Cindy Padnos

Managing Partner, Illuminate Ventures

Cindy leverages over 25 years of high-tech industry experience, as the founder and Managing Partner of Illuminate Venture.

She has been an active member of the venture capital community since 2002. Prior to founding Illuminate, she was a director of Outlook Ventures where she was one of three investment professionals responsible for committing the firm’s $140 million fund. During her tenure, Ms. Padnos sourced and led investments in companies in the IT infrastructure, software/SaaS, consumer Internet and mobile application spaces building a track record of performance.

Ms. Padnos received her MSIA/MBA, with honors, from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, with honors, and her AB, magna cum laude, from the University of Michigan.

Danielle Morrill

Founder, Mattermark

Danielle is the Founder & CEO of Mattermark.

She is a product and marketing leader with deep experience in developer tools, global logistics, and online marketplaces.

In 2009 she was recruited to join Twilio as the first employee and Director of Marketing. The telecommunications infrastructure startup is now the market leader for web-based cloud communications infrastructure.   In 2007 she served as Community Program Manager at Pelago,  which was later acquired by Groupon. In 2005 I began my professional career at Expeditors International, a Fortune 500 global 3rd party logistics company, as a Business Process Analyst.  

Danielle is passionate about unlocking greater meaning in day-to-day activities and transactions through beautifully crafted products.

Angela Tran Kingyens

VC , Version One Ventures

Angela is a VC at Version One Ventures, an early-stage fund investing in outstanding consumer internet, SaaS and mobile entrepreneurs throughout North-America. Angela is responsible for managing the day-to-day activities of the fund, including identifying new and interesting entrepreneurs and companies in their three focus areas. She also works with our existing portfolio companies on data and hiring projects.

Prior to version One Angela launched Insight, a YC education startup which that helps recent PhD graduates transition from academic research to careers in industry via a six-week program focused on data science. 

Angela obtained her Bachelor of Applied science in Biomedical Engineering, her Master of Applied Science and a PhD in Operations Research and Engineering from the University of Toronto

Lisa Falzone

Founder, Revel Systems

Lisa is the CEO and co-founder of Revel Systems, the award-winning leader in iPad point-of-sale (POS) systems for restaurant, retail and grocery.

Since starting the company from the ground up in 2010, Lisa has been an entrepreneur in the truest sense of the word. She leads the day-to-day business operations and spearheads new business growth, and has also been instrumental in securing more than $13M in venture capital funding to date and assisting in international expansion of the San Francisco-based startup. Prior to Revel she worked in private equity.

Lisa has been recognized as Forbes ’30 Under 30’ as well as San Francisco Business Times ’40 Under 40’ and ‘Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business.

Lisa is a graduate from Stanford and also studied at Oxford.