Lauren Kolodny

Lauren Kolodny is a Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Acrew Capital, a Bay Area VC firm, investing in early and late stage startups focused on fintech, community driven consumer, data platforms and cybersecurity. Lauren leads Acrew’s fintech thesis. Her early stage investments include Chime, Divvy Pay, Papaya Payments, La Haus, Pie Insurance, Lolli, Gusto and Paceline. Her later stage portfolio include Marqeta and Plaid. Previously, she was a Partner at Aspect Ventures and worked in product marketing at Google, where she led marketing for the launch of Google Drive. Kolodny began her career in clean technology partnership development for the Clinton Foundation in India. She is a Brown University trustee emerita and was on Forbes Midas Brink List in 2021.