Sean Whitney

Sean is a Principal on the Craft investing team, based in San Francisco. He is passionate about innovation in AI design & engineering – both in the physical and digital world – and his investment focus spans creative tools, developer tools, APIs, and both vertical and bottom-up software.

Prior to Craft, Sean was an early employee at Figma on the Finance & Business Operations team. During his time at Figma, Sean helped build out the Strategic Finance & Business Ops function by owning financial forecasting and performance management, assisting with capital raises, and driving other strategic projects such as sales operations, pricing & packaging, and partnerships. Sean also spent time at Figma on the GTM side overseeing self-serve strategy and funnel optimizations.

In addition to his operating experience, Sean spent the latter half of his tenure at Figma advising and investing in PLG SaaS businesses from Pre-Seed to Series C. Prior to that, Sean served a number of different functions at Enjoy after beginning his career in investment banking and private equity. Sean earned a Bachelor of Science at Cornell University where he played on the men's hockey team. He then went on to play professional hockey for one year, followed by recieving his Masters of Business Administration from Boston University.