Karishma Kapoor

Co-Founder & COO @ Run It Back

About

Co-founder of Run It Back, a one-day, prize-money competitive sports tournament for former athletes who still care about winning. I work at the intersection of strategy, growth, and execution, helping founders and leadership teams navigate moments of change, scale, and reinvention. My background spans finance, fintech, and early-stage company building, alongside designing experiences rooted in focus, resilience, and human performance. After nearly a decade in finance, I made an intentional pivot — stepping away from highly structured environments to build from the ground up. That chapter sharpened my ability to read people and systems, pressure-test assumptions, and translate complexity into decisions teams can act on. Today, I partner with early-stage founders through select advisory work while building Run It Back. Across all of it, my strength is the same: clarifying priorities, aligning stakeholders, and ensuring strategy actually turns into execution — especially at inflection points.

Country

United States

City

New York City Metropolitan Area

Industry

Management Consulting

Skill

Project Management, Sales, Marketing Strategy, Strategic Planning, Management, Leadership, External Communications, Business Development, Management Consulting, Business Case Preparation, Team Development, Team Management, Strategy, Revenue & Profit Growth, Fundraising, Stakeholder Management, Corporate Strategy, Coaching, Bloomberg Terminal, Financial Analysis

Experience

Co-Founder & COO

Run It Back

2025-12 - Present · 10 mos

New York, United States

Building and operating a one-day, prize-money competitive sports tournament Leading operations, strategy, partnerships and go-to-market execution

Founder | Strategy, Leadership & Human Performance

The K Project

2023-1 - Present · 3 yrs 9 mos

Built and lead an independent venture focused on mindfulness, leadership, and human performance, serving both corporate and community audiences. • Design and deliver mindfulness-based leadership experiences and workshops for organizations and boutique partners across New York • Work with founders and leadership teams through select strategy sessions, focused on growth, positioning, and decision-making • Lead end-to-end business operations, including partnerships, client engagement, and financial planning • Integrate human-performance frameworks into leadership and strategy work to improve clarity, resilience, and execution in high-pressure environments

Angel Investor

2020-3 - Present · 6 yrs 7 mos

Investing experience across early-stage companies in fintech, AI, and wellness, providing a capital-side perspective on growth, incentives, and narrative. Selected Portfolio: Financial Access: Gatsby, Trust Stamp, Oxygen Creator Economy & Community: Spotter, Autograph, Clockout, Ditto AI & Human Experience: Miso Robotics, Virtuix Health-tech: NowRX Through this work, I’ve advised founders on fundraising narrative, market positioning, and early growth strategy. This experience continues to inform my approach as an operator and advisor, particularly around capital-aware decision-making and long-term value creation.

Investment Banker

Financial Technology Partners / FT Partners

2019-5 - 2022-5 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Greater New York City Area

Associate, Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions

JPMorganChase

2017-7 - 2019-5 · 1 yr 11 mos

New York, New York

Analyst, Investor Relations

JPMorganChase

2016-8 - 2017-7 · 1 yr

Greater New York City Area

Analyst, Corporate & Investment Bank

JPMorganChase

2014-6 - 2016-8 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Greater New York City Area

Editor in Chief and Board Member

Flash Magazine

2013-1 - 2015-5 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Fordham University

Head of campus-wide digital publication managing and overseeing editorial board of ten people • Generating ideas for editorial outline as well as gathering and implementing resources to increase readership • Release publication ranging from 70-100 pages every semester