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Cindy Padnos

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Cindy Padnos is founder and managing partner of Illuminate Ventures, an early stage Micro VC firm focused on cloud computing. Current investments and board seats include BrightEdge, CalmSea, Hoopla, and Xactly. Cindy has deployed over $100 million in venture funding to help dozens of start-ups reach successful outcomes including prior portfolio companies Red Aril (acq. Hearst Corporation) and WildPockets (acq. Autodesk).

Named one of the Most Influential Women in Technology (Fast Company) and one of the Most Influential Women in Business in the Bay Area (San Francisco Business Times), Cindy’s high tech career includes successful stints as a management consultant (Booz), VP of Marketing (Scopus, IPO) and founder/CEO (Vivant, acq. EVLV/ORCL).

Cindy is on the Board of Advisors for Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business where she received her MBA/MSIA and is a graduate of the University of Michigan where she recently offered the College of Engineering commencement address.

Recent Milestones

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  Cindy Padnos added a position as Board Member at CalmSea. (1/1/10)
  Posted 4/18/11 at 3:38pm
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  Cindy Padnos — Board Member - CalmSea, Inc. (1/1/10)
  Posted 9/17/10 at 3:11pm via calmseainc.com
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  Cindy Padnos added a position as Board Member at BrightEdge. (1/1/08)
  Posted 9/21/10 at 11:33am
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  Cindy Padnos added a position as Board Member at Wild Pockets. (1/1/08)
  Posted 9/21/10 at 11:33am
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  Cindy Padnos added a position as Founder &Managing Partner at Illuminate Ventures. (1/1/06)
  Posted 9/21/10 at 11:37am
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  Cindy Padnos added a position as Board Member at Xactly Corp. (1/1/05)
  Posted 9/21/10 at 11:33am
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  Cindy Padnos — Founder & CEO, Vivant Corporation (1/1/99)
  Posted 9/17/10 at 3:07pm via bit.ly
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  Cindy Padnos — CEO, Acumen International (1/1/96)
  Posted 9/17/10 at 3:08pm via thefreelibrary.com
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  Cindy Padnos added a position as Founder & CEO at Vivant.
  Posted 4/18/11 at 3:39pm
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  Cindy Padnos added a position as Director at Outlook Ventures.
  Posted 12/1/08 at 1:36am
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  Cindy Padnos added a position as VP Marketing at Scopus Technology.
  Posted 9/21/10 at 11:33am
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  Cindy Padnos added a position as President & CEO at Acumen.
  Posted 4/18/11 at 3:40pm

Videos

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Forbes: We Need More Female Venture Capitalists (bit.ly) [edit]
McCracken Joins Board of Acumen (thefreelibrary.com) [edit]
calmseainc.com [edit]