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 Big Data

Clara

Venture Round in 2025
Clara is a Latin American fintech company specializing in corporate spending management. It offers locally-issued corporate cards, bill pay services, financing solutions, and a software platform designed to streamline expense reporting and provide real-time insights into spending.

Endor Labs

Series B in 2025
Endor Labs specializes in enhancing application security with a focus on managing open-source software dependencies. The company aids developers in integrating safe Open Source Software (OSS) to expedite development processes while minimizing time spent on security issues. Its Dependency Lifecycle Management Platform targets the vulnerabilities in software supply chain security caused by ungoverned use of open-source software within enterprises.

Nammu21

Venture Round in 2025
Nammu21, Inc. is a New York-based company founded in 2017 that specializes in developing a digitization and analytics platform. This platform is designed to deconstruct, digitize, and analyze complex interconnected transaction documents within the finance ecosystem. By facilitating access to and extraction of data, Nammu21 enables stakeholders to generate new value from previously inaccessible information. The company's tools aim to bridge the gap between traditional business practices and the evolving digital landscape, enhancing the transaction experience and process for clients by transforming intricate data structures into easily accessible formats.

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.

Writer

Series C in 2024
Writer is a full-stack generative AI platform that enables organizations to build, deploy, and manage AI-powered writing and content across departments such as operations, products, sales, human resources, and marketing. The platform combines an integrated suite of large language models, graph-based retrieval-augmented generation, AI guardrails, and development tools to create customizable applications for content generation, digital assistants, and data analysis, while ensuring secure and compliant operations and rapid deployment to improve productivity and drive innovation and return on investment.

Endor Labs

Venture Round in 2024
Endor Labs specializes in enhancing application security with a focus on managing open-source software dependencies. The company aids developers in integrating safe Open Source Software (OSS) to expedite development processes while minimizing time spent on security issues. Its Dependency Lifecycle Management Platform targets the vulnerabilities in software supply chain security caused by ungoverned use of open-source software within enterprises.

Thinkive

Venture Round in 2024
Thinkive is a financial technology company that specializes in providing online and networked solutions for the financial sector, particularly in China. The company offers a comprehensive platform that delivers data analysis and decision support services tailored for securities, banks, funds, and trusts. With a strong emphasis on technology and innovation, Thinkive has developed over 200 financial solutions, serving more than 80% of brokers and over 20 banks in the industry. By enabling financial institutions to make informed and profitable decisions, Thinkive positions itself as a key player in the evolving landscape of financial services.

Reliance Jio

Debt Financing in 2023
Reliance Jio Infocomm is a telecommunications company based in Mumbai, India, that offers a range of wireless telecom products and services, including voice, data, and messaging. The company utilizes Long-Term Evolution (LTE) technology to provide mobile and broadband services. In addition to its core offerings, Jio distributes smartphones and hotspot devices, enhancing connectivity options for consumers. Jio also invests in research and development across various fields such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), data analytics, and next-generation cloud services. Its media services encompass a wide array of content, including recorded and live music, sports, television programs, movies, and events, catering to diverse entertainment needs.

Clara

Series B in 2023
Clara is a Latin American fintech company specializing in corporate spending management. It offers locally-issued corporate cards, bill pay services, financing solutions, and a software platform designed to streamline expense reporting and provide real-time insights into spending.

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.

InfluxData

Series E in 2023
InfluxData Inc. specializes in open-source solutions for managing time-series data at scale. The company is best known for InfluxDB, a time-series database that is engineered to handle vast amounts of time-stamped data generated by IoT devices, applications, networks, and other sources. InfluxData's product suite includes InfluxEnterprise, a cluster management solution; InfluxCloud, a fully-managed InfluxDB service; Telegraf, a data collection tool; Chronograf, for data visualization; and Kapacitor, which focuses on data processing, monitoring, and alerting. InfluxData aims to support developers and organizations in efficiently storing and analyzing real-time data, thereby enabling the rapid development of monitoring, analytics, and IoT applications. Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in London, the company was previously known as Errplane Inc. and rebranded in December 2015.

