Investing Profile

Lainy Painter(940)

VCInvestor

Principal at Craft Ventures

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

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Lainy Painter's investing connections

61 Investors

Connected to Aileen Lee (Cowboy Ventures), Charles Hudson (Precursor Ventures), Josh Elman, and 58 other investors on Signal.

Networks Lainy is a member of

Battery Ventures Network

36 CONNECTIONS

The College of William and Mary Network

12 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 (7)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Vooma	Series ADec 2024$14M	$18M
Co-investors: Elena (Lainy) Painter (Craft Ventures), William Hockey, Ron Pragides, Jett McCandless
Bandana	SeedSep 2023$4M	$13M
Co-investors: Max Rimpel (General Catalyst), Andrea Wang (General Catalyst), Niko Bonatsos (General Catalyst), Elena (Lainy) Painter (Craft Ventures), Sarah Smith (Sarah Smith Fund)
Sensible	SeedNov 2022$7M	$11M
Co-investors: Melody Koh (NextView Ventures), Anne van Laarhoven (Graduate Entrepreneur), Elena (Lainy) Painter (Craft Ventures), Ashmeet Sidana (Engineering Capital), Jack Altman (Alt Capital), Gordon Wintrob, Chad Nitschke
Entera	Series AJun 2021$32M SeedNov 2019$8M	$40M
Co-investors: Elena (Lainy) Painter (Craft Ventures), Eric Wiesen (Bullpen Capital), David Sacks (Craft Ventures)
Plume Clinic	Series AFeb 2021$14M	$38M
Co-investors: Elena (Lainy) Painter (Craft Ventures), Jenna Ciotti (Transformation Capital)
BounceX	Series BMay 2018$37M	$37M
Prodigy	SeedFeb 2018$5.4M	$18M
Co-investors: Jake Medwell (8VC), Arjun Sethi (Tribe Capital), Andrew Vigneault (Flexcap), Baris Ozaydinli (Ascension Ventures), Omar Darwazah (AAF Management Ltd.), Lucas Vaz (Ravelin Capital)

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

Associate Battery Ventures2017 - 2018

Lainy Painter's Education

The College of William and Mary BBA

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