Patricia Kemp
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
Oak HC/FT

Patricia F. Kemp (FT), is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Oak HC/FT where she focuses on growth equity and early-stage venture opportunities in FinTech.

Patricia currently serves on the Boards of Duedil, Feedzai, Insureon, Kasisto, NextCapital, Paxos, Rapyd and Urjanet. Patricia is also actively involved with Cart.com, CLARA Analytics, Kryon, Ocrolus and Pagaya.

Prior to joining Oak HC/FT, Patricia served as a Venture Partner at Oak Investment Partners which she joined in 2002. Patricia’s history includes over 13 years of senior management experience at Cendant (formerly CUC International). At various times she was responsible for the marketing, operations, or general management of a variety of direct marketing credit card affinity programs. Patricia has also previously held positions at Hewlett Packard and Merrill Lynch.

Prior investments include FastPay (acquired by AvidXchange), 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.

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 received a Bachelor of Arts degree and an MBA degree from Stanford University.