Investing Profile

Lainy Painter(1001)

VCInvestor
Partner at Craft Ventures
craftventures.com/team/lainy-...San Francisco, California
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63 Investors

Connected to Satya Patel (Homebrew), Aileen Lee (Cowboy Ventures), Charles Hudson (Precursor Ventures), and 60 other investors on Signal.

Networks Lainy is a member of
Goldman Sachs Network
313 CONNECTIONS
IBM Network
126 CONNECTIONS
Battery Ventures Network
55 CONNECTIONS
Battery Ventures Network
55 CONNECTIONS
The College of William and Mary Network
15 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position
Craft Ventures Partner
Investment Range
$50K - $25.0M
Sweet Spot
$12.5M
Investments On Record
19
Current Fund Size
$500M

Lainy Painter is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Lainy Painter's Investments On Record (17)

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

most interested in

Labor marketplaces and vertical markets. Vertical markets might include real estate, education, construction, healthcare, or any other large market that has been resistant to change.

not interested in

I've made a lot of SaaS investments in the past, but I'm interested in software companies that have a distribution hook.

Lainy Painter's Experience

Partner Craft VenturesPresent
Principal Craft VenturesPresent
Venture Investor Battery VenturesPresent
Business Operations GainsightPresent
Technology Investment Banking Goldman SachsPresent
Post-Baccalaureate Fellow, Boehly Center for Excellence in Finance W&M Sharpe Community ScholarsPresent
Federal Financial Analyst IBMPresent
Associate Battery Ventures2017 - 2018

Lainy Painter's Education

William & Mary Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Finance, Economics
The College of William and Mary BBA