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.

Avi Arnon

Vice President

Krishna Balachanader

Managing Director

Thompson Barro

Vice President

Matt Carbonara

Managing Director

Alex Chen

Vice President - Venture Investing

Past deals in API

Belvo

Venture Round in 2025
Belvo is an open finance API platform founded in 2019 and headquartered in Mexico City. The company enables financial innovators to connect their users' accounts to various applications, facilitating the access and interpretation of financial data in a straightforward and scalable manner. Belvo's platform allows developers to gain insights into user behavior and manage financial transactions efficiently, thus helping businesses to streamline operations and create new revenue opportunities through a unified open finance solution.

TransFICC

Series B in 2025
TransFICC specializes in low-latency connectivity solutions for banks and asset managers trading in Fixed Income and Derivatives markets. It offers a unified API that simplifies access to multiple execution venues, ensuring microsecond timestamping of data and comprehensive audit trails to support best execution requirements.

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.

Validis

Venture Round in 2025
Validis Holdings Ltd. is a FinTech company based in London, with an additional office in Austin, Texas, that specializes in financial data transmission software. Its primary product, Validis, facilitates secure and efficient access to clients' financial data, specifically targeting accountancy firms, financial institutions, and commercial businesses. The software connects directly to mid-tier accounting packages, allowing for high-speed data retrieval and automated extraction of financial information. Validis generates standardized reports and detailed analytics, enabling lenders to review client data quickly and accurately. This streamlined process not only accelerates the onboarding of clients for funding applications but also enhances the ongoing monitoring of client performance and compliance. Established in 2007, Validis aims to improve the efficiency of financial data management and support lenders in making informed decisions.

Pylon

Venture Round in 2024
Pylon offers a digital mortgage-lending platform that enables businesses to integrate mortgage services into their products. Based in New York, it provides APIs, UI components, and capital markets stack for origination, underwriting, processing, funding, and closing of loans.

Finix

Series C in 2024
Finix develops a B2B payment processing platform that enables businesses to own, manage, and monetize their payments. The platform uses modular architecture and real-time tracking to consolidate payment data and facilitate global money transfers.

Paywatch

Debt Financing in 2024
Paywatch is a company that has developed a platform allowing employees to access their earned wages before the official payday. By partnering with major banks, Paywatch facilitates low-cost financing for workers seeking immediate access to their earnings. The platform assesses how much work an employee has completed and allows them to withdraw funds accordingly. This service not only provides quick financial relief but also aids employees in becoming banked, establishing credit, and achieving financial stability. Through its innovative approach, Paywatch aims to empower workers to lead healthier financial lives.

Traceable

Venture Round in 2024
Traceable Inc. is a security solutions provider focused on protecting cloud-native applications, particularly through comprehensive API security. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, the company offers an end-to-end application security monitoring platform that safeguards application activity from users to APIs and code. Its innovative approach includes an API Data Lake at the core of its platform, enabling intelligent and context-aware security management. Traceable’s solutions encompass threat protection, security posture management, and insights for forensic analysis, all designed to minimize risks and enhance the value of APIs within organizations' software development lifecycles. By leveraging machine learning technology, Traceable analyzes user interactions and application behavior to detect anomalies and assess attack attempts, thereby enabling businesses to strengthen their security operations effectively.

Datavolo

Series A in 2024
Datavolo is a Software as a Service (SaaS) company that empowers organizations to leverage their unstructured data effectively. Its core product is a dataflow infrastructure platform, which enables access to all types of data, including unstructured files. This platform captures unstructured data, replaces single-use, point-to-point code with flexible, reusable pipelines, allowing clients to focus on generative AI tasks.

Tuum

Series B in 2024
Tuum is a cloud-native banking platform that is spearheading the next generation of digital innovation in the financial services industry. Built around a microservices architecture, the platform consists of flexible and independent modules covering all retail and business banking capabilities. The platform is API-based for quick and easy integration and can run on all major cloud providers, as well as on private clouds. Founded by a team of banking and technology experts in 2019, Tuum combines technological excellence with in-depth banking knowledge and packages it into a sophisticated, cutting-edge platform. Tuum currently employs over 60 people with offices in Tallinn, Berlin and Malaga.

