Claire Kennedy

Executive Search / former People leader @ POLITICO, Axios, Unit

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 1 investments📅 1 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2025
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Angel Investor
Jun 2025
We invest in founders who are reshaping outdated industries. We believe in a world where top tier fintech products help the 99% grow their wealth and build businesses. Where everyday people have transparent, efficient, and attentive healthcare experiences. Where managers and front-line employees in legacy industries have tools that save time, increase transparency, and take minutes to learn (vertical SaaS).
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2025
Executive Search & Talent Advisory
Jun 2025
True is modernizing executive hiring by combining global search expertise with the True AI Capability Index™, the industry’s only methodology for assessing candidate adaptability, learning velocity, and AI fluency. We help investment firms and public companies hire leaders who perform today and evolve as the business changes, shifting the focus from static credentials to real-world capability. By leveraging millions of candidate data points and real-time market intel, we turn leadership decisions into measurable business performance across executive search, advisory, and interim solutions. As a founding partner of AboveBoard, we remain dedicated to transparency and diversity, connecting transformative talent to the world’s most critical roles. Leadership hasn’t changed; how you succeed has. True Search is part of the True platform; a global suite of products and services driving the intelligence behind talent management. Please be aware of individuals posing as True recruiters. All official communication from True will come exclusively from an @truesearch.com email address. We will never reach out via personal domains (Gmail, Yahoo, etc.)
Angel Investor
Jun 2025
We invest in founders who are reshaping outdated industries. We believe in a world where top tier fintech products help the 99% grow their wealth and build businesses. Where everyday people have transparent, efficient, and attentive healthcare experiences. Where managers and front-line employees in legacy industries have tools that save time, increase transparency, and take minutes to learn (vertical SaaS).
Advisor
May 2025
We’re not waiting for the future. We’re building it. Through curated collaboration with world class People leaders, we surface the best technology and scale it in the world’s most forward-thinking companies. PeopleTech Partner advisors have deep experience as decision makers and buyers. We share critical insights and give feedback in partnership with our company founders at the right time to fuel success.
2024
Advisor
Sep 2024
Primary is the worlds largest early stage VC firm, with a billion in assets under management and 50 full time employees. Primary’s Impact team outnumbers investors 2:1, and is filled with seasoned executives working alongside founders to supercharge growth and secure quality hires, early customers, and downstream investors. This team embeds with companies for 2,500 hours of high-intensity fractional leadership work, conducts 3,000 candidate interviews, maintains a pool of 5,000+ active job seekers, and hosts 250 events large and small for the NYC tech community each year. Cofounders Brad Svrluga and Ben Sun have won recognition from Forbes Midas List and Insiders Seed 100.
2013
Business Development Associate
Feb 2013
POLITICO illuminates the forces shaping global power. Since 2007, we have delivered intelligence that anticipates tomorrow’s headlines, not reports on yesterday’s news. As politics has increasingly become the defining force of our era, our work has never been more vital. Cabinet secretaries and Ministers start their mornings with our analysis. CEOs shape strategy around our reporting. Advocacy leaders rely on our insights to move policy. We deliver the straightforward facts and clear-eyed analysis they need to navigate the most complex political landscape of our lifetimes. Our 1,100+ publishing professionals across the world’s key democratic capitals—Washington, Brussels, London, Paris, Berlin, Sacramento, and New York—form the world’s premier politics and policy newsroom. We tell the story of how power really works by explaining who wields it and how they plan to exercise it, connecting dots others miss and delivering scoops from sources others don’t even know exist. Innovation has always been a core tenet of our story. At launch, we bet that depth would trump scale, that talent would trump traffic, and that politics would become central to modern life. In 2011, we made another bet and launched POLITICO Pro to help decision-makers understand the business of government, transforming both how they shape government action and the business of journalism itself. These bets have made POLITICO the most successful digital news startup of its generation and the indispensable resource for leaders who shape the future. Today, we are a rarity in media: a growing, profitable, and sustainable news organization. POLITICO is a subsidiary of Axel Springer SE, a family-owned transatlantic media company headquartered in Berlin and New York. Axel Springer is dedicated Political professionals read POLITICO. Public policy professionals need POLITICO. And those who hunger to better understand Washington and government power centers around the globe go to POLITICO first.