Lauren Kolodny

Lauren is a Founding Partner at Acrew Capital. Lauren leads investments in fintech and SaaS. Prior to founding Acrew, Lauren was a partner at Aspect Ventures. Investments that she has led or co-sponsored include Chime, Deserve, Divvy, EvidentID, Finix, Future Family, Grain, Gusto, Klar, Papaya Payments, Pie Insurance, TalkIQ (acquired by Dialpad), and Tara.ai. Previously, Lauren worked in product marketing at Google, where she led a number of launches for GSuite, including Google Drive. Lauren began her career building tech and finance partnerships for the Clinton Foundation in India. Lauren is a Trustee Emerita at Brown University where she served as the university’s youngest board member. She is currently a member of the President’s Leadership Council and the Advisory Committee on Computing and Information Technology, where she continues to advise university leadership on digital strategy. Lauren was named one of Forbes 30 Under 30 for Venture Capital in 2016.