Investing Profile

Lainy Painter(942)

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

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

Battery Ventures Network
36 CONNECTIONS
The College of William and Mary Network
13 CONNECTIONS
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$50K - $25.0M
$12.5M
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$500M
CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Cartwheel
Series UnknownMay 2025$10M
$40M
Co-investors: Greg Yap (Menlo Ventures), Minnie Ingersoll (TenOneTen Ventures), Craig Cummings (Moonshots Capital), Elena (Lainy) Painter (Craft Ventures), Samara Hernandez (Chingona Ventures), Amjad Masad, Drew Houston
Vooma
Series ADec 2024$14M
$18M
Co-investors: Elena (Lainy) Painter (Craft Ventures), Ron Pragides, Jett McCandless, William Hockey
Bandana
SeedSep 2023$4M
$13M
Co-investors: Andrea Wang (General Catalyst), Max Rimpel (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), Gordon Wintrob
Entera
Series AJun 2021$32M
SeedNov 2019$8M
$40M
Co-investors: Eric Wiesen (Bullpen Capital), Elena (Lainy) Painter (Craft Ventures)
Plume Clinic
Series AFeb 2021$14M
$38M
Co-investors: Jenna Ciotti (Transformation Capital), Elena (Lainy) Painter (Craft Ventures)
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)
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.
I've made a lot of SaaS investments in the past, but I'm interested in software companies that have a distribution hook.
Associate Battery Ventures2017 - 2018
The College of William and Mary BBA