Katherine Barr/ MDV
Katherine Barr is a member of the investment team at MDV focused on Internet-enabled companies.
Prior to joining MDV, she was a Negotiator/Senior Consultant at Vantage Partners (spin-off of the Harvard Negotiation Project) helping high tech clients such as IBM, Cisco and HP to better negotiate and manage their critical business relationships (including customer, supplier, outsourcing service provider or buyer, and alliance partners).
Before Vantage, she led a development team as a Senior Product Manager at HSA, an education technology startup in Boston.
Katherine teaches a yearly Professional Education Negotiation program for the School of Engineering at Stanford. During her graduate studies at Stanford, she was involved in running the E-Challenge business plan competition for BASES (Business Association of Stanford Engineering Students).
Katherine sourced MDV’s investments in VirtuOz, Visible Measures and Infusionsoft, and works with various portfolio companies such as pbwiki and hi5. She is a director of Samasource and founding sponsor of Startup2Startup.
Katherine received her B.A. from McGill University, and completed an M.A. and the M.S. core curriculum in Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University.
