Citi Ventures

Citi Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Citigroup that leverages the bank’s resources to identify, incubate, and invest in innovative ideas at the intersection of finance and technology. Headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, London, Palo Alto, Tel Aviv, and Singapore, Citi Ventures collaborates with Citi colleagues, clients, and the broader innovation community to discover new value and accelerate the development of transformative technologies. The firm focuses on fintech, data analytics and machine learning, the future of commerce, security and enterprise IT, marketing, property technology, distributed ledger technology, and digital assets, pursuing strategic investments that complement Citi’s business lines and risk management capabilities. Since its founding, Citi Ventures has sought to build partnerships and portfolios that support entrepreneurship and technological progress, helping individuals, businesses, and communities adapt to rapid digital change while expanding Citi’s ecosystem and capabilities.

Avi Arnon

Senior Vice President

Krishna Balachanader

Managing Director

Thompson Barro

Vice President

Matt Carbonara

Managing Director

Alex Chen

Vice President - Venture Investing

Past deals in Commercial Real Estate

Sotherly Hotels

Post in 2024
Sotherly Hotels is a lodging real estate investment trust that specializes in owning, acquiring, renovating, and repositioning full-service, upscale, and upper-upscale hotel properties. The company focuses on high-quality hotels primarily situated in high-growth markets across the Southern United States and the mid-Atlantic region. Sotherly Hotels generates revenue through various services, including room bookings, food, and beverages. Its portfolio spans several states, including Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Virginia, reflecting a strategic commitment to operating in primary markets with robust demand for hospitality services.

Loft

Venture Round in 2023
Loft is a Brazilian real estate technology company that operates a transactional marketplace and online property platform. Founded in 2018 and based in São Paulo, Loft provides an end-to-end digital workflow to manage home buying and selling, facilitating transactions for individuals, brokers, and publicly listed REITs. The platform combines proprietary transaction data with a searchable property database and integrated services to streamline search, valuation, and deal execution, bringing the Brazilian homebuying experience into the e-commerce era. It offers access to residential and commercial properties, with user feedback and ratings supporting transparent transactions. Loft aims to simplify real estate deals through digital tools and data-driven processes, reducing friction in buying and selling properties across the Brazilian market.

Claira

Venture Round in 2022
Claira’s deal intelligence platform for finance automates your deal pipeline, deal origination and deal management while streamlining business processes, enabling deep business insights, & empowering business leaders to make more informed decisions. Whether you're working on behalf of your firm or providing advisory, consulting or legal services across multiple firms, Claira will assist you in achieving efficiency, control, compliance and risk management across a variety of finance & insurance business areas: * Private Credit Analysis; * Investment Management; * Commercial Real Estate; * Asset Management; * Capital Markets; * Commercial Real Estate; * Corporate Banking; * Credit and Lending; * Digital Assets; * Fund Administration; * Hedge Funds; * Insurance; * Investment Banking, M&A; * Investment Management; * Legal, Reg, & Compliance; * Prime Brokerage; * Private Equity, Private Placement, VC; * Real Estate; * Retail Banking; * Wealth Management; etc. Claira is pre-trained and pre-configured with insight modules that don't require your time and effort to train our models on your documents. Claira's unique approach using computational linguistics and sentence-level, deep-semantic parsing provides greater understanding and higher accuracy. Claira's answers are fully traceable and transparent because Claira understands language, just like you. For each document, Claira shows you how we concluded for you to understand and be fully confident in your actions. Claira was created by top data scientists and engineers experienced in solving complex non-finance problems alongside financial service experts on a mission to digitize traditional finance. Claira launched in 2024 and is based in New York, USA.

Lev

Series B in 2022
Founded in 2019, Lev specializes in digitizing commercial real estate transactions via its technology platform. It offers financial services, including lending solutions and capital management.

Factory_OS

Series B in 2020
Factory OS, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells modular re-locatable apartment buildings and residential homes, specializing in off-site construction. Established in 2017 and headquartered in Vallejo, California, the company offers a wide range of modular solutions, including multi-family residential homes, prefabricated townhouses, modular apartments, and various commercial structures such as office buildings and retail locations. Factory OS employs an integrated and tech-enabled approach to streamline the housing development process, focusing on reducing waste, controlling energy consumption, and enhancing building efficiency. The company is committed to innovation through an active research and development program that incorporates advancements in design, technology, and construction methods.

Loft

Series C in 2020
Loft is a Brazilian real estate technology company that operates a transactional marketplace and online property platform. Founded in 2018 and based in São Paulo, Loft provides an end-to-end digital workflow to manage home buying and selling, facilitating transactions for individuals, brokers, and publicly listed REITs. The platform combines proprietary transaction data with a searchable property database and integrated services to streamline search, valuation, and deal execution, bringing the Brazilian homebuying experience into the e-commerce era. It offers access to residential and commercial properties, with user feedback and ratings supporting transparent transactions. Loft aims to simplify real estate deals through digital tools and data-driven processes, reducing friction in buying and selling properties across the Brazilian market.

Reonomy

Series D in 2019
Reonomy specializes in commercial real estate data and analytics. It uses big data, partnerships, and machine learning to provide comprehensive property intelligence, enabling professionals to discover new opportunities and make informed decisions.

Factory_OS

Corporate Round in 2019
Factory OS, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells modular re-locatable apartment buildings and residential homes, specializing in off-site construction. Established in 2017 and headquartered in Vallejo, California, the company offers a wide range of modular solutions, including multi-family residential homes, prefabricated townhouses, modular apartments, and various commercial structures such as office buildings and retail locations. Factory OS employs an integrated and tech-enabled approach to streamline the housing development process, focusing on reducing waste, controlling energy consumption, and enhancing building efficiency. The company is committed to innovation through an active research and development program that incorporates advancements in design, technology, and construction methods.

Koram Bank

Acquisition in 2004
KorAm is the sixth largest commercial bank in Korea

Citibanamex

Acquisition in 2001
Founded in 1884, Citibanamex is a commercial bank headquartered in Mexico City, offering a range of financial services including personal and corporate banking, credit cards, mortgage loans, personal loans, currency exchange rates, debt financing, loans, financial leasing, revolving credit, and business checking accounts.

Vontive

Vontive is a developer of an embedded mortgage platform designed to finance investment properties. The platform offers a no-code, white-label solution that allows businesses serving real estate investors to launch their own investment-property mortgage operations in 1-2 weeks. It creates a direct conduit to finance investment property mortgages, connects to a debt marketplace, and streamlines capital allocation at scale, enabling real estate investors to access predictable, cost-effective financing and compete with cash buyers.
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