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What does Illuminate Ventures invest in?
Illuminate Ventures invests most often at Series A and Seed (65% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Enterprise, Computer Vision and SaaS.
Illuminate Ventures highlights
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38 rounds on record
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Mostly Series A and Seed: 65% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 3 rounds, median $11M
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4 exits from the portfolio
What they do
Illuminate Ventures leads Series Seed investments, bringing resources to bear that are designed to help transform startups into market leaders.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $1.0M – $1.5M as they say
- Stages
- SeedSeries A
- Sectors
- EnterpriseComputer VisionSaaS
- Based in
- Piedmont, United States
- Cold pitches
- Accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first38 appearances
- 2019
4 rounds
- Oct
- Jul
- May
- Mar
- 2018
2 rounds
- Jun
- Apr
- 2017
1 round
- Sept
- 2015
5 rounds
- Dec
- Jul
- Jul
- May
- Mar
- 2014
10 rounds
- Dec
- Dec
- Oct
- Jul
- Jun
- May
- May
- Apr
- Mar
- Feb
- 2013
2 rounds
- Jun
- Jun
- 2012
5 rounds
- Dec
- Sept
- Aug
- Jun
- Mar
- 2011
1 round
- Jan
- 2010
2 rounds
- Jul
- Mar
- 2009
2 rounds
- Jul
- May
- 2008
2 rounds
- Aug
- Apr
- 2007
1 round
- Apr
- 2006
1 round
- Mar
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration2 named
CBCynthia Beth PadnosManaging Member of the General PartneriFiling they signed
JSJennifer SavageManaging Member of the General PartneriFiling they signed
We also hold 4 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$102Mgross assets of its fundsOct 2026
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- Illuminate Management, L.L.C.
- SEC number
- CRD 160469
What they claim to have backed
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed4 in all
OpsmaticBought by New RelicUndisclosedNov 2015
CalmSeaBought by CoupangUndisclosedMay 2014
Red ArilBought by iCrossingUndisclosedDec 2011
Wild PocketsBought by AutodeskUndisclosedDec 2010
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.