Cindy Padnos is the founder of Illuminate Ventures, a Series Seed stage venture capital firm that invests exclusively in AI-enabled enterprise/B2B software companies. With three flagship funds under management, Illuminate continues to invest in and support talented entrepreneurs re-inventing how work gets done. Her successful exits have included IPOs for Xactly Corp (then acquired by Vista) and Coupang and acquisitions by PE firms and market leaders like Autodesk, Cloudera, Hearst Corp, and New Relic.Cindy is an innovator and an advocate for all things entrepreneurial. She has been working with enterprise technology startups for more than 25 years - as a founder/CEO of a VC-backed company, a startup operating executive, and an investor. Cindy bleeds B2B/Enterprise Tech – gaining the moniker “Queen B2B” and a place at the table with other top institutional investors in the category. She is also the author of three research-based, widely-sited white papers addressing gender diversity in the tech sector.