# Citi Ventures

> Citi Ventures is a VC fund backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 276 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 276
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 16%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/citiventures
- Website: http://ventures.citi.com

Citi Ventures is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on FinTech and Financial Services. 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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $5M–$33M |
| Series B | $15M–$80M |
| Series C | $28M–$200M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 65 | 24% |
| Financial Services | 65 | 24% |
| Software | 60 | 22% |
| Finance | 29 | 11% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 26 | 9% |

172 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 62 | 22% |
| Series A | 42 | 15% |
| Series C | 41 | 15% |
| Funding Round | 29 | 11% |
| Series D | 25 | 9% |

14 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 118 | 43% |
| United Kingdom | 13 | 5% |
| Canada | 6 | 2% |
| Israel | 6 | 2% |
| Singapore | 4 | 1% |

17 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Luis Valdich | Managing Director, Venture Investing | 74 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/luis-valdich |
| Arvind Purushotham | Managing Director and Global Head, Venture Investing | 19 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arvind-purushotham |
| Blaze O'Byrne | Vice President, Venture Investing | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blaze-obyrne |
| Jesse Podell | SVP | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jesse-podell |
| Lucas Kirshenbaum | Assistant Vice President | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lucas-kirshenbaum-b11e |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Straiker | Straiker builds AI-native security solutions tp protect customers from a spectrum of security & safety risks. | $64M | Series A | Jun 29, 2026 |  |
| 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 |  |
| 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 |  |
| 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 |  |
| Wealth.com | 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 | Prophet Security provides security operations by automating the triage, investigation and response process. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 25, 2026 |  |
| Jump | 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 | 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 |  |
| Adaptive Security | Adaptive Security is a computer network security company that focuses on deepfake attacks and provides cybersecurity services. | $81M | Series B | Dec 16, 2025 |  |
| PolyAI | PolyAI develops conversational artificial intelligence software that enables organizations to automate customer service interactions through voice-based virtual agents. The company provides a platform that uses natural language understanding to handle inbound phone conversations, answer questions, complete tasks, and route calls based on customerintent. Its technology integrates with existing contact center systems and business tools to support order management, account inquiries, bookings, and issue resolution. PolyAI also offers tools for conversation design, testing, deployment, and performance monitoring to help teams manage and update voice interactions over time. The platform supports multiple languages and accents and is designed to operate continuously while collecting structured data from conversations for analysis and operational improvement. | $86M | Series D | Dec 15, 2025 |  |

10 of 276 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Citi Ventures invest in?

Citi Ventures invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Software startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 276 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Citi Ventures's check size?

Citi Ventures typically joins rounds of $5M–$33M at Series A, $15M–$80M at Series B and $28M–$200M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Citi Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Citi Ventures?

Public channels for Citi Ventures include X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### 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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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