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.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 47 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- 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 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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