Illuminate Ventures

Jennifer Savage, Partner Illuminate Ventures and Xuhui Shao, Managing Partner Foothill Ventures: Horizontal versus Vertical AI and Defensible AI Moats in B2B

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Jennifer Savage, Partner Illuminate Ventures Jennifer Savage is a Partner at Illuminate Ventures, a B2B Seed-stage venture capital firm behind early successes like Xactly, Coupang, BrightEdge, and Contentstack. She leads new investments, advises portfolio companies on strategy and operations, and serves on the boards of Brevity, TAZI AI, Pyze, and mpathic. A seasoned B2B software … Read more

Cindy Padnos, Illuminate Ventures and Itamar Novick Recursive Ventures: B2B AI Investing

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Cindy Padnos, Founder/Managing Partner Illuminate Ventures Cindy Padnos, Founder/Managing Partner Illuminate Ventures, a Seed-stage VC platform investing in “further-along” B2B software companies throughout North America. Across her 15-year investing career, Cindy has led or co-led Seed stage investments in nearly three dozen companies, many of which have gained strategic exits – including 2 successful IPOs … Read more