Lauren Kolodny
Founding Partner @ Acrew Capital
San Francisco, United States
Lauren Kolodny is a Series A investor at Acrew Capital in San Francisco focused on Financial Services and FinTech. Lauren Kolodny is based out of Palo Alto, California, and is the Founding Partner at Acrew Capital. Lauren previously served as the Partner at Aspect Ventures. Lauren Kolodny has received Forbes 30 Under 30 award.
- Total investments:
- 30
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 57%
Last updated:
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Industries Lauren Kolodny invests in
Stages Lauren Kolodny invests in
Countries Lauren Kolodny invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 11 (37%)
- FinTech 8 (27%)
- SaaS 4 (13%)
- Software 4 (13%)
- Insurance 4 (13%)
Stage
- Series A 11 (37%)
- Seed 6 (20%)
- Series B 5 (17%)
- Series C 2 (7%)
- Convertible Note 2 (7%)
Country
- United States 19 (63%)
- Mexico 1 (3%)
- Tanzania 1 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Savi Security aims to reimagine digital security for the AI future. | $7M / Seed / Jul 07, 2026 | ||
| Catena Labs incubate independent products spanning identity, communications, AI, and commerce. The company's mission is to empower people with agency, safety, value, and joy online. | $30M / Series A / May 20, 2026 | ||
| Catalog is the data infrastructure powering agentic commerce.As shopping shifts from websites to AI-driven interfaces, brands need product data that machines can understand, not just humans. Catalog ingests a brand’s existing catalog, enriches it with structured attributes, context, and real-time signals, and delivers it in formats optimized forAI systems.This enables products to be accurately understood, matched to shopper intent, and recommended across AI surfaces such as ChatGPT and emerging commerce protocols.Catalog also provides an AI storefront - a parallel experience designed specifically for AI agents - ensuring that when machines access a product page, they receive clean, structured, and up-to-date information without impacting the human shopping experience.By transforming raw product data into machine-readable intelligence, Catalog helps brands increase visibility, improve recommendation quality, and compete in a world where AI is becoming the primary interface for discovery and purchase. | $3M / Pre-Seed / Mar 24, 2026 | ||
| Alix is powering wealth across generations. Over the next 2 decades $84 trillion of wealth will be transferred within families. Alix is the platform and service provider to make that transfer totally seamless so those families can focus on what’s most important, each other. | $20M / Series A / Jul 21, 2025 | ||
| Glide operates as a fintech platform that modernize community banks and credit unions. | $15M / Series A / May 08, 2025 | ||
| Nala is a FinTech company developing a mobile payments application to simplify money transfers and transactions without data connectivity. Their services include financial inclusion, digital financial services, mobile money, and fintech. | $40M / Series A / Jul 09, 2024 | ||
| Vellum is a data and analytics platform built specifically for the insurance and reinsurance industry. | $7M / Seed / Oct 10, 2023 | ||
| Afterparty is a technology company behind the new Web3 platform enabling creators to directly monetize and manage NFT collector relationships | $5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 19, 2023 | ||
| Meanwhile is a licensed and regulated life insurance business. | $19M / Seed / Jun 06, 2023 | ||
| Pie Insurance is a workers’ compensation insurance company that provides workers’ comp coverage to small businesses through a simple online experience. The company offering A.M. Best A-rated insurance that leverages data analytics, easy-to-use online features, and a seasoned team of insurance experts to revolutionize workers’ comp for smallbusinesses.As a technology-enabled workers’ compensation insurance company, Pie leverages extensive, high-quality data sets to segment and price small business policies, accurately assessing risks and passing savings on to small business owners. It intends to use the funds for the continued growth and expansion of its offering to small business owners and conduct strategic initiatives to form and purchase licensed insurance companies.Pie began selling workers comp insurance policies direct to customers in 2018. The company is led by co-founder and CEO John Swigart. | $315M / Series D / Sep 21, 2022 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Acrew Capital
Acrew Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in companies across various industries at different stages of growth. It focuses on building long-term partnerships with entrepreneurs and supporting technology growth companies. The firm seeks to diversify perspectives and cap tables while investing in transformative businesses.
Acrew Capital Contacts
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John Gardner
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Lauren Kolodny
Founding Partner
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Richard Wolpert
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Theresia Gouw
Founding Partner
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Aliisa Rosenthal
General Partner
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What does Lauren Kolodny invest in?
Lauren Kolodny invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 30 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Lauren Kolodny closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 30 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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