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Kristen Tyrrell and the work a paycheck does
A union household in Reno taught her what financial stability could make possible. At Catch, and later Cash App, she tried to build some of that machinery for people whose working lives refused to fit the form.
Laura Speyer
Laura Speyer is the co-CEO of Catch, a benefits marketplace that helps America's self-employed and independent workers find and enroll in health, dental, and vision insurance. After Catch's original founders shut the company down in March 2023, Speyer and her former CLEAR colleague Alexa Irish bought it with their own money and relaunched it in time for the November 2023 open enrollment. A Yale-trained dealmaker who came up through KKR and led corporate development and growth at CLEAR, Speyer pitches Catch as a 'personalized HR department' for the roughly 60 million Americans who work without an employer's safety net.