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About Illuminate Ventures

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VC firm

First check

$1M to $1.5M

Lead

Always

Themes

machine vision
artificial intelligence
LLM
genAI
B2B2C
generative AI
subscription
deep learning
SMB
ML
machine learning
neural network
small and medium business
agents
big dataB2B
business to business
data science
recurring
smbs
b-to-b
small and medium businesses
b to b
SaaS
prosumer
enterprise
computer vision
business-to-business
AI
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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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