Nammu21

Series A in 2022
Nammu21, Inc. is a New York-based company founded in 2017 that specializes in developing a digitization and analytics platform. This platform is designed to deconstruct, digitize, and analyze complex interconnected transaction documents within the finance ecosystem. By facilitating access to and extraction of data, Nammu21 enables stakeholders to generate new value from previously inaccessible information. The company's tools aim to bridge the gap between traditional business practices and the evolving digital landscape, enhancing the transaction experience and process for clients by transforming intricate data structures into easily accessible formats.

Quassar Capital

Venture Round in 2022
Quassar Capital is a United States-based investment firm founded in 2012 with a broad national presence. It relies on quantitative methods drawn from applied mathematics, statistics, financial markets, and advanced programming to guide investment decisions. The firm emphasizes technology and infrastructure to support research and execution and aims to deliver high-quality returns while adapting to changing market conditions. Quassar Capital is affiliated with Cabrera Capital Markets.

Job&Talent

Debt Financing in 2022
Job&Talent is a global marketplace connecting skilled professionals with reputable companies. Leveraging advanced technology, it facilitates reliable and flexible job placements, benefiting both employees seeking opportunities and businesses requiring agile workforces.

Fidel API

Series B in 2022
Fidel API is a financial infrastructure platform that allows developers to create programmable experiences during transaction events on payment cards. Established in 2018 and headquartered in London, with additional offices in Lisbon and New York, Fidel API provides tools that enhance interactions between merchants and consumers by facilitating real-time, event-driven engagements. The platform is designed to integrate seamlessly with major payment networks, such as Visa and Mastercard, to deliver detailed transaction data, including amount, location, date, and merchant. This capability supports improved marketing strategies and customer engagement through tailored loyalty and rewards programs, as well as streamlined processes for reimbursements and expense management. The company serves a diverse clientele, ranging from startups to large enterprises, and has established partnerships with prominent firms across various sectors.

Hopper

Secondary Market in 2022
Founded in 2007, Hopper is a Montreal-based company that develops a mobile application using big data to predict and analyze airfares and accommodations. It provides travel recommendations and notifies users when prices are at their predicted lowest points.

MOSTLY AI

Series B in 2022
Mostly AI Solutions MP GmbH, founded in 2017 and based in Vienna, Austria, specializes in privacy-preserving generative AI solutions tailored for big data applications. The company develops advanced GPU-powered technology that simulates highly realistic and completely anonymous synthetic customer data, allowing organizations to explore, experiment, and innovate without compromising individual privacy. By generating synthetic populations that retain valuable information from actual data while preventing re-identification, Mostly AI enables businesses to unlock new opportunities for data-driven products and services. This innovative approach not only facilitates faster innovation and reduces risks but also lowers costs associated with data management. In addition to its technological offerings, Mostly AI provides machine learning training courses and programs to further enhance data literacy and capabilities within organizations.

Cribl

Series C in 2021
Cribl develops software to manage and control data ingestion, enabling transformation and routing of logs and metrics in motion to the most cost-effective destinations while reusing existing agents. Its platform supports an observability pipeline capable of handling large-scale data with centralized management for many worker nodes. Cribl provides a single platform for accessing, processing, exploring, and collecting data from diverse sources, reducing waste by identifying low-value ingestion and applying business context to data. The software helps secure data in line with privacy and compliance mandates and gives enterprises observability, intelligence, and control over real-time data.

Quassar Capital

Venture Round in 2021
Quassar Capital is a United States-based investment firm founded in 2012 with a broad national presence. It relies on quantitative methods drawn from applied mathematics, statistics, financial markets, and advanced programming to guide investment decisions. The firm emphasizes technology and infrastructure to support research and execution and aims to deliver high-quality returns while adapting to changing market conditions. Quassar Capital is affiliated with Cabrera Capital Markets.

Trulioo

Series D in 2021
Trulioo operates a digital identity network that enables instant online identity, document, and business verification services. The company provides electronic identity verification platforms designed for businesses to assess risks associated with digital identities, combining traditional methods for identity confirmation with modern data from social and online sources. This approach supports companies in verifying customers and entities across borders, helping them comply with anti-money laundering and know-your-customer requirements.

