Jennifer Savage
Investor at Illuminate Ventures
Greater Seattle Area
Overview
Work Experience
Brevity - Your A.I. Sales Coach - Practice Preventing deals from stalling, ghosting or No Decision
Board Member
2025 - Current
Partner
2019
Illuminate Ventures invests in "further along" Seed-stage companies delivering B2B/enterprise software solutions with rapid, measurable ROI.
Board Observer
2022
Board Member
2022
Business In The Loop™ AI/GenAI Platform
Raised $6,200,000.00 from Illuminate Ventures, Handshake Ventures, Diffusion Capital Partners, Foothill Ventures, Alchemist Accelerator and Diffusion Capital Partners.
Board Member
2021
Member Board of Trustees, Investment Committee
2023
University of Oregon Foundation is a nonprofit corporation responsible for administering private gifts made to the University's mission.
Vice President of Marketing
2017 - 2019
Ran marketing for bootstrapped, software-based telecom company from declining to increasing year over year growth through to acquisition. (acquired by West Corporation in August, 2018)
Provider of advanced calling and messaging services for cloud-based companies.
Vice President, Product & Partner Marketing
2014 - 2017
Oversaw product and partner marketing for SaaS Collaborative Work Management leader through growth to over $70M revenue and 400+ people. (NYSE: SMAR)
Smartsheet is a cloud-based work management platform that empowers collaboration, drives better decision-making, and accelerates innovation.
Raised $3,352,212,627.00 from Benefit Street Partners, Teachers’ Venture Growth, Elliott Investment Management, Brinley Partners, Hercules Capital, Farallon Capital Management, GoldenTree Asset Management, Monroe Capital and Canyon Partners.
Director, Product Marketing
2011 - 2014
Led product marketing initiatives for pioneer of eSignature and Digital Transaction Management through double digit growth and expansion of category definition. (NASDAQ: DOCU)
DocuSign Seattle Area is a software industry.
Director, Product Marketing / Product Management
2003 - 2010
Launched one of Microsoft’s first SaaS offerings - Office Live Meeting - and broadened expertise in Unified Communications, CRM/ERP & emerging markets businesses.
Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.