Caty Rea
Vice President / Growth
Boston, US
About Caty
Caty Rea is a vice president based in Bessemer's Boston office and focuses on vertical AI, fintech and the business of sports.
Prior to joining Bessemer, Caty began her career at McKinsey & Company where she focused on advising tech companies as well as leading digital transformations for finance and insurance companies. Most recently, she was an investor focused on Series A through pre-IPO investments with Highland Capital Partners
Caty earned her MBA from Harvard Business School with honors and B.A. from Harvard College. In her spare time, she enjoys kayaking, reading, golf, and spending time with her husband, Ted, and dog, Mustard.
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The founder trait that makes you lean forward is...
Intensity without ego.
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The ghost in the machine: Simulation and the future of AI-powered determination
Enterprise decision-making is scaling more accurately and efficiently with AI-simulated populations.
Roadmap
Roadmap: Public Safety AI
From reactive to proactive: AI is shifting the dynamics of public safety from reacting to crime and climate threats to deterring them.
Roadmap
The State of AI 2025
Three years after the AI Big Bang early galaxies are forming in the Cloud AI universe, with plenty of “dark matter” still swirling.
News
Meet the founders of Relevance AI: Daniel Vassilev, Jacky Koh, and Daniel Palmer
Bessemer Venture Partners leads Relevance AI’s Series B.
Article
Part IV: Ten principles for building strong vertical AI businesses
In the final installment of the Vertical AI Roadmap, we share our investment framework and essential advice for founders on how to drive early-stage value and defensibility.
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Part III: Business model invention in the AI era
Copilots, agents, and AI-enabled services are three new models delivering the benefits of artificial intelligence to vertical industries.