Didi

Debt Financing in 2021
Didi Chuxing, founded in 2012 in Beijing, is a leading mobile transportation platform providing app-based services such as taxi hailing, private car-hailing, social ride-sharing, car rental, and enterprise solutions. With over 450 million users and daily orders reaching 25 million, Didi offers a variety of mobility options to optimize resource allocation through big data-driven algorithms. The company aims to address transportation, environmental, and employment challenges by collaborating with communities and partners. Acquiring Uber China in 2016, Didi has over 21 million drivers and car owners on its platform, generating income while offering convenient transportation solutions to users worldwide.

Hopper

Series F in 2021
Founded in 2007, Hopper is a Montreal-based company that develops a mobile application using big data to predict and analyze airfares and accommodations. It provides travel recommendations and notifies users when prices are at their predicted lowest points.

Solidatus

Series A in 2021
Solidatus is a leading provider of data lineage and conceptual modeling solutions, focused on helping organizations manage their metadata, data, and processes effectively. The company offers software that enables businesses to visualize data flows within their systems, facilitating regulatory compliance, improving governance, and optimizing data landscapes. Solidatus builds interconnected digital maps of organizations, which simplifies complexity and enhances operational efficiency. Its unique approach validates the integrity of AI-generated data and supports transformational change initiatives, making it an essential tool for data-rich and regulated sectors such as finance, pharmaceuticals, and utilities. With a growing global presence, Solidatus operates from its headquarters in London and an office in Singapore, with plans for expansion into the US, Europe, and the Middle East.

Solidatus

Corporate Round in 2020
Solidatus is a leading provider of data lineage and conceptual modeling solutions, focused on helping organizations manage their metadata, data, and processes effectively. The company offers software that enables businesses to visualize data flows within their systems, facilitating regulatory compliance, improving governance, and optimizing data landscapes. Solidatus builds interconnected digital maps of organizations, which simplifies complexity and enhances operational efficiency. Its unique approach validates the integrity of AI-generated data and supports transformational change initiatives, making it an essential tool for data-rich and regulated sectors such as finance, pharmaceuticals, and utilities. With a growing global presence, Solidatus operates from its headquarters in London and an office in Singapore, with plans for expansion into the US, Europe, and the Middle East.

Quassar Capital

Venture Round in 2020
Quassar Capital is a United States-based investment firm founded in 2012 with a broad national presence. It relies on quantitative methods drawn from applied mathematics, statistics, financial markets, and advanced programming to guide investment decisions. The firm emphasizes technology and infrastructure to support research and execution and aims to deliver high-quality returns while adapting to changing market conditions. Quassar Capital is affiliated with Cabrera Capital Markets.

Reonomy

Series D in 2019
Reonomy specializes in commercial real estate data and analytics. It uses big data, partnerships, and machine learning to provide comprehensive property intelligence, enabling professionals to discover new opportunities and make informed decisions.

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.

Fidel API

Series A in 2019
Fidel API is a financial infrastructure platform that allows developers to create programmable experiences during transaction events on payment cards. Established in 2018 and headquartered in London, with additional offices in Lisbon and New York, Fidel API provides tools that enhance interactions between merchants and consumers by facilitating real-time, event-driven engagements. The platform is designed to integrate seamlessly with major payment networks, such as Visa and Mastercard, to deliver detailed transaction data, including amount, location, date, and merchant. This capability supports improved marketing strategies and customer engagement through tailored loyalty and rewards programs, as well as streamlined processes for reimbursements and expense management. The company serves a diverse clientele, ranging from startups to large enterprises, and has established partnerships with prominent firms across various sectors.

Trulioo

Series C in 2019
Trulioo operates a digital identity network that enables instant online identity, document, and business verification services. The company provides electronic identity verification platforms designed for businesses to assess risks associated with digital identities, combining traditional methods for identity confirmation with modern data from social and online sources. This approach supports companies in verifying customers and entities across borders, helping them comply with anti-money laundering and know-your-customer requirements.

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.

Hopper

Series D in 2018
Founded in 2007, Hopper is a Montreal-based company that develops a mobile application using big data to predict and analyze airfares and accommodations. It provides travel recommendations and notifies users when prices are at their predicted lowest points.

