Posted by: AJ Smith
Posted on 07/18/2022
Leura Craig is a former founder and experienced investor who previously bootstrapped two startups as founding CEO. Her most recent startup, Laurel & Wolf, raised more than $30M from CRV, Benchmark, and other leading investors, and scaled to serve tens of thousands of customers across the United States.
Since 2015, Leura has invested in dozens of early-stage companies and advises founding teams on product strategy, operations, customer growth, design, hiring, and achieving product-market fit. Her investing focuses on sectors shaping the next decade of innovation, including the future of work, future of commerce, hardware and robotics, and AI. She is passionate about expanding access to venture capital and works to fund and support diverse founders and entrepreneurs emerging from non-traditional markets.
Outside of her work in venture capital, Leura is actively involved in community and education initiatives in New York and volunteers with programs supporting her children’s school and the 92NY community. She was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list and Goldman Sachs’ “100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs.”