Investing Profile

Lainy Painter(1003)

VCInvestor

Partner at Craft Ventures

craftventures.com/team/lainy-...San Francisco, California

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Lainy Painter's investing connections

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

649 CONNECTIONS

IBM Network

233 CONNECTIONS

Battery Ventures Network

73 CONNECTIONS

Battery Ventures Network

73 CONNECTIONS

William & Mary Network

31 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position

Craft Ventures Partner

Investment Range

$50K - $25.0M

Sweet Spot

$12.5M

Investments On Record

Current Fund Size

$500M

Lainy Painter is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

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Lainy Painter's Investments On Record (17)

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), Jomayra Herrera (Reach Capital), 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), Ron Pragides, Jett McCandless, William Hockey
Arcol	Series AJul 2024	$6M
Co-investors: Ted Wang (Cowboy Ventures), John Lilly (Greylock), Matthew Ball (Makers Fund), Packy McCormick (Not Boring Capital), 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 Ventures), 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 (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), Christoph Ruedig (AlbionVC), 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), Thomas Noonan, Girish Mathrubootham, Akshay Kothari
Fellow	Series AOct 2021$24M	$54M
Co-investors: Peter Fenton (Benchmark), Elena (Lainy) Painter (Craft Ventures), David Sacks (Craft Ventures)

Lainy Painter's Media (4)

Announcing Craft III: $1.1 Billion for SaaS and Marketplaces

medium.com

Learning technologies could reduce automation’s economic threat – TechCrunch

techcrunch.com

How to build a business-focused ‘cloud-commerce’ marketplace for the less-sexy economy – TechCrunch

techcrunch.com

The Realtors' Last Hurrah

www.forbes.com

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

Federal Financial Analyst IBMPresent

Post-Baccalaureate Fellow, Boehly Center for Excellence in Finance W&M Sharpe Community ScholarsPresent

Technology Investment Banking Goldman SachsPresent

Business Operations GainsightPresent

Venture Investor Battery VenturesPresent

Principal Craft VenturesPresent

Partner Craft VenturesPresent

Associate Battery Ventures2017 - 2018

Lainy Painter's Education