Founder and Managing Partner at Illuminate Ventures · Joined 2009
View Live Interactive Profile →Cindy Padnos is the founder and Managing Partner of Illuminate Ventures, which she started in 2009 after serving as a director at Outlook Ventures. She brings about 25 years of high-tech industry experience, including founding and running the SaaS company Vivant!, which was acquired by Oracle, and serving as VP of marketing at Scopus Technology. She holds an MSIA/MBA with honors from Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business and an AB magna cum laude from the University of Michigan. She invests in enterprise and B2B cloud and mobile computing, with board seats at Bid Ops, BrightEdge, CafeX, nFlux and Pex. Illuminate lists her exits as including Xactly, Coupang, Sense Platform, Opsmatic and Allocadia.