Cindy Padnos
Managing Partner at Illuminate Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Founder & Managing Partner
2009 - Current
Illuminate Ventures invests in "further along" Seed-stage companies delivering B2B/enterprise software solutions with rapid, measurable ROI.
Investor & Board Member
2018
Arkestro is a predictive procurement software for businesses to boost savings and supply chain performance.
Raised $27,950,000.00 from Construct Capital, El Cap Holdings, Cervin Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Tenacity Venture Capital, Correlation Ventures, Four More Capital, Forum Ventures, Illuminate Ventures and Koch Disruptive Technologies.
Investor & Board Member
2022
Investor & Board Member
2008
BrightEdge, an SEO platform delivering an uplifted ROI, enables marketers to increase revenue from organic search.
Raised $61,900,000.00 from Insight Partners, Illuminate Ventures, Intel Capital, Battery Ventures and Altos Ventures.
Investor & Board Member
2017
Pex is a digital rights technology company.
Raised $64,000,000.00 from Susa Ventures, NextGen Venture Partners, Tapestry VC, Illuminate Ventures, Amaranthine, Cue Ball, Evolution VC Partners, Tencent Music Entertainment and Tencent.
Investor
2015
Bedrock Analytics SaaS application for the CPG vertical leverages ML to assist sales managers in automating selling pitches for retail.
Raised $7,000,000.00 from L'ATTITUDE Ventures.
Investor
2018
Contentstack is the leading composable digital experience platform (DXP) provider used by enterprises to deliver digital experiences.
Raised $169,000,000.00 from Georgian, Insight Partners and Illuminate Ventures.
Investor
2019
Investor
2012
Raydiant is the leading in-location experience platform for the world's largest brands
Raised $70,234,358.00 from Illuminate Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, XRC Ventures, Atomic, Haveli, Gaingels, 8VC, Mark Wahlberg and CABRA VC.
Investor
2022
Business In The Loop™ AI/GenAI Platform
Raised $6,200,000.00 from Illuminate Ventures, Handshake Ventures, Diffusion Capital Partners, Foothill Ventures, Alchemist Accelerator and Diffusion Capital Partners.