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 Predictive Analytics

Atomic FI

Venture Round in 2025
Atomic FI is a technology company that builds digital financial products designed to improve consumer engagement in financial services. It aims to launch a series of products, starting with a balance transfer solution for credit cards, home equity lines of credit, and potentially auto loans, all focused on delivering a streamlined user experience and solving friction for financial institutions and fintechs. Its platform enables users to connect their payroll accounts using payroll credentials, reducing fraud and manual processes through multi-step verification, allowing employees and businesses to conduct secure banking transactions efficiently. The system accelerates payoff times by four to five times and emphasizes a user-centered design that prioritizes speed and ease of use.

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.

Concentric AI

Series B in 2024
Concentric AI provides a data sensitivity and risk discovery platform that analyzes an organization’s documents in cloud and on premises to identify sensitive or business-critical information, assess the risk each item poses, and highlight urgent security concerns. Using deep learning, the system examines document content and context to enable discovery, monitoring, and protection of unstructured data such as confidential files and financial statements. The platform aims to help enterprises secure valuable information, simplify deployment, and reduce time to value by delivering clear, actionable insights across the full inventory of documents. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Stream Security

Series B in 2024
Lightlytics specializes in cloud deployment technologies that assist SRE and DevOps teams in managing infrastructure updates and developments. The company provides a continuously updated model of cloud environments by tracking behavior and configuration changes. Its technology enables teams to automatically predict, pre-empt, and prevent potential failures, downtime, and business disruptions by simulating all possible dependencies and assessing their impact on operations prior to deployment. This capability allows organizations to code and deploy configurations efficiently and securely, ensuring smooth operations from code to cloud.

Galileo

Series B in 2024
Galileo.ai is a technology company specializing in AI application management. It offers a suite of services including development, testing, monitoring, and security for AI applications. The core product is an AI platform designed to enhance machine learning processes by automatically identifying errors and data gaps, thereby improving efficiencies, reducing costs, and mitigating biases across various industries such as healthcare, finance, and insurance.

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.

Exponential Markets

Seed Round in 2024
Exponential Markets develops innovative tradable financial instruments for risk management across various asset classes. Its flagship product is the Exponential Used Vehicle Index, enabling hedging of used vehicle price risk for automotive sector participants.

Exponential Markets

Seed Round in 2023
Exponential Markets develops innovative tradable financial instruments for risk management across various asset classes. Its flagship product is the Exponential Used Vehicle Index, enabling hedging of used vehicle price risk for automotive sector participants.

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.

Moving Analytics

Series A in 2022
Moving Analytics is a telehealth service provider that specializes in cardiovascular prevention programs. Its first product Movn is an end-to-end, integrated program to deliver remote and virtual cardiac rehab. The platform reduces readmissions and empowers the effective and efficient delivery of quality care to patients based on 30+ years of research in remote disease management from Stanford University.

UrbanFootprint

Series B in 2022
UrbanFootprint is an innovative urban intelligence platform that provides a comprehensive data system focused on urban, climate, and community resilience. By unifying previously siloed climate, environmental, urban, and socio-economic data, UrbanFootprint equips governments, utilities, financial institutions, and urban planners with critical insights needed for effective decision-making. The platform offers parcel-level location insights along with a suite of spatial and policy analytics, enabling organizations to address essential resource questions regarding investment, resource deployment, and risk management. Through its web-based geospatial software, UrbanFootprint aims to streamline the urban planning process, helping stakeholders optimize for resilience and community well-being.

Concentric AI

Series A in 2022
Concentric AI provides a data sensitivity and risk discovery platform that analyzes an organization’s documents in cloud and on premises to identify sensitive or business-critical information, assess the risk each item poses, and highlight urgent security concerns. Using deep learning, the system examines document content and context to enable discovery, monitoring, and protection of unstructured data such as confidential files and financial statements. The platform aims to help enterprises secure valuable information, simplify deployment, and reduce time to value by delivering clear, actionable insights across the full inventory of documents. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

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.

T-REX

Series C in 2022
T-Rex Group, Inc., established in 2012, is a technology company specializing in enterprise Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions. Based in New York, with offices in San Francisco and Tel Aviv, the company develops platforms tailored to the finance, renewables, and technology sectors. Its flagship product, T-REX Analytics, is an advanced SaaS analytics platform designed to analyze and manage solar asset acquisitions and sales, structure renewable energy-backed deals, and portfolio management. The platform enables solar developers and asset managers to stress test production and credit risk parameters, model customized debt tranches, and value securitization transactions. By digitizing and standardizing data, and automating workflows, T-Rex aims to facilitate capital flow into complex assets, fostering innovation in the renewable energy sector.

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.

Socure

Series D in 2021
Socure develops digital identity verification solutions using artificial intelligence and machine learning. Its platform authenticates identities in real-time from various online/offline sources, automating customer identification program (CIP), know your customer (KYC), and anti-money laundering (AML) compliance initiatives.

Socure

Series C in 2020
Socure develops digital identity verification solutions using artificial intelligence and machine learning. Its platform authenticates identities in real-time from various online/offline sources, automating customer identification program (CIP), know your customer (KYC), and anti-money laundering (AML) compliance initiatives.

