Illuminate Ventures

Illuminate Ventures

Oakland, Californiailluminate.com

Overview

Illuminate Ventures is an early-stage VC investor focused exclusively on B2B software companies . They focus on finding, funding, and accelerating visionary founders building game-changing companies in the B2B/Enterprise software computing space . Illuminate Ventures leads Series Seed investments, bringing resources to bear that are designed to help transform startups into market leaders . They focus on platforms and applications that leverage data and AI to quickly drive meaningful ROI .

Year Founded

2009

Portfolio Companies

18

Investments

CompanyDateStageLead
ProvarityDec 2024SeedCo-investor
ContentstackNov 2022Series CCo-investor
JacobiSep 2022Series A-
mPATHJun 2022SeedCo-investor
ArkestroJun 2022Series ACo-investor

Key People

Cindy Padnos

Founder Managing Partner

Jennifer Savage

Partner

Ankit Kaushik

Venture Capital

Austin Lignell

Venture Capital Intern

Tianyi Bai

Venture Capital Fellow

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SeedSeries ASeries BGrowth

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HeadquartersOakland, California
Year Founded2009

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