Investing Profile

Lainy Painter(997)

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
309 CONNECTIONS
IBM Network
125 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: Holly Maloney McConnell (General Catalyst), Daniel Levine (Accel), 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), Drew Houston, Akshay Kothari
Vooma
Series ADec 2024$14M
$18M
Co-investors: Nina Achadjian (Index Ventures), Elena (Lainy) Painter (Craft Ventures), Ryan Hrabak (Craft Ventures), Ron Pragides
Arcol
Series AJul 2024
$6M
Co-investors: John Lilly (Greylock), Sean Whitney (Craft Ventures), Elena (Lainy) Painter (Craft Ventures), Packy McCormick (Breather), Ted Wang (ICONIQ Capital), Dylan Field
Bandana
SeedSep 2023$4M
$13M
Co-investors: Andrea Wang (General Catalyst), Niko Bonatsos (General Catalyst), Elena (Lainy) Painter (Craft Ventures), Sarah Smith (Stanford University)
Sensible
SeedNov 2022$7M
$11M
Co-investors: Jack Altman (Benchmark), Melody Koh (NextView Ventures), Elena (Lainy) Painter (Craft Ventures), Ashmeet Sidana (Engineering Capital), Chad Nitschke
Explo
Series AAug 2022$12M
$14M
Co-investors: Sri Pangulur (Tribe Capital), Gokul Rajaram (gokulrajaram.com), Elena (Lainy) Painter (Craft Ventures)
Pando
SeedApr 2022$5M
$51M
Co-investors: Mar Hershenson (Pear VC), Caitlin Strandberg (Lerer Hippeau), Mohanjit Jolly (DFJ), Harry Stebbings (Stride.VC), Fred Destin (Atlas Venture), Elena (Lainy) Painter (Craft Ventures), Clint Korver (Ulu Ventures), Miriam Rivera (Ulu Ventures), Kathleen Utecht (Core Innnovation Capital), Christoph Ruedig (Albion VC), Akshay Kothari
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