Kara is Managing Director of SeedInvest Chicago and Detroit. She joined the SeedInvest team to help expand the startup ecosystem in the Midwest and thereby fill a gap she herself saw in the process of investing in early-stage companies. She is an attorney who decided to forgo practicing for finance; formerly on the trading floor at Moore Capital Management and later doing due diligence to help sell companies to private equity firms. She graduated from Miami University with a BA in Political Science and received her J.D. from The University of Toledo.