Defacto

Series A in 2023
Defacto is a fintech company that specializes in providing credit infrastructure through an API aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises. The company has developed an invoice financing platform that addresses the working capital needs of businesses engaged in B2B transactions. This platform enables companies to finance their invoices and offers the flexibility to repay loans when their customers settle their payments. By facilitating early payments to suppliers and automating payout and reconciliation processes, Defacto helps businesses manage their cash flow efficiently and streamline their financial operations.

Defacto

Debt Financing in 2023
Defacto is a fintech company that specializes in providing credit infrastructure through an API aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises. The company has developed an invoice financing platform that addresses the working capital needs of businesses engaged in B2B transactions. This platform enables companies to finance their invoices and offers the flexibility to repay loans when their customers settle their payments. By facilitating early payments to suppliers and automating payout and reconciliation processes, Defacto helps businesses manage their cash flow efficiently and streamline their financial operations.

Pharmacierge

Seed Round in 2023
Pharmacierge operates a digital e-prescribing platform that enables private clinicians to create and transfer e-prescriptions to a partner pharmacy near London's Harley Street, supporting free delivery of prescribed medicines to patients worldwide. The service provides rapid, reliable fulfillment and digital payment options through secure links sent by phone, message, or email, and offers free medicine delivery to patients.

Hokodo

Series B in 2023
Founded in 2018, Hokodo is a European provider of B2B Buy Now, Pay Later solutions. It offers an easy-to-integrate digital platform that streamlines the order-to-cash process, enabling merchants to make real-time credit decisions, protect against bad debt, and access working capital finance options.

Deepgram

Series B in 2022
Deepgram designs and develops artificial intelligence-based automatic speech recognition solutions. Its platform enables enterprises to label, train, and deploy speech recognition models for converting audio data into insights and automating actions. Deepgram serves individual developers and Fortune 500 companies.

Banked

Series A in 2022
Banked operates a global payments platform that connects bank account data to third-party applications through secure APIs, enabling real-time, low-cost account-to-account payments. The platform supports bank account connections, spending analysis, balance and income verification, and consent-driven data sharing, allowing clients to access and use bank data across a wide range of apps while maintaining control and privacy. Founded in 2018 and based in London, Banked positions itself as a global payments network that supports flexible payment workflows for individuals, businesses, and financial institutions.

Access Fintech

Series C in 2022
Access Fintech provides risk management services for financial institutions. It offers a platform that aggregates data from internal systems and external sources, providing users with a unified view of risks associated with financial transactions. The platform enables collaboration across organizations, allowing control functions to adjust priorities based on market conditions and managers to oversee bottlenecks. Access Fintech was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.

Belvo

Venture Round in 2022
Belvo is an open finance API platform founded in 2019 and headquartered in Mexico City. The company enables financial innovators to connect their users' accounts to various applications, facilitating the access and interpretation of financial data in a straightforward and scalable manner. Belvo's platform allows developers to gain insights into user behavior and manage financial transactions efficiently, thus helping businesses to streamline operations and create new revenue opportunities through a unified open finance solution.

Amberdata

Series B in 2022
Amberdata is a data platform that provides blockchain and cryptocurrency market data through a software-as-a-service offering. It combines validated blockchain and crypto market data from leading exchanges into a unified platform and API, enabling customers to build data-powered applications and gain competitive insights. The platform offers tools, APIs, and SDKs for traders, investors, wallets, and developers, delivering real-time and historical data on blockchain networks, crypto markets, and decentralized finance, and helping financial institutions conduct research, manage risk, and ensure compliance.

