Citizen.VC

Investor - Venture Capital

Overview

Citizen.VC invests in startup companies with outstanding management teams and a fertile marketplace within the United States.

Country: United States

Founded: 2013

Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA

Investment Strategy

Geography

  • North America

Sector Focus

  • Marketplace Lending
  • Payments and Remittances

Investment Stage

  • Seed
  • Series A

Summary

Citizen.VC invests in startup companies with outstanding management teams and a fertile marketplace in the US.  Their goal is to incent the partners to focus on carry and not on current cash compensation to deploy their investments for growth. Citizen.VC discretely provides accredited investors direct access to private offerings from promising Silicon Valley startups.  They use big data models to determine which companies will succeed and a match making algorithm to identify what kind of investor a specific company would work best with.

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Investments

Date

Name

Size

Round

Co-Investors

Sector

Country

November 2016

MoneyLion

$22.5m

Series A

  Edison Partners

Marketplace Lending

United States

April 2014

MoneyLion

$1.5m

Seed

FinTech Collective

Marketplace Lending

United States

January 2014

Collective Health

$6m

Series A

  Founders Fund

InsureTech

United States

January 2014

Regalii

$2m

Seed

  Alexis Ohanian

Payments and Remittances

United States

September 2013

MoneyLion

undisclosed

Seed

  FinTech Collective

Marketplace Lending

United States

December 2012

Gyft

undisclosed

Seed

Payments and Remittances

United States

Funds Raised

Vintage

Fund Name

Amount

2014

Citizen.VC

$4m

Key Employees

Zain Khan
Co-Founder & CEO

Emilio DiSanluciano
Co-Founder and President