Cindy Padnos
7 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 8, 2025 by Cindy Padnos · across every show →
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May 8, 2025 neutral
Padnos: Female founders benefit more from diverse cap tables than female-only funds
“I don't know that I feel like you need to raise your capital necessarily from a firm that invests only in women. I know for me, that's not what I was looking for. I think there can be value in that for sure, but just like I believe in the diversity of a startu…”
May 8, 2025 positive
May 8, 2025 positive
Padnos: Illuminate reopened Fund I to admit a top foundation anchor
“We actually reopened our fund to bring them in, so it was really the final close, and then, of course, they became the anchor for our next fund, and we had the good fortune to have a wonderful relationship with them now in our third fund as well”
May 8, 2025 negative
May 8, 2025 positive
Padnos: 90% of Illuminate's 36+ Portfolio Companies Have Diverse Teams
“And lo and behold, we've ended up across the years now with three dozen or more investments we've made. 90% of those have diverse teams. And nearly half of them have a woman as one of the co-founders, which we're obviously very proud of and very excited about.”
May 8, 2025 negative
Padnos: VCs rate male founders higher in 13 of 16 success attributes
“The male and the female entrepreneurs responded to a long set of questions, almost identically. But when you ask the VCs, the question is a male or a female, what are the most important attributes first stack rank them? And then is a male or a female more like…”
May 8, 2025 positive
Padnos: Top founders get VC introductions by pre-writing forwardable email scripts
“They're really not only proactive about it, But they provide us with the tools that we need to make it easy for us to do. Meaning, they write the script and say, here's the email, just send to Sarah Fryer, who's now the CFO of OpenAI next week, who's been an a…”