Investing Profile

Elena (Lainy) Painter(25)

VCInvestor

Partner at Craft Ventures

craftventures.comMenlo Park, California

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Elena (Lainy) Painter's investing connections

4 Investors

Connected to Josh Elman (Greylock Partners), Sarah Tavel (Benchmark Capital), Nicole Quinn (Lightspeed Venture Partners), and 1 other investor on Signal.

Networks Elena (Lainy) is a member of

Goldman Sachs Network

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IBM Network

125 CONNECTIONS

The College of William and Mary Network

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Current Investing Position

Craft Ventures Partner

Investment Range

$100K - $5.0M

Sweet Spot

$1.5M

Investments On Record

Current Fund Size

$500M

Elena (Lainy) Painter is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

San Francisco Bay Area FinTech (Series A)FinTech (Seed)

Elena (Lainy) Painter's Investments On Record (15)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Cartwheel	SeedMay 2025$10M	$75M
Co-investors: Holly Maloney McConnell (General Catalyst), Daniel Levine (Accel), Greg Yap (Menlo Ventures), Lainy Painter (Craft Ventures), Sean Whitney (Craft Ventures), Reva Nohria (General Catalyst Partners), Minnie Ingersoll (TenOneTen Ventures), Raoul Maier (Eudemian Ventures, LLC), Samara Hernandez (Chingona Ventures), Craig Cummings (Moonshots Capital), Akshay Kothari, Drew Houston, Amjad Masad
Vooma	Series ADec 2024$14M	$18M
Co-investors: Nina Achadjian (Index Ventures), Lainy Painter (Craft Ventures), Ryan Hrabak (Craft Ventures), Ron Pragides, Jett McCandless, William Hockey
Arcol	Series AJul 2024	$6M
Co-investors: Ted Wang (Cowboy Ventures), John Lilly (Greylock), Matthew Ball (Makers Fund), Sean Whitney (Craft Ventures), Ankur Nagpal (Vibe Capital), Packy McCormick (Breather), Lainy Painter (Craft Ventures), Dylan Field
Bandana	SeedSep 2023$4M	$13M
Co-investors: Andrea Wang (General Catalyst), Niko Bonatsos (General Catalyst), Lainy Painter (Craft Ventures), Sarah Smith (Stanford University)
Sensible	SeedNov 2022$7M	$11M
Co-investors: Jack Altman (Benchmark), Lainy Painter (Craft Ventures), Ashmeet Sidana (Engineering Capital), Melody Koh (NextView Ventures), Chad Nitschke, Gordon Wintrob
Explo	Series AAug 2022$12M	$14M
Co-investors: Sri Pangulur (Tribe Capital), Lainy Painter (Craft Ventures), Gokul Rajaram (gokulrajaram.com), Nate Matherson
Pando	SeedApr 2022$5M	$53M
Co-investors: Mar Hershenson (Pear VC), Caitlin Strandberg (Lerer Hippeau), Benedikt Körling (Global Founders Capital), Mohanjit Jolly (DFJ), Kathleen Utecht (Core Innnovation Capital), Clint Korver (Ulu Ventures), Miriam Rivera (Ulu Ventures), Lainy Painter (Craft Ventures), Christoph Ruedig (Albion VC), Harry Stebbings (Stride.VC), Fred Destin (Atlas Venture), Abhishek Sharma (Nexus Venture Partners), Thomas Noonan, Akshay Kothari, Girish Mathrubootham
Fellow - AI Meeting Assistant	Series AOct 2021$24M	$24M
Co-investors: Lainy Painter (Craft Ventures), David Sacks (Craft Ventures)