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 Western Asia

Lightrun

Series B in 2025
Lightrun is a company that specializes in developing an observability platform aimed at enhancing the debugging process for developers. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, Lightrun's platform enables developers to securely and effortlessly add logs, performance metrics, and traces to both production and staging environments in real time. This capability allows research and development teams to improve productivity and gain comprehensive code-level observability. The platform can be deployed across various infrastructures, allowing developers to define data collection parameters while applications are actively running. This continuous debugging functionality helps developers address production issues without the need to stop applications, thereby streamlining the debugging process in any environment.

NEOM

Debt Financing in 2025
NEOM Company, founded in 2019 and based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, is focused on real estate development and aims to create a groundbreaking urban environment. The company seeks to bring together diverse communities and foster growth across various sectors through innovative solutions. By promoting economic development and progressive governance, NEOM aims to establish a foundation for a sustainable and healthy lifestyle, positioning itself as a leader in transformative urban planning.

Independence Realty Trust

Post in 2024
Independence Realty Trust is a real estate investment trust (REIT) that specializes in the acquisition, ownership, operation, improvement, and management of multifamily apartment communities in non-gateway U.S. markets. The company owns and operates properties in cities such as Louisville, Memphis, Atlanta, and Raleigh. It is dedicated to enhancing the living experience for residents while fostering a positive work environment for its employees. Independence Realty Trust focuses on expanding its presence in key amenity-rich submarkets that provide access to quality school districts, retail options, and diverse employment centers.

BlaBlaCar

Debt Financing in 2024
BlaBlaCar is a leading long-distance carpooling community that connects drivers with empty seats to passengers seeking affordable travel options. The platform facilitates shared rides, allowing members to reduce transportation costs and minimize their environmental impact. Users can create detailed profiles and specify their preferred level of conversation during the journey, which fosters a secure and trust-based community. Operating in 22 countries, including various regions in Europe, Russia, Turkey, Mexico, Brazil, and India, BlaBlaCar offers a user-friendly website and mobile applications that streamline the connection between drivers and passengers. Headquartered in Paris, the company has established a global network that emphasizes community trust and shared travel experiences.

Sotherly Hotels

Post in 2024
Sotherly Hotels is a lodging real estate investment trust that specializes in owning, acquiring, renovating, and repositioning full-service, upscale, and upper-upscale hotel properties. The company focuses on high-quality hotels primarily situated in high-growth markets across the Southern United States and the mid-Atlantic region. Sotherly Hotels generates revenue through various services, including room bookings, food, and beverages. Its portfolio spans several states, including Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Virginia, reflecting a strategic commitment to operating in primary markets with robust demand for hospitality services.

Kasa Living

Series C in 2023
Kasa Living is a real estate platform that partners with owners of multifamily and boutique hospitality properties to convert underutilized real estate into professionally managed rentals and hotels. The platform provides online booking for apartments and boutique accommodations, hotel check-in, and property management services aimed at business and leisure travelers. It operates with a network across numerous states in the United States from its base in San Francisco, offering home-like, affordable stays by transforming suitable properties into professionally managed, guest-ready units.

Greenwood

Series B in 2022
Greenwood is a fintech company offering a mobile banking platform designed for Black and Latinx individuals and business owners. It provides savings accounts, debit cards, peer-to-peer transfers, mobile deposits, community reinvestment initiatives, global ATM access, and early pay services.

Access Fintech

Series C in 2022
Access Fintech provides risk management services for financial institutions. It offers a platform that aggregates data from internal systems and external sources, providing users with a unified view of risks associated with financial transactions. The platform enables collaboration across organizations, allowing control functions to adjust priorities based on market conditions and managers to oversee bottlenecks. Access Fintech was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.

FundGuard

Series B in 2022
FundGuard is a software company that develops an AI-powered, cloud-based funds operating system for investment management and administration. Its platform automates exception resolution, detects anomalies, identifies potential fraud, and suggests operational improvements, providing real-time transparency across mutual funds, ETFs, hedge funds, insurance, and pension programs. Delivered as a SaaS solution, the platform helps asset managers and fund administrators reimagine product offerings as digital experiences and monitor key performance indicators. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel.

ChargeAfter

Series B in 2022
ChargeAfter Ltd is a financing platform founded in 2017, headquartered in Ramat Gan, Israel, with additional offices in Sunnyvale, California, and New York, New York. The company specializes in connecting retailers with multiple lenders to provide consumers with personalized, responsible financing options at the point of sale. Its platform utilizes a data-driven decisioning engine to streamline the approval process, enabling merchants to deliver relevant financing offers based on individual credit profiles. ChargeAfter's solution allows retailers to implement financing options quickly across both online and in-store channels, enhancing customer experiences while improving conversion rates and average order value. The platform also features an easy-to-use merchant dashboard, detailed transaction reporting, and options for white-label integration, thereby supporting lenders in expanding their reach within new retail markets.

