{"id":7763,"date":"2018-10-19T00:50:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T00:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2018\/10\/19\/kathryn-tison-petralia\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:16:25","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:16:25","slug":"kathryn-tison-petralia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/kathryn-tison-petralia\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathryn Petralia, 2018 Women Who Mean Business honoree"},"content":{"rendered":"

Atlanta Business Chronicle has\u00a0named its honorees\u00a0for the 2018 Women Who Mean Business Awards. Among the group of 20 is Kathryn (Tison) Petralia ’92, president of Kabbage,\u00a0Inc., a fintech company specializing in issuing lines of credit to small and medium-sized businesses.<\/p>\n

Petralia, an English major \u00a0at Furman, spoke to Atlanta Business Chronicle<\/a><\/strong> in a Q&A. When asked about what she is most proud of, she points to her team at the company she founded in 2008.\u00a0 “It\u2019s rewarding to have a group so passionate about helping deserving small businesses access the financial services they need to grow \u2014 and with their hard work more than 150,000 small businesses have accessed over $5 billion with Kabbage. The flywheel effect of this capital infusion includes the creation of over 110,000 jobs and more than $20 billion in economic impact in the communities where these small businesses thrive.”<\/p>\n

Petralia will be in Greenville on Nov. 1 to present a talk, “FinTech Unicorn, Kathryn Petralia, Co-Founder, Kabbage, Inc.” The talk, to be held from 4-6 p.m. at Aloft downtown, is free to attend but registration is encouraged<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Atlanta Business Chronicle has\u00a0named its honorees\u00a0for the 2018 Women Who Mean Business Awards. Among the group of 20 is Kathryn (Tison) Petralia ’92, president of Kabbage,\u00a0Inc., a fintech company specializing […]<\/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":[15,3,31,6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-alumni","category-english","category-in-the-news","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7763","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=7763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7763\/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=7763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}