DiscoverDreammakers with Neha SampatOpening the Door Wider: Cindy Padnos, Founder & Managing Partner of Illuminate Ventures
Opening the Door Wider: Cindy Padnos, Founder & Managing Partner of Illuminate Ventures

Opening the Door Wider: Cindy Padnos, Founder & Managing Partner of Illuminate Ventures

Update: 2021-07-23
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Host Neha Sampat, CEO of Contentstack, and Cindy Padnos, founder and Managing Partner of Illuminate Ventures, get together over a glass of wine and discuss the realities of capital raising and how to increase access to funds for underrepresented populations.

 

Illuminate Ventures is a seed and early stage venture capital firm that invests exclusively in enterprise/B2B software companies. Cindy has been working with enterprise tech startups for more than 25 years - as a founder/CEO of a VC-backed company, a startup operating executive, and more recently as an investor. She is also the author of 3 research-based, widely-cited white papers addressing gender diversity in the tech sector.

 

Neha and Cindy discuss:


  • How venture capital works

  • What investors look for in a startup

  • How to make your startup stand out from the rest

  • The importance of a strong network

  • Why startups fail

The Dreammakers enjoyed a glass of wine while they talked: Jean-Paul Droin Chablis Vaillons Premier Cru 2018. It's a Chablis from northern Burgundy, France. It’s floral and mineral with flavors of citrus, green apple, green olive and toast. It’s medium-bodied with sharp acidity.

 

Other show notes:

Follow Host Neha Sampat on LinkedIn and @nehasf

Follow Guest Cindy Padnos on LinkedIn and @IlluminateVC

Follow @Contentstack

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Opening the Door Wider: Cindy Padnos, Founder & Managing Partner of Illuminate Ventures

Opening the Door Wider: Cindy Padnos, Founder & Managing Partner of Illuminate Ventures

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