# Arvind Purushotham

> Arvind Purushotham is a Series C investor at Citi Ventures backing Software and FinTech. See 19 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Citi Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/citi-ventures)
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 19
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 11%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arvindpurushotham

Arvind Purushotham is a Series C investor at Citi Ventures in Palo Alto focused on Software and FinTech. Arvind joined Citi Ventures as a Managing Director in January 2011 to help build the strategic venture investing program. His areas of interest include Security, Fraud, Cloud technologies, and Next Gen Financial Services. At Citi, he has led investments in Betterment, Chef, Click Security, Persado, Pindrop, Silver Tail Systems (acq by EMC), Taniumand vArmour. In addition to making and managing investments, he is deeply involved in executing partnerships with these portfolio companies. Prior to Citi, Arvind spent nearly a decade as a Managing Director at Menlo Ventures. There, he was an investor and Board member in companies such as Kazeon Systems, Cavium Networks, Solidcore, nCircle Network Security, Intelligent Results and Vhayu Technologies. Previously, Arvind was a design engineer, and a Program Manager, in the Mobile Pentium group at Intel Corporation.Arvind obtained his BSEE from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, an MSEE from Case Western Reserve University, and an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School. He lives in Palo Alto, CA, with his wife and two sons.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 32% |
| FinTech | 3 | 16% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 16% |
| Security | 2 | 11% |
| Analytics | 2 | 11% |

34 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 6 | 32% |
| Series D | 3 | 16% |
| Series B | 2 | 11% |
| Series E | 2 | 11% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 11% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 37% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Quantifind | Quantifind provides AI solutions for anti-money laundering and fraud detection that uniquely discover risk by combining internal financial institution data with public domain data. Founded in 2008 by two atomic physics Ph.D.s, the company has offices in Silicon Valley, New York, and Washington, DC. For more information, please visithttp://www.quantifind.com. | $200M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 26, 2026 |  |
| BVNK | BVNK provides APIs that enable businesses to send, receive, store, and convert fiat and digital currencies. Its platform supports cross-border transactions, stablecoin payments, and real-time settlement, allowing companies to integrate crypto and traditional finance into their operations. The company offers wallet services, payment rails, andtreasury management tools designed for enterprises handling multi-currency flows. It also includes compliance features such as transaction monitoring and identity verification to support regulatory requirements. BVNK serves industries including fintech, marketplaces, and financial services by enabling programmable payments and automated financial workflows. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 09, 2025 |  |
| Quantifind | Quantifind provides AI solutions for anti-money laundering and fraud detection that uniquely discover risk by combining internal financial institution data with public domain data. Founded in 2008 by two atomic physics Ph.D.s, the company has offices in Silicon Valley, New York, and Washington, DC. For more information, please visithttp://www.quantifind.com. | $22M |  | Jan 17, 2025 |  |
| Writer | Writer is the AI writing assistant for the world’s smartest brands. We help brand owners and content leaders scale their messaging, communication style, and must-have language, no matter who’s writing. Top brands like Twitter, Intuit, and McKesson have standardized their content creation on Writer. | $200M | Series C | Nov 12, 2024 |  |
| Immersive | Immersive Labs develops a platform that measures and improves cybersecurity skills across businesses.It builds cyber skills content that rewards critical thinking, problem-solving, and curiosity. Immersing teams in challenges covering everything from spelling the word cyber to using technical tools, threat hunting, and reverse-engineeringmalware. All seamlessly accessed from the browser with no installation needed. Allowing users to complete objectives from anywhere and on any device. Immersive Labs empowers businesses to continuously develop skills, including ethical web hacking; ethical infrastructure hacking; reverse engineering; IoT/firmware security; and advanced cyber warrior CTF Challenges for enterprises, government, defense, and law enforcement agencies.The company was headquartered in Bristol, England in 2017 by James Hadley. | $66M | Series C | Oct 12, 2022 |  |
| Betterment | Betterment is a smart automated investing service that provides optimized investment returns for individual, IRA, ROTH IRA, and rollover 401(k) accounts. Its technology enables users to manage their investments in a customized, diversified portfolio. Charging a management fee of 0.25%, the company enables users to access, view, share, and reviewtheir portfolio’s activities as well as deposit and withdraw money from anywhere, anytime. Betterments products also include Tax Loss Harvesting, a program that works to offset taxes on both gains and income; and RetireGuide, a series of online surveys to enable users to determine the success of their long-term financial goals. | $60M | Series F | Sep 29, 2021 |  |
| Immersive | Immersive Labs develops a platform that measures and improves cybersecurity skills across businesses.It builds cyber skills content that rewards critical thinking, problem-solving, and curiosity. Immersing teams in challenges covering everything from spelling the word cyber to using technical tools, threat hunting, and reverse-engineeringmalware. All seamlessly accessed from the browser with no installation needed. Allowing users to complete objectives from anywhere and on any device. Immersive Labs empowers businesses to continuously develop skills, including ethical web hacking; ethical infrastructure hacking; reverse engineering; IoT/firmware security; and advanced cyber warrior CTF Challenges for enterprises, government, defense, and law enforcement agencies.The company was headquartered in Bristol, England in 2017 by James Hadley. | $75M | Series C | Jun 14, 2021 |  |
| Pindrop | Pindrop is propelling enterprises and consumers toward a voice-driven future by unlocking the value of every voice interaction. Interacting with a financial institution, a digital assistant, a video chat, or a smart device can provide access to our unique identity, and open new capabilities not possible without proper security or intelligenceevoked solely from a voice. | $90M | Series D | Dec 05, 2018 |  |
| Pindrop | Pindrop is propelling enterprises and consumers toward a voice-driven future by unlocking the value of every voice interaction. Interacting with a financial institution, a digital assistant, a video chat, or a smart device can provide access to our unique identity, and open new capabilities not possible without proper security or intelligenceevoked solely from a voice. | $80.8M | Series C | Aug 08, 2016 |  |
| vArmour | VArmour offers data-defined perimeter security solutions for mobile, virtual, and cloud platforms. It specializes in the fields of cybersecurity, mobile, software, and the internet. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Mountain View, California. | $41M | Series D | May 24, 2016 |  |

10 of 19 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Insight Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/insight-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Menlo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/menlo-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [S&P Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/s-p-global) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Anthemis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthemis-group) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bessemer-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Citi Ventures

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Citi Ventures utilizes Citi's resources to support individuals, businesses, and communities amid technological changes. Based in San Francisco with offices in New York, London, Palo Alto, Tel Aviv, and Singapore, Citi Ventures focuses on discovering new value by exploring, developing, and investing in innovative ideas, and collaborating withCiti employees, clients, and the broader innovation community.

5 contacts available at Citi Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Luis Valdich | Managing Director, Venture Investing | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/luis-valdich |
| Arvind Purushotham | Managing Director and Global Head, Venture Investing | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arvind-purushotham |
| Blaze O'Byrne | Vice President, Venture Investing | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blaze-obyrne |
| Jesse Podell | SVP | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jesse-podell |
| Lucas Kirshenbaum | Assistant Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lucas-kirshenbaum-b11e |

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## FAQ

### What does Arvind Purushotham invest in?

Arvind Purushotham invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series C and Series D stage. Most of the 19 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Arvind Purushotham last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Arvind Purushotham closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 19 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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