Illuminate Ventures
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Illuminate Ventures is a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage investments in B2B/Enterprise software companies, particularly those leveraging data and AI. It typically leads Series Seed rounds and often serves as a startup's first institutional investor.
Illuminate Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in United States. It invests directly in companies, at seed, in B2B/Enterprise software, applied AI, SaaS applications and cloud infrastructure.
“Illuminate’s focus is on finding, funding, and accelerating visionary founders building game-changing companies in the B2B/Enterprise software computing space.”
— Illuminate Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Stage
- Seed
- Headquarters
- United States
- Invests in
- North America
- Sectors
- B2B/Enterprise software, applied AI, SaaS applications, cloud infrastructure, data analytics, technology-enabled services
Team, as Illuminate Ventures publishes it
- Cindy Padnos Founder and Managing Partner
- Jennifer Savage Partner
Names and roles exactly as listed on illuminate.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 47 co-investors found.
- Cervin Ventures Management, LLC 3 shared companies: arkestro.com, bidops.com, bedrockanalytics.com
- DAG Ventures 2 shared companies: cloudera.com, newrelic.com
- Astella Investimentos 1 shared company: birdie.ai
- Fusion Fund 1 shared company: birdie.ai
- Golden Ventures 1 shared company: influitive.com
- Lightspeed Venture Partners 1 shared company: influitive.com
- Resolute Ventures 1 shared company: influitive.com
- Clayton, Dubilier & Rice 1 shared company: cloudera.com
- Darwin Ventures, LLC 1 shared company: cloudera.com
- Glynn Capital Management, LLC 1 shared company: cloudera.com
and 37 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Illuminate Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://illuminate.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, stage_min, stage_max, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, status, confidence
- https://illuminate.com/team-2/invests_in_geographies, sectors, people
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Record 3703 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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