Fidel API

Series B in 2022
Fidel API is a financial infrastructure platform that allows developers to create programmable experiences during transaction events on payment cards. Established in 2018 and headquartered in London, with additional offices in Lisbon and New York, Fidel API provides tools that enhance interactions between merchants and consumers by facilitating real-time, event-driven engagements. The platform is designed to integrate seamlessly with major payment networks, such as Visa and Mastercard, to deliver detailed transaction data, including amount, location, date, and merchant. This capability supports improved marketing strategies and customer engagement through tailored loyalty and rewards programs, as well as streamlined processes for reimbursements and expense management. The company serves a diverse clientele, ranging from startups to large enterprises, and has established partnerships with prominent firms across various sectors.

TransFICC

Venture Round in 2022
TransFICC specializes in low-latency connectivity solutions for banks and asset managers trading in Fixed Income and Derivatives markets. It offers a unified API that simplifies access to multiple execution venues, ensuring microsecond timestamping of data and comprehensive audit trails to support best execution requirements.

Amberdata

Series A in 2021
Amberdata is a data platform that provides blockchain and cryptocurrency market data through a software-as-a-service offering. It combines validated blockchain and crypto market data from leading exchanges into a unified platform and API, enabling customers to build data-powered applications and gain competitive insights. The platform offers tools, APIs, and SDKs for traders, investors, wallets, and developers, delivering real-time and historical data on blockchain networks, crypto markets, and decentralized finance, and helping financial institutions conduct research, manage risk, and ensure compliance.

Car IQ

Series B in 2021
Car IQ Inc. is a technology company that develops and operates a cloud-based vehicle management platform and payment gateway, primarily serving auto dealer groups, car sharing clients, and autonomous drivers. Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California, Car IQ's innovative payment solution allows vehicles to initiate payments directly without the need for credit cards. By leveraging telematics and vehicle data, the platform connects vehicles to service and repair providers, streamlining transactions and enhancing security. It provides detailed vehicle insights for fleet management, enabling clients to monitor transactions and reduce the risk of fraud. Additionally, Car IQ consolidates all transactions into a single ledger, simplifying reconciliation and allowing fleets to manage their expenses more effectively.

Proof

Series D in 2021
Proof operates as a technology company specializing in secure digital transactions. It provides an identity-assured transaction management platform that verifies the identities of individuals engaging in online business dealings. By confirming identities and securing transactions, Proof helps protect both businesses and their customers from fraudulent activities, fostering trust in digital environments.

Deepgram

Series B in 2021
Deepgram designs and develops artificial intelligence-based automatic speech recognition solutions. Its platform enables enterprises to label, train, and deploy speech recognition models for converting audio data into insights and automating actions. Deepgram serves individual developers and Fortune 500 companies.

Arcus Financial Intelligence

Venture Round in 2020
Arcus Financial Intelligence, Inc. is a New York-based company that develops and operates a comprehensive application program interface (API) platform tailored for banks and financial institutions. Founded in 2012 and formerly known as Regalii Inc., Arcus specializes in managing consumer bills and financial data. Its platform enables real-time bill management and payment services, providing users with a detailed overview of their financial obligations, including the number of bills, amounts owed, and due dates. Additionally, Arcus offers a multi-rail payment platform that facilitates accessible payment solutions for businesses, supporting various payment methods such as account-to-account transfers and cash transactions.

Access Fintech

Series B in 2020
Access Fintech provides risk management services for financial institutions. It offers a platform that aggregates data from internal systems and external sources, providing users with a unified view of risks associated with financial transactions. The platform enables collaboration across organizations, allowing control functions to adjust priorities based on market conditions and managers to oversee bottlenecks. Access Fintech was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.

Nylas

Series B in 2020
Nylas Inc., established in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, develops a communications platform-as-a-service (CPaaS) that facilitates seamless connectivity between applications and email, calendar, and contact services. The company's flagship product, Nylas, enables businesses worldwide to automate manual tasks, create personalized experiences, and gain insights from communication data. It offers bi-directional sync with major providers like Gmail, Outlook.com, Microsoft Exchange, Office 365, and IMAP, supporting embedded calendar features and recurring events. Nylas operates additional locations in New York and Denver.

