information borrowers must provide to Kabbage for the online application (11:39)
➤ How the maximum limit of a loan is determined (13:49)
➤ How Kabbage monitors borrower’s ability to repay the loan (15:52)
➤ How borrowing cost (i.e. interest) is calculated (17:33)
➤ Other products that Kabbage offers to the market (19:29)
➤ Common cash flow gap for small business owners (24:44)
➤ When it’s appropriate to borrow for cash flow purpose (26:40)
➤ How Kabbage helps to reduce the financing gap between genders (31:05)
➤ Kathryn’s advice to women entrepreneurs (34:37)

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