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

126 CONNECTIONS

The College of William and Mary Network

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Gainsight 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: 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), Lainy Painter (Craft Ventures), Sean Whitney (Craft Ventures), 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), 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), Lainy Painter (Craft Ventures), Sean Whitney (Craft Ventures), Dylan Field
Bandana	SeedSep 2023$4M	$13M
Co-investors: Andrea Wang (General Catalyst), Niko Bonatsos (General Catalyst), Max Rimpel (Index Ventures), 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), Lainy Painter (Craft Ventures), Ashmeet Sidana (Engineering Capital), Chad Nitschke, Gordon Wintrob
Explo	Series AAug 2022$12M	$14M
Co-investors: Sri Pangulur (Tribe Capital), 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), 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), Lainy Painter (Craft Ventures)