{"id":7030,"date":"2017-11-03T17:29:03","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T17:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2017\/11\/05\/the-worlds-100-most-powerful-women\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:59:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:59:23","slug":"the-worlds-100-most-powerful-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/the-worlds-100-most-powerful-women\/","title":{"rendered":"The World&#8217;s 100 Most Powerful Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, an English Literature major can make <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/power-women\/#71097ecd5e25\">Forbes&#8217;<\/a><\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>list of &#8220;The World&#8217;s 100 Most Powerful Women.&#8221; In fact, Kathryn (Tison) Petralia, Furman Class of 1992, did just that. Coming in at No. 98, Petralia is cofounder and COO of Atlanta-based Kabbage, Inc. According to <em>Forbes<\/em>, Petralia is &#8220;One of the few female founders in the decidedly male-centric fintech world.&#8221; She created Kabbage to &#8220;disrupt the finance industry by offering businesses an easier way to get lines of credit &#8230; In August she raised $250 million from a subsidiary of SoftBank, bringing Kabbage&#8217;s total equity funding to $500 million,&#8221; say editors at <em>Forbes<\/em>&#8211;enough to get banks to take notice. Her husband, Mark Petralia &#8217;91, is also a Furman alum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, an English Literature major can make Forbes&#8217;\u00a0list of &#8220;The World&#8217;s 100 Most Powerful Women.&#8221; In fact, Kathryn (Tison) Petralia, Furman Class of 1992, did just that. Coming in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":7368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,31,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-english","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}