Katy Dolan
People & Process Consultant for Growing Teams
About
I’m a seasoned startup generalist and current COO with experience helping 40+ companies scale, particularly around people and process optimization. I launched a six-figure startup consultancy, worked in VC, and as an early employee at a company that grew from Seed to Series B. I also graduated from Harvard with an AB cum laude in Sociology, a discipline that greatly informs my perspective on people and process. On the people side, I’ve managed talent operations for hundreds of contract staffers, overseen recruitment for C-suite executives, managed teams ranging from 1-50, and have scaled cultures through seismic organizational shifts. Process-wise, I’ve built countless systems and workflows for marketing, sales, product, people, operations, and even engineering teams. I’ve watched some processes accommodate years of scale, watched others fail miserably, and have a strong point of view on when and how to insert process as a strategic point of leverage in business growth. (I’m also an experienced marketer, with almost a decade of brand building expertise. I’ve worked across the full marketing stack, from visual design and creative concepting to content, social, email, and more.)
Experience
Joined as second-in-command of a YCombinator-backed startup
I'm currently the COO of Impactive, a YCombinator-backed, seed-stage political SaaS startup that made an outsized impact on securing the Biden/Harris victory in 2020.
Served at as an equity crowdfunding diligence expert
As an expert analyst at Kingscrowd, I've conducted diligence on 150+ startups.
Launched six-figure startup consultancy
Took the leap to self-employment in early 2019, growing my startup consultancy from zero to six figures in less than six months and posting average 30% quarter-over-quarter revenue growth.
Sat on the investor side of the table in VC
Sourced and diligenced a wide variety of both consumer and B2B companies, with a particular focus on female and underrepresented founders.
Joined an early-stage company that grew to Series B
Early employee of CollegeVine, a college admissions advising company that grew from Seed to Series B during my tenure.
Graduated from Harvard
A.B. cum laude in Sociology; John Harvard Scholar (top 5% of class) in junior and senior years with 4.00 GPA.
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Jerry S
Great time spent with Katy - laid everything would in an easily digestible way.