Reliance Jio

Debt Financing in 2018
Reliance Jio Infocomm is a telecommunications company based in Mumbai, India, that offers a range of wireless telecom products and services, including voice, data, and messaging. The company utilizes Long-Term Evolution (LTE) technology to provide mobile and broadband services. In addition to its core offerings, Jio distributes smartphones and hotspot devices, enhancing connectivity options for consumers. Jio also invests in research and development across various fields such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), data analytics, and next-generation cloud services. Its media services encompass a wide array of content, including recorded and live music, sports, television programs, movies, and events, catering to diverse entertainment needs.

Anaconda

Convertible Note in 2018
Anaconda is a company that develops a Python data science platform to help organizations adopt open data science analytics. It offers Anaconda Distribution for packaging Python data science libraries and Anaconda Enterprise as an enterprise-grade platform, complemented by training and professional development programs to grow data science skills. The company provides services focused on data management, optimization, data science, and visualization and serves clients across industries including energy, finance, defense, biology, and medicine. Founded in 2011 and based in Austin, Texas, Anaconda has supported open-source Python adoption and enterprise deployments worldwide.

Pagaya

Debt Financing in 2018
Pagaya is a fintech company leveraging machine learning and big data analytics to manage institutional funds, primarily focusing on fixed income and alternative credit markets.

Kinetica

Series A in 2017
Kinetica operates a cloud database platform designed to extract value from spatial and temporal data at scale and speed. Its active analytics platform ingests, processes, analyzes, visualizes, and translates location data into patterns and opportunities, enabling businesses to accelerate analysis and replace expensive data warehouses.

Kensho Technologies

Series B in 2017
Kensho Technologies, Inc. is a provider of advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data visualization systems tailored for global banks and investment institutions. The company develops Kensho Financial Analytics Software, which delivers scalable analytical solutions to enhance decision-making within commercial entities. Kensho's offerings also include the Kensho Applied Mind, a sophisticated AI software that enables natural language processing to address complex financial inquiries in plain English. Additionally, Kensho operates a national security division known as Koto. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Kensho has expanded its presence with offices in New York, McLean, and Pacific Palisades. As of April 2018, Kensho Technologies operates as a subsidiary of S&P Global Inc.

Tealium

Series E in 2017
Founded in 2008, Tealium provides enterprise-level solutions for managing and integrating customer data across various digital touchpoints. Its platform offers tag management, a customer data hub, machine learning-driven insights, and real-time audience discovery tools. Serving over 1,000 businesses worldwide, Tealium helps brands create unified, actionable customer data infrastructure.

Platfora

Series C in 2015
Platfora is a developer of data-management software that focuses on helping businesses process and interpret large volumes of data. Its Big Data Analytics Platform simplifies the complexities associated with Hadoop, allowing customers to gain insights into their business by visualizing events, actions, and behaviors over time. The platform aims to empower organizations to transition into fact-based enterprises by making data more accessible and comprehensible, thereby facilitating informed decision-making and strategic planning.

Pepperdata

Series B in 2015
Pepperdata is a software company that provides visibility and control over big data and cloud workloads. Its platform monitors real-time resource usage (CPU, memory, network, local disk, and HDFS) by user, job, and process on clusters, enabling operators to run more jobs on existing infrastructure and optimize performance of Hadoop, Kubernetes, and other environments. It offers a performance analytics suite called Query Spotlight and dynamic optimization technology to achieve continuous, autonomous cost and capacity optimization in on-premises and cloud deployments, notably on Amazon EMR and Amazon EKS, without requiring application changes. Pepperdata emphasizes observability and troubleshooting to help enterprises manage large-scale data clusters, with customers including Citibank, T-Mobile, Autodesk, Securonix, and RBC. The company also provides guidance for cloud migrations, including cost assessments and automatic instance-type selection. Founded in 2012 and based in Sunnyvale, Pepperdata serves some of the world’s most complex data environments.

Platfora

Series C in 2014
Platfora is a developer of data-management software that focuses on helping businesses process and interpret large volumes of data. Its Big Data Analytics Platform simplifies the complexities associated with Hadoop, allowing customers to gain insights into their business by visualizing events, actions, and behaviors over time. The platform aims to empower organizations to transition into fact-based enterprises by making data more accessible and comprehensible, thereby facilitating informed decision-making and strategic planning.

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.
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