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About Investor

Cindy Padnos is the Managing Partner at Illuminate Ventures, where she focuses on investments in Human Capital/HRTech, Sales & CRM, SMB Software, MarketingTech, Cloud Infrastructure, AI, Enterprise Infrastructure, Enterprise Applications, LegalTech, and SaaS companies at Seed stage with an investment range of $250K - $1.5M. Padnos founded Illuminate Ventures and has 25 years of high tech industry experience, primarily in the Enterprise/B2B cloud and mobile computing sectors with emphasis on SaaS applications and platforms. She is a strong advocate for diversity in tech, having conducted research on gender differences in entrepreneurship and serving as a board director for multiple companies. Padnos is based in Oakland, California and is recognized as a leading female founder and investor in the enterprise software space.