Citi Ventures

Headquartered in San Francisco with offices globally, Citi Ventures explores, incubates, and invests in innovative ideas across fintech, data analytics, commerce, security, marketing, property tech, distributed ledger technology, and digital assets. It collaborates with Citi colleagues, clients, and the broader innovation community to drive discovery of new value.

Omar Amireh

Cheif Executive Officer / Citi Country Officer

Avi Arnon

Vice President

Krishna Balachanader

Managing Director

Thompson Barro

Vice President

Karine Ben-Simhon

VP Intelligence Partnerships and Innovation

Matt Carbonara

Managing Director

Alex Chen

Vice President

Kateryna Chupryna

Director

Xiaolei Cong

Vice President

Lauren Gross

Investment Banking Analyst

Ignacio Gutiérrez-Orrantia

CEO, Citibank Europe

Lizzie Guynn

Vice President

Charles Howe

Investor

Cagla Kaymaz

Senior Vice President

Lucas Kirshenbaum

Assistant Vice President

Ian Lee

Director, Innovation Network

Everett Leonidas

Director

Robert Li

Vice President, Citi Ventures

Paul Marshall

Director, Global Finance Product Transformation

Jeff Meyers

Investor

Blaze O'Byrne

Vice President

Margo Pilic

Chief of Staff to the CEO

Arvind Purushotham

Managing Director

Vibhor Rastogi

Managing Director

Meredith Shields

Managing Director

Ornit Shinar

Managing Director

Cece Stewart

President

Kate Sullivan

COO

Avery Tiras

Equity Research Senior Associate

Luis Valdich

Managing Director

Jelena Zec

Director

Past deals in San Francisco Bay Area

Quantifind

Venture Round in 2025
Quantifind is a data science company that develops AI-powered platforms for marketing insight and financial crime risk management. Its Signum suite merges internal data with public information to reveal revenue drivers, explain what and who influences brand performance, and measure sponsorship impact on awareness and sales across automotive, consumer goods, entertainment, financial services, pharmaceutical, retail, and telecom sectors. The company also provides financial crime intelligence solutions for anti-money laundering and fraud detection, delivering real-time risk assessments, uncovering hidden threats, and reducing false positives by leveraging unstructured external data alongside internal records. Quantifind serves financial institutions and other organizations seeking faster, more precise risk detection, improved compliance, and scalable, data-driven decision support.

Databricks

Debt Financing in 2025
Databricks offers a unified data analytics platform that simplifies data integration, enables real-time experimentation, and facilitates robust deployment of production applications for developers and data scientists. Serving diverse industries worldwide, Databricks' platform supports collaborative data science, machine learning workflows, and integrates with various cloud services.

Zeta Global Holdings

Post in 2024
Zeta Global Holdings is a data and analytics company that offers a comprehensive cloud-based marketing platform designed to help brands acquire, grow, and retain customers. Established in 2007 by David A. Steinberg and John Sculley, Zeta employs advanced analytics, machine learning, and extensive consumer intelligence to support enterprises across various industries, including financial services, telecommunications, and retail. Its flagship product, the Zeta Marketing Platform (ZMP), leverages identity data to analyze vast amounts of structured and unstructured data, enabling businesses to predict consumer intent and optimize marketing efforts. Headquartered in New York City, Zeta has over 1,000 employees and maintains Centers of Excellence in key locations such as Silicon Valley, Boston, London, and Hyderabad, alongside numerous other global offices. The company competes with major players in the marketing technology space, including Oracle, IBM, Salesforce, and Adobe.

Traceable

Venture Round in 2024
Traceable Inc. is a security solutions provider focused on protecting cloud-native applications, particularly through comprehensive API security. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, the company offers an end-to-end application security monitoring platform that safeguards application activity from users to APIs and code. Its innovative approach includes an API Data Lake at the core of its platform, enabling intelligent and context-aware security management. Traceable’s solutions encompass threat protection, security posture management, and insights for forensic analysis, all designed to minimize risks and enhance the value of APIs within organizations' software development lifecycles. By leveraging machine learning technology, Traceable analyzes user interactions and application behavior to detect anomalies and assess attack attempts, thereby enabling businesses to strengthen their security operations effectively.

Quantifind

Venture Round in 2023
Quantifind is a data science company that develops AI-powered platforms for marketing insight and financial crime risk management. Its Signum suite merges internal data with public information to reveal revenue drivers, explain what and who influences brand performance, and measure sponsorship impact on awareness and sales across automotive, consumer goods, entertainment, financial services, pharmaceutical, retail, and telecom sectors. The company also provides financial crime intelligence solutions for anti-money laundering and fraud detection, delivering real-time risk assessments, uncovering hidden threats, and reducing false positives by leveraging unstructured external data alongside internal records. Quantifind serves financial institutions and other organizations seeking faster, more precise risk detection, improved compliance, and scalable, data-driven decision support.