Cashforce

Series A in 2019
Cashforce BV, established in 2013, is a Belgian company with offices in Antwerp, New York, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and London. It specializes in a smart cash flow management and forecasting platform, enabling users to predict cash inflows and outflows across multiple companies, bank accounts, and currencies. The platform integrates seamlessly with various ERPs and banking systems, providing detailed transaction-level insights and AI-based cash flow scenario simulations. Cashforce serves multinational corporations across diverse industries in over 120 countries, empowering CFOs, finance teams, and treasury departments to enhance cash visibility, optimize working capital, and make data-driven decisions.

Kenna Security

Series D in 2019
Kenna Security, founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco with an additional office in Chicago, is a technology company specializing in vulnerability management and risk intelligence solutions. It offers Kenna, a SaaS platform that helps organizations accurately measure and prioritize cyber risks, enabling cross-functional teams to remediate vulnerabilities effectively. Serving various sectors including finance, healthcare, and energy, Kenna's platform leverages predictive analytics to anticipate real-world exploitations, focusing security efforts on critical areas.

T-REX

Corporate Round in 2019
T-Rex Group, Inc., established in 2012, is a technology company specializing in enterprise Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions. Based in New York, with offices in San Francisco and Tel Aviv, the company develops platforms tailored to the finance, renewables, and technology sectors. Its flagship product, T-REX Analytics, is an advanced SaaS analytics platform designed to analyze and manage solar asset acquisitions and sales, structure renewable energy-backed deals, and portfolio management. The platform enables solar developers and asset managers to stress test production and credit risk parameters, model customized debt tranches, and value securitization transactions. By digitizing and standardizing data, and automating workflows, T-Rex aims to facilitate capital flow into complex assets, fostering innovation in the renewable energy sector.

T-REX

Series C in 2019
T-Rex Group, Inc., established in 2012, is a technology company specializing in enterprise Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions. Based in New York, with offices in San Francisco and Tel Aviv, the company develops platforms tailored to the finance, renewables, and technology sectors. Its flagship product, T-REX Analytics, is an advanced SaaS analytics platform designed to analyze and manage solar asset acquisitions and sales, structure renewable energy-backed deals, and portfolio management. The platform enables solar developers and asset managers to stress test production and credit risk parameters, model customized debt tranches, and value securitization transactions. By digitizing and standardizing data, and automating workflows, T-Rex aims to facilitate capital flow into complex assets, fostering innovation in the renewable energy sector.

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.

Pindrop

Series D in 2018
Pindrop specializes in voice-driven security and intelligence solutions for enterprises. It leverages unique audio analysis technology to authenticate calls, detect fraud, and enhance customer experiences across various industries.

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.

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.

Pindrop

Series C in 2016
Pindrop specializes in voice-driven security and intelligence solutions for enterprises. It leverages unique audio analysis technology to authenticate calls, detect fraud, and enhance customer experiences across various industries.

Cylance

Series D in 2016
Cylance is a cybersecurity company that develops artificial intelligence-based prevention-first security solutions designed to predict and prevent malware and other threats. Its platform uses AI and machine learning to distinguish safe from unsafe code, providing proactive protection across endpoints and networks, including antivirus-like functions, memory protection, and device policy enforcement, as well as threat hunting and automated detection and response. The company offers services such as incident response, containment, consulting, and education for industries including critical infrastructure, energy, finance, government, healthcare, and education. Founded in 2012 and based in Irvine, California, Cylance was acquired by BlackBerry and operates as a subsidiary, continuing to focus on predictive and preventive cybersecurity solutions.

Optimizely

Series C in 2015
Optimizely operates a website optimization platform that enables organizations worldwide to conduct A/B testing, multivariate testing, and personalization. Its platform facilitates data-driven decisions through experiments, available in multiple languages. Serving diverse industries like agencies, e-commerce, enterprises, and small businesses, Optimizely was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco with offices globally.

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.

Pindrop

Series B in 2015
Pindrop specializes in voice-driven security and intelligence solutions for enterprises. It leverages unique audio analysis technology to authenticate calls, detect fraud, and enhance customer experiences across various industries.

DB CyberTech

Series B in 2014
DB CyberTech is a cybersecurity company specializing in predictive data loss prevention technologies designed to safeguard business data. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Diego, California, the company leverages advanced techniques such as deep protocol extraction, machine learning, and behavioral analysis to assess database infrastructures. Its innovative products enable non-intrusive monitoring and analysis of database activity, allowing organizations to accurately identify insider threats and database attacks. DB CyberTech serves a diverse clientele, including major financial institutions, healthcare providers, manufacturers, and government entities. The company's solutions provide detailed insights into application and database interactions, enhancing situational awareness and helping clients protect sensitive information from potential breaches.

Pindrop

Series A in 2013
Pindrop specializes in voice-driven security and intelligence solutions for enterprises. It leverages unique audio analysis technology to authenticate calls, detect fraud, and enhance customer experiences across various industries.

Silver Tail Systems

Venture Round in 2011
Silver Tail Systems specializes in predictive analytics designed to detect and prevent fraud and abuse on websites. As business logic abuse becomes increasingly prevalent and difficult to identify, companies face significant financial losses due to various online threats, including hijack attacks and gaming schemes. Silver Tail Systems offers advanced Forensics and Mitigation products that leverage web session intelligence and real-time behavioral analytics to identify suspicious activities. Their innovative approach enables efficient investigation and immediate response to fraudulent events, ensuring that legitimate users remain unaffected while effectively diverting malicious actors.

Bundle

Series A in 2009
Bundle rates merchants based on actual credit card spending by millions of people at that location. Bundle has built a data and analytical solution that structures and sorts through billions of spending transactions in order to rate the merchants.
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