Anvil

Series A in 2020
Anvil is an API-based platform that automates paperwork processes for businesses. It enables non-developers to transform offline, paper-heavy workflows into simple online experiences in hours. The platform ensures secure online form creation and seamless integration with existing software.

TransFICC

Series A in 2020
TransFICC specializes in low-latency connectivity solutions for banks and asset managers trading in Fixed Income and Derivatives markets. It offers a unified API that simplifies access to multiple execution venues, ensuring microsecond timestamping of data and comprehensive audit trails to support best execution requirements.

Akoya

Seed Round in 2020
Akoya, LLC is a Boston-based company founded in 2018 that specializes in transforming the way financial data is shared between consumers and third-party applications. The Akoya Data Delivery Platform provides financial institutions with a secure and transparent service that allows consumers to grant and manage access to their financial data through application programming interfaces (APIs), eliminating the need for screen scraping and reducing the risks associated with sharing login information. The platform features an easy-to-use dashboard, detailed reports, and robust consumer protection measures. Akoya enables financial institutions, fintech companies, and data aggregators to establish multiple API connections through a single integration, streamlining data-sharing relationships while minimizing internal and external costs. The network prioritizes security, transparency, and scalability, operating a passthrough model that does not store or hold any financial or personal data. This interoperable solution is designed for the entire financial services industry.

Fidel API

Series A in 2019
Fidel API is a financial infrastructure platform that allows developers to create programmable experiences during transaction events on payment cards. Established in 2018 and headquartered in London, with additional offices in Lisbon and New York, Fidel API provides tools that enhance interactions between merchants and consumers by facilitating real-time, event-driven engagements. The platform is designed to integrate seamlessly with major payment networks, such as Visa and Mastercard, to deliver detailed transaction data, including amount, location, date, and merchant. This capability supports improved marketing strategies and customer engagement through tailored loyalty and rewards programs, as well as streamlined processes for reimbursements and expense management. The company serves a diverse clientele, ranging from startups to large enterprises, and has established partnerships with prominent firms across various sectors.

Car IQ

Series A in 2019
Car IQ Inc. is a technology company that develops and operates a cloud-based vehicle management platform and payment gateway, primarily serving auto dealer groups, car sharing clients, and autonomous drivers. Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California, Car IQ's innovative payment solution allows vehicles to initiate payments directly without the need for credit cards. By leveraging telematics and vehicle data, the platform connects vehicles to service and repair providers, streamlining transactions and enhancing security. It provides detailed vehicle insights for fleet management, enabling clients to monitor transactions and reduce the risk of fraud. Additionally, Car IQ consolidates all transactions into a single ledger, simplifying reconciliation and allowing fleets to manage their expenses more effectively.

Access Fintech

Series A in 2018
Access Fintech provides risk management services for financial institutions. It offers a platform that aggregates data from internal systems and external sources, providing users with a unified view of risks associated with financial transactions. The platform enables collaboration across organizations, allowing control functions to adjust priorities based on market conditions and managers to oversee bottlenecks. Access Fintech was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.

TransFICC

Corporate Round in 2018
TransFICC specializes in low-latency connectivity solutions for banks and asset managers trading in Fixed Income and Derivatives markets. It offers a unified API that simplifies access to multiple execution venues, ensuring microsecond timestamping of data and comprehensive audit trails to support best execution requirements.

Patkai Networks

Series A in 2000
Patkai Networks is focused on the development of solutions that enable online businesses to connect and partner with others in the industry. Patkai Networks offers infrastructure and application software, including databases, application servers, B2B exchanges, and CRM applications. Patkai Networks is based in Burlingame, California and was founded by Joseph Yen and Deep Nishar in 2000.

CrediLinq.Ai

CrediLinq.Ai is a technology infrastructure company that enables B2B platforms to offer embedded finance solutions to their customers. It facilitates 'PayLater' for buyers and 'PayNow' for sellers, aiming to enhance conversion rates, increase average order volumes, and reduce operational burdens.
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