Lauren Kolodny is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Acrew Capital where she leads the firm’s fintech practice. Lauren led the 2016 Series A round in Chime. Other investments include Clara, Divvy (acquired by Bill.com), Gusto, Klar, Nala, and Pie Insurance among others.

Previously, Lauren was a partner at Aspect Ventures. She also worked in product marketing at Google leading a number of launches for Google Workspace, including Google Drive.

Lauren began her career building tech partnerships for the Clinton Foundation in India. While there, she witnessed some of the earliest entrepreneurial activity around mobile money, and developed a strong belief in the opportunity for fintech to drive financial inclusion around the world.

Lauren was featured on the 2024 and 2023 Forbes Midas Lists as one of the world’s top 100 VCs. Lauren is a Trustee Emerita at Brown University, where she served as the university’s youngest board member.