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Cynthia Padnos is the Founder and Managing Partner of Illuminate Ventures, focusing primarily on Enterprise/B2B cloud and mobile computing sectors. She has a particular emphasis on SaaS applications and platforms, solutions leveraging big data for business impact, and new business models that accelerate customer acquisition. Some of her previous investments include Allocadia, Bedrock Analytics, BrightEdge, ChannelEyes, Hoopla Software, Peerlyst, Xactly, and Yozio. Cynthia Padnos invests between $250K to $1.5M per company and follows a collaboration style deeply integrated in the high tech community with longstanding relationships of trust with successful entrepreneurs and co-investors.
Location: San Francisco, CA
Country: Netherlands
Industries: Not available
Investment Regions: EU, LATAM, NA, OC, SEA
Investment Stages: pre-seed, seed
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EU, LATAM, NA, OC, SEA
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Status: very-active
AI Reasoning: Signal/NFX shows a recorded investment in Oct 2025 (Intelo) and multiple investments in Dec 2024 and Oct 2024. The most recent known investment is Oct 2025 which is less than 6 months before the reference date, indicating very recent activity. For example, the Oct 2025 investment is in Intelo.
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