Cara Eckholm

Cara Eckholm


Head of Growth, Nabr

Cara is on the executive team at Nabr, a sustainable urban housing company backed by Bjarke Ingels Group. Cara joined Nabr from Zigg Capital, the largest real estate tech venture fund in New York and the lead of Nabr’s seed round. Cara previously worked at Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs, where she helped incubate Canopy Buildings, a software-enabled factory business focused on producing mass timber buildings. Cara began her career in Copenhagen working with LEGO’s Product and Market Development team on LEGO’s five year R&D plan, and later its global brand. Cara graduated from Princeton where she wrote the best thesis in architecture, and she was at Stanford GSB before dropping out to join Nabr. In 2014, Cara was a National Geographic Explorer, and her writing about cities has been featured in numerous media outlets.