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About Illuminate Ventures

Investor type

VC firm

First check

$1M to $1.5M

Lead

Always

Themes

business to business
b-to-b
enterprise
SMB
machine vision
subscription
big data AIB2B genAI
generative AI
b to b
agents
small and medium businesses
SaaS
recurring
B2B2C
small and medium business
computer vision
ML
neural network
LLM
data science
artificial intelligence
machine learning
smbs
business-to-business
prosumer
deep learning
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Funding Stages

3. Early Revenue

Countries of investment

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Who we are

Illuminate Ventures is a B2B AI Seed-stage venture capital firm that accelerated successes like Xactly, BrightEdge, and Contentstack. Illuminate manages $50M+ AUM and invests in startups with initial market traction that value our operating expertise and Advisory Council to catalyze their growth.

Funding Requirements

We invest in B2B/Enterprise AI/SaaS companies at Seed stage with a particular focus on founders who have demonstrated meaningful customer traction before raising significant institutional capital.

Value add

All partners are former founders/operators at companies like Scopus (IPO), DocuSign (IPO) and Smartsheet (IPO). We complement our experience and networks with about 40 Advisors who collectively have sat on over 100 public company boards, and 250 private company boards.

Locations

94611 Oakland, California, California, US HQ

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