Illuminate Venture Partners
Illuminate Venture Partners is a Seed, Series A venture capital firm based in Oakland, CA investing in SaaS, Enterprise, Other. The firm typically writes $250K–$1.5M checks and has 19 portfolio companies in our records.
Seed, Series A
$250K – $1.5M
$41M
19+ companies
2 partners
Investment Thesis
Targets early-stage enterprise cloud and SaaS applications that disrupt traditional workflows with data insights or automation.
How Illuminate Venture Partners invests
Illuminate Venture Partners is a vc firm based in Oakland, CA. The firm invests at the Seed, Series A stages, with a focus on SaaS, Enterprise, Other. It does not invest in Consumer, Hardware.
Illuminate Venture Partners typically writes checks of $250K–$1.5M per investment, backed by approximately $41M in assets under management.
Illuminate Venture Partners has backed 19 companies in our records, including Intacct, BrightEdge, BrightEdge Technologies.
Meet the Team
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Invests In
Does Not Invest In
Portfolio Companies (19)
Other
Intacct
BrightEdge
BrightEdge Technologies
Xactly Corporation
Contentstack
Coupang
Continual IO
Sense Platform
Joinder
nFlux
- •Raising at Seed, Series A? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in SaaS, Enterprise, Other — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $250K – $1.5M check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Cindy Padnos, Founder & Managing Partner.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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