| Website | illuminate.com |
| @IlluminateVC | |
| Phone | 510.531.6202 |
| Employees | 4 |
| Founded | 2009 |
| Description | Early Stage B2B Cloud Computing Investor |
| Illuminate Ventures I, 4/12 | $8.5M |
Illuminate Ventures is an early stage VC firm led by a team of experienced investors with significant operating and investment track records. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, the firm invests in US-based high growth, capital efficient companies in selected sectors within the high-tech landscape. We work closely with founders to support them in building truly great companies. We have been there ourselves and know that a team-based approach delivers the best results.
Led by serial entrepreneur and successful investor Cindy Padnos, the firm also benefits from a world class 30+ person Business Advisory Council made up of some of the most successful members of the high-tech ecosystem including founders like Donna Dubinsky (Palm Computing, Handspring) and Diane Greene (VMWare, VXtreme), senior corporate executives and board members in companies like Adobe, Dell, IBM, Microsoft and Symantec and venture industry veterans - all of whom work closely with the firm and with the founding teams in our portfolio.
Illuminate team members have helped successfully build companies to deliver positive returns through IPOs and M&A transactions both as investors and as operating managers in a variety of sectors including real-time analytics digital media, SaaS/cloud computing infrastructure and applications, Internet/Web 2.0 applications, security, technology enabled services and mobile and wireless communications.
| Company | Date | Round | Size | Participants |
| BrightEdge | 3/12 | Series C | $12.6M | 4 |
| Xactly | 7/10 | Series E | $7.5M | 5 |
| Red Aril | 7/09 | Venture Round | 3 | |
| Wild Pockets | 5/09 | Venture Round | 2 |
