Citi Ventures
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Citi Ventures is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Financial Services and FinTech. 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 with Citi employees, clients, and the broader innovation community.
- Total investments:
- 294
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 16%
Last updated:
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Industries Citi Ventures invests in
Stages Citi Ventures invests in
Countries Citi Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Round size
- Series A
- $5M–$40M
- Series B
- $15M–$80M
- Series C
- $28M–$200M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 78 (27%)
- FinTech 77 (26%)
- Software 66 (22%)
- Artificial Intelligence 39 (13%)
- Finance 34 (12%)
Stage
- Series B 68 (23%)
- Series A 45 (15%)
- Series C 44 (15%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 30 (10%)
- Series D 29 (10%)
Country
- United States 145 (49%)
- United Kingdom 13 (4%)
- Canada 6 (2%)
- Israel 6 (2%)
- Singapore 4 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Luis Valdich
Managing Director, Venture Investing
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Managing Director, Venture Investing | Total investments: 74 | Find email | |
Arvind Purushotham
Managing Director and Global Head, Venture Investing
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Managing Director and Global Head, Venture Investing | Total investments: 19 | Find email | |
Blaze O'Byrne
Vice President, Venture Investing
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Vice President, Venture Investing | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Jesse Podell
SVP
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SVP | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Lucas Kirshenbaum
Assistant Vice President
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Assistant Vice President | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 10 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vesta provides a cloud-based loan origination system designed for mortgage lenders. The platform features a data-centric architecture and a rules-driven workflow, enabling lenders to automate processes and enhance operational efficiency. Vesta's open ecosystem approach includes integrations with various partners across the mortgage technologysector, facilitating streamlined operations and compliance monitoring. The system offers a no-code interface for configuring business logic, allowing users to trigger tasks, quality checks, and automations based on loan data. Additionally, Vesta supports collaboration among multiple users within a loan file, providing real-time visibility into changes and a comprehensive audit trail. | $30M / Series B / Oct 08, 2026 | ||
| Homeward enables agents to let customers buy the home they want using an all-cash offer, and then sell their current property at full market value. The company is expanding in Texas, Georgia and Colorado, with plans to offer its solution to agents and home buyers nationwide. | $120M / Series D / Oct 01, 2026 | ||
| Rogodevelops an artificial intelligence platform designed specifically for financial institutions such as investment banks, private equity firms, and asset managers. The platform integrates with internal systems and external financial data sources to analyze large volumes of information, including filings, market data, and proprietary datasets, anddeliver structured outputs like financial models, reports, and presentations. It uses AI models and agent-based systems to automate workflows such as research, due diligence, and market analysis, enabling users to complete multi-step financial tasks within a single system. The company’s technology is built with input from professionals with backgrounds in finance and is tailored to reflect the workflows and requirements of high-finance environments. Its tools are used by financial professionals to reduce manual work, support decision-making, and streamline processes across transactions and portfolio management. | $30M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 10, 2026 | ||
| Skan.ai uses cognitive technologies to map, model, and manage business processes by creating digital twins of human/digital interactions. Skan.ai replaces human interviews and observation, which are not accurate, by cognitive tooling that learns based on observation of human/digital work. Skan does this at scale and learns /reconstructs business processes grounds up. This approach is significantly faster, more accurate, and has much greater depth and coverage. | $63M / Series C / Aug 12, 2026 | ||
| Straiker builds AI-native security solutions tp protect customers from a spectrum of security & safety risks. | $64M / Series A / Jun 29, 2026 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Wealth.com provides an artificial intelligence-powered estate and tax planning platform designed for financial advisors, enabling them to deliver structured, ongoing wealth planning services to clients. The company’s software integrates estate planning, tax analysis, and financial data into a single system that supports the creation, management,and continuous optimization of wealth strategies. Its core platform allows advisors to generate legal estate planning documents such as wills, trusts, and powers of attorney, while also offering tools to visualize wealth transfer scenarios and model long-term outcomes. The system includes a client portal where individuals can upload documents, track assets, and collaborate with advisors and other professionals involved in their financial planning. | $65M / Series B / Apr 16, 2026 | ||
| Prophet Security provides security operations by automating the triage, investigation and response process. | Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 25, 2026 | ||
| Jump is an AI-powered assistant that redefines how wealth advisors manage their client interactions and compliance tasks. Created to turn conversations into actionable tasks, comprehensive notes, and compliance records, Jump offers a complete solution for advisors seeking efficiency and accuracy in their daily operations. | $80M / Series B / Feb 19, 2026 | ||
| TRM Labs is a blockchain intelligence company that helps financial institutions, crypto businesses, and government agencies detect and investigate crypto-related financial crime and fraud. Our products are trusted by leading companies including PayPal, Visa, FTX, Uniswap, Anchorage, and federal agencies such as the FBI and IRS. Every day, we tacklechallenges in data engineering, data science, and threat intelligence to advance our mission to build a safer financial system for billions of people. To accomplish our mission, we have raised over $79M from JPMorgan Chase, Visa, Citi, PayPal, Block, Tiger Global, and Bessemer. Our team is made up of world class experts from the FBI, U.S. Secret Service, US Treasury Department, McKinsey, Coinbase, and top-tier tech companies. TRM is a remote-first workplace, with hubs in San Francisco, Washington, DC, and London. | $70M / Series C / Feb 04, 2026 | ||
| See all 294 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Citi Ventures invest in?
Citi Ventures invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 294 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Citi Ventures invest in?
Citi Ventures typically joins rounds of $5M–$40M at Series A, $15M–$80M at Series B and $28M–$200M at Series C. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Citi Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Citi Ventures took part in.
How do I contact Citi Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Citi Ventures?
The team at Citi Ventures includes Luis Valdich (Managing Director, Venture Investing), Arvind Purushotham (Managing Director and Global Head, Venture Investing) and Blaze O'Byrne (Vice President, Venture Investing), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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