HoneyBook

Series E in 2021
HoneyBook, Inc. is a business software company based in San Francisco, California, established in 2012. It offers a clientflow management platform designed for independent business owners, particularly in the event planning sector, including wedding planners and related vendors. The HoneyBook platform simplifies the management of client interactions by integrating tools for communication, contracts, invoicing, and payments, allowing users to streamline their business processes. With over 100,000 service-based businesses in the United States and Canada utilizing the platform, HoneyBook has facilitated more than $9 billion in transactions. The company also has a presence in Tel Aviv and employs remote staff worldwide, emphasizing its commitment to enhancing the client experience and operational efficiency for entrepreneurs and freelancers.

Tessian

Series C in 2021
Tessian Limited is a company that specializes in email security software designed to mitigate risks associated with human error and data loss. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in London, the company offers advanced solutions that leverage machine learning and artificial intelligence. Key products include CheckRecipient Guardian, which alerts users in real-time if emails are being sent to unintended recipients, and CheckRecipient RuleBuilder, which allows organizations to easily create and enforce email communication policies. The platform analyzes email networks to prevent sensitive information from being misdirected, thereby protecting clients in various sectors, including legal services, healthcare, investment banking, and technology. Tessian aims to enhance security while ensuring minimal disruption to employees' workflows, empowering them to work efficiently without compromising data integrity.

HoneyBook

Series D in 2021
HoneyBook, Inc. is a business software company based in San Francisco, California, established in 2012. It offers a clientflow management platform designed for independent business owners, particularly in the event planning sector, including wedding planners and related vendors. The HoneyBook platform simplifies the management of client interactions by integrating tools for communication, contracts, invoicing, and payments, allowing users to streamline their business processes. With over 100,000 service-based businesses in the United States and Canada utilizing the platform, HoneyBook has facilitated more than $9 billion in transactions. The company also has a presence in Tel Aviv and employs remote staff worldwide, emphasizing its commitment to enhancing the client experience and operational efficiency for entrepreneurs and freelancers.

Harness

Series C in 2021
Harness is a software company that provides a continuous delivery-as-a-service platform designed to automate and streamline the end‑to‑end software development lifecycle. Leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning, the platform offers AI‑driven pipeline automation, real‑time delivery analytics, automated verification, intelligent testing, security orchestration, and cloud cost management. It supports modern cloud environments, containers, and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes and Amazon ECS, enabling engineering and DevOps teams to accelerate deployment cycles, reduce manual effort, and improve software reliability. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company focuses on simplifying the process of moving code from artifact to production.

Datameer

Venture Round in 2019
Datameer is a data analytics platform that enables data engineers and analysts to transform and model data directly within cloud data warehouses using SQL or a no-code interface. The platform supports data preparation, integration, and analytics for large datasets, including features for ML and reporting, and aims to accelerate dataset creation and delivery while enabling collaboration between citizen data users and engineers. It offers tools for data modeling, transformation, and smart execution to optimize workloads, and provides capabilities for data discovery, visualization, and analytics across industries such as financial services, healthcare, retail, telecommunications, and tech. Founded in 2009 and based in San Francisco, Datameer targets organizations seeking scalable, accessible analytics in hybrid and cloud environments.

HoneyBook

Series C in 2019
HoneyBook, Inc. is a business software company based in San Francisco, California, established in 2012. It offers a clientflow management platform designed for independent business owners, particularly in the event planning sector, including wedding planners and related vendors. The HoneyBook platform simplifies the management of client interactions by integrating tools for communication, contracts, invoicing, and payments, allowing users to streamline their business processes. With over 100,000 service-based businesses in the United States and Canada utilizing the platform, HoneyBook has facilitated more than $9 billion in transactions. The company also has a presence in Tel Aviv and employs remote staff worldwide, emphasizing its commitment to enhancing the client experience and operational efficiency for entrepreneurs and freelancers.

Zum

Series C in 2019
Zum Services, Inc., established in 2014, specializes in safe and reliable transportation services for children and youth in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego. The company offers scheduled or on-demand rides, as well as care services like nannies, for school drops and pickups, sports activities, and other needs. Zum's services include single family or carpool rides, one-off rides, babysitting, and stay and watch services, all facilitated through a network of vetted drivers and advanced scheduling technology.

Bloomberg Second Measure

Series A in 2019
Bloomberg Second Measure is a technology company that specializes in analyzing vast amounts of anonymized purchase data to provide insights into consumer behavior and business performance. Serving some of the world's leading brands and investment firms, the company offers real-time analysis that helps organizations identify growth trends, benchmark competitors, and better understand their customer base. With offices in the Bay Area and New York, Bloomberg Second Measure combines advanced analytics with comprehensive purchase data to empower businesses to make informed decisions based on actionable insights.

Privitar

Corporate Round in 2018
Privitar Ltd. is an enterprise software company specializing in privacy-preserving data mining and advanced data anonymization solutions. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in London, the company serves a diverse global client base across North America, Europe, and Asia. Privitar's product suite includes Privitar Publisher, which allows organizations to securely manage and audit data access, and Privitar Lens, which facilitates the creation of privacy-preserving APIs for reporting and analytics. Additionally, its SecureLink system focuses on data de-identification, while the Privitar Data Privacy Platform enhances data utilization while safeguarding sensitive information. The company's technologies enable clients to analyze potentially sensitive data in compliance with regulations such as GDPR, CPRA, and HIPAA, thereby fostering data-driven innovation and maintaining customer privacy across various sectors, including finance, healthcare, telecommunications, and marketing.

