Investing Profile

Cindy Padnos(1)

VCFormer CEOFounderMarketing Operator
Seed Stage B2B/Enterprise software investor
illuminate.comOakland, California
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University of Michigan Network
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Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business Network
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Illuminate Ventures Managing Partner
$250K - $1.5M
$1M
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$27M
CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Perceptive Panda
Pre-SeedJan 2024
MPathic
SeedApr 2023$5.2M
$5.2M
Co-investors: Dan Ellis
Contentstack
Series CNov 2022$80M
Series BJun 2021$58M
BMar 2021$56
SeedMar 2020$2
Series AOct 2019$32M
AFeb 2019$31
SeedNov 2018
$170M
Co-investors: Teddie Wardi (Insight Partners), Linnea Roberts (GingerBread Capital)
Arkestro
Series AJun 2022$26M
SeedDec 2021$3M
SeedMar 2019$2M
$31M
Co-investors: Scott Sandell (New Enterprise Associates (NEA)), Jeff Immelt (New Enterprise Associates (NEA)), Taylor Oliver (Tenacity Venture Capital)
Birdie
SeedFeb 2022$7M
$8.4M
Co-investors: Edson Rigonatti (Astella), Patrick Arippol (DGF Investimentos)
Pex
Series AFeb 2021$57M
SeedOct 2017$7M
$64M
Co-investors: Leo Polovets (Susa Ventures), Patrick Murphy (Semble Ventures)
nFlux AI
SeedJul 2020$3M
$3.1M
Co-investors: Aviel Ginzburg (Founders' Co-op)
Joinder
Pre SeedJan 2020
Great B2B/enterprise software teams.
We do not invest in B2C/consumer Internet companies.
Founder & Managing Partner Illuminate VenturesPresent
Founder & CEO Vivant2001
VP Marketing Scopus Technology (Acquired by Siebel and, later, Oracle)1998
Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business MSIA/MBA
University of Michigan AB
Kingswood School Cranbrook