Jenny Lawton is the co-founder of Old School Venture - a consulting firm that addresses the needs of scaling startups. Prior to Old School Venture, Jenny was an EVP at Bolster, focused on programming to coach and support startup CEOs to be scaling CEOs with high performing executive teams. Prior to Bolster, Jenny was the COO from September 2016 to June 2020 and was responsible for the day-to-day management of the company including sales, marketing, corporate engagement, engineering, and operations. Jenny currently sits on the board of Sphero, Scratch Foundation and the Board of Trustees of Union College and has also served on the board of Infinite Material Solutions, Adero, Greenwich Teen Center and the International Board of Entrepreneurs Organization (EO) as well as being an inductee in the Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame.

Prior to Techstars, Lawton served as the COO of littleBits and was responsible for the overall strategy and growth of the company, working with the CEO, Ayah Bdeir, to scale the company.  While at MakerBot from 2011 until 2015, she held several positions prior to being appointed interim CEO, including president, chief strategy officer and head of people.  At MakerBot, Lawton was instrumental in driving the company's meteoric growth of more than 600 percent in two years and she was one of the main architects in the merger between MakerBot and Stratasys in 2013.   

As a long-time tech leader, Lawton co-founded Net Daemons Associates (NDA) in 1991, an information technology-consulting firm. With Lawton as CEO, NDA was recognized on the 1998 Inc 500 list of the fastest growing privately held U.S. companies, and on the Deloitte and Touche Fast 50 and Fast 500 lists for 1997 and 1998. In 1999, Net Daemons was acquired by Interliant Inc. (formerly Sage Networks), where Lawton served as a senior vice president. She later worked as an entrepreneur-in-residence with Softbank and Mobius Venture Capital.