Braze

Series D in 2017
Braze is a customer engagement platform that helps brands deliver relevant, human experiences across channels. It offers a mobile marketing automation and customer relationship management solution with AI-powered tools for engagement orchestration, including messaging, chatbots, and content management, plus campaign optimization insights, data analysis, and segment analytics. The platform enables cross-channel personalization across mobile, email, web, television, and connected devices, and provides data security, data warehousing and streaming capabilities. Braze uses AI to power functionality across its stack. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, it has offices in London, San Francisco, Chicago, and Singapore. Braze serves industries such as retail and e-commerce, media and entertainment, financial services, and travel and hospitality, focusing on timely, contextually relevant interactions between consumers and brands.

Airbnb

Debt Financing in 2016
Airbnb operates a global platform connecting hosts with guests seeking short-term accommodations and experiences. It offers private rooms, luxury villas, homes, and unique stays worldwide.

Braze

Series C in 2016
Braze is a customer engagement platform that helps brands deliver relevant, human experiences across channels. It offers a mobile marketing automation and customer relationship management solution with AI-powered tools for engagement orchestration, including messaging, chatbots, and content management, plus campaign optimization insights, data analysis, and segment analytics. The platform enables cross-channel personalization across mobile, email, web, television, and connected devices, and provides data security, data warehousing and streaming capabilities. Braze uses AI to power functionality across its stack. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, it has offices in London, San Francisco, Chicago, and Singapore. Braze serves industries such as retail and e-commerce, media and entertainment, financial services, and travel and hospitality, focusing on timely, contextually relevant interactions between consumers and brands.

Persado

Series C in 2016
Persado Inc., established in 2011, specializes in AI-generated marketing language solutions. Headquartered in New York, with offices in San Francisco, Chicago, Europe, and the UK, Persado serves major brands across retail, finance, travel, telecom, and healthcare. Its AI platforms, including Pro Email, Pro Social, and Persado Enterprise, create emotionally resonant language for emails, social ads, and personalized consumer interactions, driving short-term sales and long-term relationships. Persado's solutions have generated over $1.5 billion in incremental revenue for clients like Ally Bank, JPMorgan Chase, and Verizon, demonstrating an average 41% lift in conversion rates.

Persado

Series B in 2015
Persado Inc., established in 2011, specializes in AI-generated marketing language solutions. Headquartered in New York, with offices in San Francisco, Chicago, Europe, and the UK, Persado serves major brands across retail, finance, travel, telecom, and healthcare. Its AI platforms, including Pro Email, Pro Social, and Persado Enterprise, create emotionally resonant language for emails, social ads, and personalized consumer interactions, driving short-term sales and long-term relationships. Persado's solutions have generated over $1.5 billion in incremental revenue for clients like Ally Bank, JPMorgan Chase, and Verizon, demonstrating an average 41% lift in conversion rates.

DocuSign

Series E in 2014
DocuSign provides cloud-based software that enables organizations to prepare, execute, and manage agreements electronically. Its platform delivers e-signature functionality and an end-to-end Agreement Cloud that automates the entire contract process, from generation and routing to signing, storage, and analytics. Additional capabilities include AI-powered insights for contract search, Salesforce integrations for generating and negotiating documents, and tools for guided forms, identity verification, and digital signatures with certificates, as well as payments. Industry-specific offerings include Rooms for Real Estate and Rooms for Mortgage, and a FedRAMP-authorized eSignature for U.S. federal agencies, supporting compliance for regulated industries. The company serves enterprise, commercial, and small-business customers across sectors such as professional services, finance, technology, life sciences, real estate, and government, with global reach. Founded in 2003, the company is headquartered in San Francisco.

Datameer

Series D in 2013
Datameer is a data analytics platform that enables data engineers and analysts to transform and model data directly within cloud data warehouses using SQL or a no-code interface. The platform supports data preparation, integration, and analytics for large datasets, including features for ML and reporting, and aims to accelerate dataset creation and delivery while enabling collaboration between citizen data users and engineers. It offers tools for data modeling, transformation, and smart execution to optimize workloads, and provides capabilities for data discovery, visualization, and analytics across industries such as financial services, healthcare, retail, telecommunications, and tech. Founded in 2009 and based in San Francisco, Datameer targets organizations seeking scalable, accessible analytics in hybrid and cloud environments.

ReadyForZero

Series A in 2011
ReadyForZero is a financial software company based in San Francisco, co-founded by Rod Ebrahimi and Ignacio Thayer in 2010 as part of Y Combinator. The company specializes in online tools that assist individuals in managing their debt and safeguarding their credit. Unlike debt negotiation or settlement services, ReadyForZero focuses on providing users with a platform to track their debts, make payments, and monitor their credit status. By automating these processes, the software aims to empower users to take control of their financial situations effectively.
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