Citi Ventures
Investor - Accelerator/Venture
Overview
Citi Ventures, Inc. is the venture capital arm of Citicorp Banking Corporation specializing in incubation and seed investments. It seeks to invest in startups. The firm seeks to invest in financial services industry and transformational technologies, including those that leverage the power of social media and information analytics with a focus on commerce and payments; security and enterprise IT; big data and analytics; and financial technology. Within big data and analytics platform, the firm seeks to invest in companies that address the following needs: distributed Big Data infrastructure management; text analytics on massive unstructured data sets; Natural Language Processing interfaces (NLPs); graph technologies; exploratory analysis and the discovery of hidden insights in complex data structures; security and governance for Big Data and next-generation business intelligence (BI); visualization tools; and marketing technologies.
Country: United States
Founded: 2007
Headquarters: 260 Homer Avenue Suite 101 Palo Alto, CA 94301 United States
Investment Strategy
Geography
- North America
- Asia
- Middle East and Israel
Sector Focus
- Marketplace Lending
- Institutional Investments and Trading
- WealthTech
- RegTech
- Payments and Remittances
- Infrastructure and Enterprise Software
- Data and Analytics
- Blockchain
Investment Stage
- Early Stage Venture
- Series B
- Series C
- Series D
Summary
Citi Ventures, Inc. is the venture capital arm of Citicorp Banking Corporation specializing in incubation and seed investments. It seeks to invest in startups. The firm seeks to invest in financial services industry and transformational technologies, including those that leverage the power of social media and information analytics with a focus on commerce and payments; security and enterprise IT; big data and analytics; and financial technology. Within big data and analytics platform, the firm seeks to invest in companies that address the following needs: distributed Big Data infrastructure management; text analytics on massive unstructured data sets; Natural Language Processing interfaces (NLPs); graph technologies; exploratory analysis and the discovery of hidden insights in complex data structures; security and governance for Big Data and next-generation business intelligence (BI); visualization tools; and marketing technologies.
Investments
Date
Name
Size
Round
Co-Investors
Sector
Country
vArmour
Series D
Arvind Purushotham
Infrastructure & Enterprise Software
United States
illusive networks
Series B
Infrastructure & Enterprise Software
Israel
BlueVine
Venture
Marketplace Lending
United States
Betterment
Series E
Arvind Purushotham
WealthTech
United States
Pindrop
Series A
Arvind Purushotham
RegTech
United States
Platfora
Series C
Data & Analytics
United States
Chain
Series C
Blockchain
United States
M-DAQ
Series B
Wei Hopeman
Institutional Investments & Trading
Singapore
Ayasdi
Series B
Data & Analytics
United States
Click Security
Series B
Infrastructure & Enterprise Software
United States
Square
Series D
Payments & Remittances
United States
Jumio
Series B
RegTech
United States
Plastic Jungle
Undisclosed
Payments & Remittances
United States
Silver Tail Systems
Undisclosed
RegTech
United States
ReadyForZero
Series A
WealthTech
United States
Key Employees
Deborah Chase Hopkins
Chief Executive Officer
Niki Manby
Chief Operating Officer
Vanessa Colella
Managing Director, Global Head of Venture Investing & Strategic Growth Initiatives
Debbie Brackeen
Managing Director & Global Head, Innovation Network
Prakash V
Chief Financial Officer