PadSplit

Series B in 2021
Founded in Atlanta, Georgia in 2017, PadSplit operates a digital platform that facilitates shared housing arrangements. The company transforms single-family homes into multi-unit dwellings, offering affordable accommodation options for the workforce by sharing common spaces and utilities.

TailorMed

Venture Round in 2021
TailorMed Medical Ltd., established in 2017 and based in Tel Aviv, Israel, specializes in health IT solutions. The company develops and provides financial navigation technology and systems, designed to streamline and automate financial processes for both patients and healthcare providers. Their offerings include TailorMed Financial Navigation, a platform to manage and automate financial processes; TailorMed Financial Insights, an analytics and reporting dashboard to track and measure key performance indicators; and TailorMed Pharmacy, a platform to simplify drug ordering, tracking, and billing based on patient treatment regimens.

Access Fintech

Series B in 2020
Access Fintech provides risk management services for financial institutions. It offers a platform that aggregates data from internal systems and external sources, providing users with a unified view of risks associated with financial transactions. The platform enables collaboration across organizations, allowing control functions to adjust priorities based on market conditions and managers to oversee bottlenecks. Access Fintech was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.

PadSplit

Series A in 2020
Founded in Atlanta, Georgia in 2017, PadSplit operates a digital platform that facilitates shared housing arrangements. The company transforms single-family homes into multi-unit dwellings, offering affordable accommodation options for the workforce by sharing common spaces and utilities.

Access Fintech

Series A in 2018
Access Fintech provides risk management services for financial institutions. It offers a platform that aggregates data from internal systems and external sources, providing users with a unified view of risks associated with financial transactions. The platform enables collaboration across organizations, allowing control functions to adjust priorities based on market conditions and managers to oversee bottlenecks. Access Fintech was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.

Contguard

Series A in 2018
Contguard develops a software platform that provides real-time information on shipment location, route deviations, and environmental conditions. It uses IoT, data analytics, and AI for end-to-end cloud-based supply chain management. The company installs monitoring units in maritime containers to track cargo, operates multiplatform client interfaces, and has control centers for data storage and alerts.

Contguard

Venture Round in 2018
Contguard develops a software platform that provides real-time information on shipment location, route deviations, and environmental conditions. It uses IoT, data analytics, and AI for end-to-end cloud-based supply chain management. The company installs monitoring units in maritime containers to track cargo, operates multiplatform client interfaces, and has control centers for data storage and alerts.

Illusive Networks

Series B in 2016
Illusive Networks Ltd. is a cybersecurity company that specializes in deception-based solutions designed to protect enterprise systems from cyber threats. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with an additional office in New York, Illusive aims to reduce cyber risk by shrinking the attack surface and hindering an attacker's lateral movement within the network. Its platform creates a hostile environment for potential intruders by replacing vulnerable connections with deceptive alternatives, enabling the identification of attackers and providing actionable forensic insights. The company's offerings include a range of services such as compliance support, insider threat defense, and cloud security, as well as tools like the Illusive Networks Management Platform and Attack Surface Manager. Illusive serves a diverse clientele across various sectors, including financial services, healthcare, legal, manufacturing, retail, and technology, and is recognized for its advanced detection of persistent threats and targeted attacks.

Illusive Networks

Series B in 2015
Illusive Networks Ltd. is a cybersecurity company that specializes in deception-based solutions designed to protect enterprise systems from cyber threats. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with an additional office in New York, Illusive aims to reduce cyber risk by shrinking the attack surface and hindering an attacker's lateral movement within the network. Its platform creates a hostile environment for potential intruders by replacing vulnerable connections with deceptive alternatives, enabling the identification of attackers and providing actionable forensic insights. The company's offerings include a range of services such as compliance support, insider threat defense, and cloud security, as well as tools like the Illusive Networks Management Platform and Attack Surface Manager. Illusive serves a diverse clientele across various sectors, including financial services, healthcare, legal, manufacturing, retail, and technology, and is recognized for its advanced detection of persistent threats and targeted attacks.

SEW Infrastructure

Private Equity Round in 2007
SEW Infrastructure Limited is a prominent player in the infrastructure sector, specializing in the construction and development of various projects across multiple domains. Founded in 1959 and headquartered in Hyderabad, India, the company has expanded its operations to include additional offices in several international locations. SEW Infrastructure engages in civil engineering activities, focusing on the construction of tunnels, hydropower and thermal power plants, dams, irrigation systems, canals, and aqueducts. Its portfolio also encompasses power transmission, public health engineering, transportation, commercial and industrial buildings, property development, ports, and projects in mining and oil and gas. The firm is known for providing innovative and cost-effective engineering, procurement, and construction services tailored to the needs of its clients.
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