Patricia Kemp

Patricia Kemp is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Oak HC/FT, where she invests in growth equity and early-stage FinTech companies. She is also a contributor to Forbes, where she writes about FinTech trends impacting the financial services industry. Patricia has appeared on Institutional Investor's FinTech Finance 40 list, Innovate Finance's Women in FinTech Powerlist, and PaymentSource's Most Influential Women in Payments list.

Patricia currently serves on the Boards of FastPay, Feedzai, Insureon, Kasisto, NextCapital, Paxos, Rapyd, and Urjanet, and is actively involved with Kryon and Pagaya. Prior investments include Poynt (acquired by GoDaddy), Argus Information & Advisory Services (acquired by Verisk Analytics), NetSpend Corporation (acquired by TSYS), Point Carbon (acquired by Thomson Reuters), TxVia (acquired by Google), and Vesta Corporation.

Prior to founding Oak HC/FT, Patricia served as a venture partner at Oak Investment Partners, which she joined in 2002. Earlier, she spent more than 13 years in senior management roles at Cendant (formerly CUC International). Patricia has also previously held positions at Hewlett Packard and Merrill Lynch. She received her Bachelor of Arts and MBA from Stanford University.