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 Real Time

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.

Proxymity

Venture Round in 2025
Proxymity is a London-based digital platform for investor communications and proxy voting. It provides an end-to-end solution that connects issuers, intermediaries, and investors in real time, enabling efficient, accurate, and transparent proxy voting and shareholder disclosure. The platform automates requests and responses in regulatory-compliant formats and timeframes, supports a digital proxy voting process, and transmits meeting data and votes in real time, reducing manual data entry and eliminating paper-based transfer.

Lakera

Series A in 2024
Lakera is a real-time GenAI security company focused on the safe and responsible development of artificial intelligence technologies. It provides mission-critical software that emphasizes safety and compliance in AI application development. The company's machine learning development kit allows organizations to create Generative AI applications while minimizing security and safety risks. Lakera's solutions empower development teams to identify flaws in computer vision systems, thereby preventing critical failures during operation and enhancing trust in AI products. Additionally, Lakera has developed Gandalf, an educational tool that has informed over one million users about AI security, reflecting its commitment to facilitating the secure adoption of AI technologies and staying ahead of emerging threats.

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.

Proxymity

Series B in 2022
Proxymity is a London-based digital platform for investor communications and proxy voting. It provides an end-to-end solution that connects issuers, intermediaries, and investors in real time, enabling efficient, accurate, and transparent proxy voting and shareholder disclosure. The platform automates requests and responses in regulatory-compliant formats and timeframes, supports a digital proxy voting process, and transmits meeting data and votes in real time, reducing manual data entry and eliminating paper-based transfer.

Proxymity

Series B in 2022
Proxymity is a London-based digital platform for investor communications and proxy voting. It provides an end-to-end solution that connects issuers, intermediaries, and investors in real time, enabling efficient, accurate, and transparent proxy voting and shareholder disclosure. The platform automates requests and responses in regulatory-compliant formats and timeframes, supports a digital proxy voting process, and transmits meeting data and votes in real time, reducing manual data entry and eliminating paper-based transfer.

Proxymity

Series B in 2021
Proxymity is a London-based digital platform for investor communications and proxy voting. It provides an end-to-end solution that connects issuers, intermediaries, and investors in real time, enabling efficient, accurate, and transparent proxy voting and shareholder disclosure. The platform automates requests and responses in regulatory-compliant formats and timeframes, supports a digital proxy voting process, and transmits meeting data and votes in real time, reducing manual data entry and eliminating paper-based transfer.

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.

Proxymity

Corporate Round in 2020
Proxymity is a London-based digital platform for investor communications and proxy voting. It provides an end-to-end solution that connects issuers, intermediaries, and investors in real time, enabling efficient, accurate, and transparent proxy voting and shareholder disclosure. The platform automates requests and responses in regulatory-compliant formats and timeframes, supports a digital proxy voting process, and transmits meeting data and votes in real time, reducing manual data entry and eliminating paper-based transfer.

Rupert.

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Rupert Inc. is a data operation platform founded in 2019 and headquartered in New York, New York. The company focuses on enhancing business analyst services by addressing inefficiencies in data processing. Its platform automates work processes, allowing users to streamline their tasks and access contextual data for informed decision-making. Rupert's no-code alert builder enables data teams of all sizes to create custom alerts without the need for engineering support, facilitating seamless integration with various data stacks. By simplifying the analytics process, Rupert aims to help organizations achieve meaningful insights and drive business outcomes more efficiently.

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.

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.

Axoni

Series A in 2016
Axoni is a technology company specializing in real-time data replication solutions tailored for the financial industry. Established in 2017, it focuses on serving major financial institutions, including banks, asset managers, hedge funds, and market infrastructure firms worldwide, with offices located in New York and London. The company's platform facilitates the rapid and reliable deployment of critical financial networks, ensuring automated, real-time data replication among market participants. Additionally, Axoni develops distributed ledger software that integrates traditional financial technologies with blockchain capabilities, enhancing market information, trend analysis, and communication networks. This innovative approach allows financial entities to modernize their systems related to legal records, lifecycle events, and cash flow calculations, thereby improving operational efficiency and data management.

LiveNinja

Venture Round in 2016
LiveNinja is a Miami-based company founded in 2011 that specializes in providing a video chat marketplace platform. The company connects users with experts across various fields, facilitating direct learning and assistance. LiveNinja's communication tools, particularly the LiveNinja Messenger app, streamline customer interactions by consolidating conversations into a single message thread, enhancing the overall customer experience. The company is dedicated to empowering individuals globally by making expert advice and services accessible anytime and anywhere.

Selerity

Series C in 2016
Selerity is a financial technology company specializing in real-time event data solutions for the financial services sector. It provides high-quality, personalized content tailored for professionals in finance, enabling them to enhance engagement and streamline workflows. Selerity's offerings include contextual search solutions and automation processes designed for capital markets and digital wealth management. Its flagship product, Selerity Context, facilitates contextual search, while the Private Context Engine analyzes digital communications to automate workflows for finance professionals. Selerity serves a diverse clientele, including asset management firms, banks, and innovative media and technology companies, helping them integrate both proprietary and third-party content efficiently. This results in improved engagement, increased traffic, and higher customer satisfaction.

Tanium

Series F in 2015
Tanium Inc. is a provider of security and systems management solutions designed for enterprises and government organizations. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Kirkland, Washington, the company offers a comprehensive platform that enables real-time data collection and management of millions of endpoints. Its key offerings include the Tanium Endpoint Platform for securing and managing endpoints, as well as tools for asset tracking, software deployment, threat detection, and incident response. The platform enhances visibility and control, allowing security and IT teams to respond swiftly to potential threats and maintain business resilience. With applications in various industries, including banking and retail, Tanium also has strategic partnerships with firms like PwC and Palo Alto Networks. The company operates globally, with additional offices in several major cities across the United States and internationally.
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