Citi

Citi, a global financial services holding company, operates through two primary segments: Global Consumer Banking (GCB) and Institutional Clients Group (ICG). The GCB segment caters to retail customers, offering traditional banking services, Citi-branded cards, and retail services. The ICG segment serves corporate, institutional, and high-net-worth clients, providing a wide range of banking, financial, and investment services. Citi also manages approximately $4.3 billion in equity investments and committed capital through its global emerging markets private equity arm, CVCI. Additionally, Citi Ventures, the company's venture capital arm, invests in innovative ideas across sectors like fintech, data analytics, and digital assets, fostering growth and collaboration with Citi colleagues, clients, and the broader innovation ecosystem.

Avi Arnon

Senior Vice President

Krishna Balachanader

Managing Director

Thompson Barro

Senior Vice President, Venture Investing

Karine Ben-Simhon

VP Intelligence Partnerships and Innovation

Matt Carbonara

Managing Director

Kateryna Chupryna

Director

Cagla Kaymaz

Senior Vice President

Everett Leonidas

Director

Robert Li

Vice President, Citi Ventures

Gaurav Mehta

Senior Vice President

Blaze O'Byrne

Vice President, Venture Investing

Arvind Purushotham

Founder&Managing Director and Global Head

Vibhor Rastogi

Global Director, AI / ML / Data Investing at Citi Ventures

Meredith Shields

Managing Director

Ornit Shinar

Director and Head, Venture Investing

Cece Stewart

President

Kate Sullivan

COO

Avery Tiras

Equity Research Senior Associate

Luis Valdich

Managing Director, Venture Investing

Jelena Zec

Director

Past deals in Fraud Detection

Atomic

Venture Round in 2025
Atomic FI is a technology company focused on enhancing consumer engagement within the financial services sector. It aims to launch a range of innovative products, starting with a balance transfer solution for credit cards, home equity lines of credit, and potentially auto loans. The company’s platform enables users to connect their payroll accounts securely using payroll credentials, thereby reducing fraud and streamlining the transaction process through multi-step verification. This approach addresses the current manual and error-prone nature of financial transactions, improving efficiency and user experience significantly. By increasing transaction speed by four to five times, Atomic FI positions itself to provide superior solutions that address critical pain points for both financial institutions and fintech companies.

Quantifind

Venture Round in 2025
Quantifind, Inc. is a data science company that specializes in creating on-demand insights platforms aimed at enhancing marketing effectiveness and detecting financial crimes such as money laundering and fraud. Founded in 2008 by two Ph.D. graduates in atomic physics, the company offers several key products, including signum Analysis, which helps users assess performance drivers for brands and competitors; signum Voice, which focuses on revenue drivers; and signum Impact, which measures the effects of sponsorships on brand awareness and sales. Additionally, Quantifind's platform integrates internal financial institution data with public domain data to identify risks, thereby assisting financial crime analysts in minimizing false positive alerts and managing risk. The company serves various sectors, including automotive, consumer packaged goods, entertainment, financial services, pharmaceuticals, retail, and telecommunications, and has established a strategic partnership with Oracle Financial Services. Quantifind is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with additional offices in Silicon Valley, New York, and Washington, D.C.

Binalyze

Series A in 2023
Binalyze operates a digital forensics response platform designed for incident response investigations and threat hunting. Its platform facilitates rapid and thorough evidence collection, triage, and incident investigation, allowing organizations to generate structured digital forensics reports within minutes. By streamlining the process of responding to cyber threats, Binalyze helps companies mitigate the complexity and cost associated with combating cybercrime and enhances their ability to prevent malicious attacks.

Quantifind

Venture Round in 2023
Quantifind, Inc. is a data science company that specializes in creating on-demand insights platforms aimed at enhancing marketing effectiveness and detecting financial crimes such as money laundering and fraud. Founded in 2008 by two Ph.D. graduates in atomic physics, the company offers several key products, including signum Analysis, which helps users assess performance drivers for brands and competitors; signum Voice, which focuses on revenue drivers; and signum Impact, which measures the effects of sponsorships on brand awareness and sales. Additionally, Quantifind's platform integrates internal financial institution data with public domain data to identify risks, thereby assisting financial crime analysts in minimizing false positive alerts and managing risk. The company serves various sectors, including automotive, consumer packaged goods, entertainment, financial services, pharmaceuticals, retail, and telecommunications, and has established a strategic partnership with Oracle Financial Services. Quantifind is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with additional offices in Silicon Valley, New York, and Washington, D.C.

Justt

Series B in 2021
Justt is a company that specializes in chargeback mitigation solutions for eCommerce merchants. It has developed an automated platform that utilizes artificial intelligence technology to combat illegitimate chargebacks. This platform is designed to streamline the process for merchants by offering an intuitive user dashboard, allowing them to easily track the status of their chargebacks. By leveraging this technology, Justt enables businesses to implement effective strategies to recover lost funds resulting from chargebacks.

Car IQ

Series B in 2021
Car IQ Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in a cloud-based vehicle management platform and payment gateway tailored for auto dealer groups, car sharing services, and autonomous drivers. Founded in 2016, the company has developed an automotive-grade payment solution that allows vehicles to initiate payments directly to merchants without the need for credit cards. By leveraging telematics and vehicle data, Car IQ's platform provides detailed insights into fleet operations, enabling clients to monitor transactions and prevent fraud effectively. The platform integrates seamlessly with existing technologies, consolidates all transactions into a single ledger, and facilitates management of spending, customer service, and inventory.

Trulioo

Series D in 2021
Trulioo is a global leader in identity verification, offering an electronic platform that enables businesses to instantly verify identities, documents, and corporate credentials online. The company's services facilitate compliance with cross-border anti-money laundering and know-your-customer regulations by assessing the risks associated with digital identities. Trulioo combines traditional methods of identity confirmation with social networking technologies to provide a robust solution for verifying identities in the online environment. Through its digital identity network, Trulioo helps businesses mitigate risks while ensuring secure transactions and accurate identity verification.

Feedzai

Series D in 2021
Feedzai is a global technology company specializing in AI-driven fraud prevention and financial crime management. Established in 2008, the company offers an end-to-end platform that ingests and analyzes diverse data streams, creating hypergranular risk profiles to detect and prevent fraud in real-time. Feedzai serves a wide range of clients, including banks, payment providers, merchants, and retailers, across multiple continents. Its solutions are designed to enhance customer experience while safeguarding trillions of dollars in transactions. The company is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with additional offices worldwide.

BioCatch

Series C in 2020
BioCatch is a pioneering company specializing in behavioral biometrics, which focuses on analyzing the digital behavior of online users to enhance fraud detection and prevention. By leveraging advanced cognitive science and machine learning, BioCatch provides insights that help financial institutions identify potential risks associated with user interactions while maintaining privacy. The company's technology is designed to combat increasingly sophisticated fraud tactics, including social engineering scams, and to streamline the digital banking experience from account creation to login and beyond. With over a decade of experience and a robust portfolio of patents, BioCatch is committed to driving innovation in the field of digital security, enabling clients to effectively combat fraud while fostering a trusted online environment.

Trulioo

Series C in 2019
Trulioo is a global leader in identity verification, offering an electronic platform that enables businesses to instantly verify identities, documents, and corporate credentials online. The company's services facilitate compliance with cross-border anti-money laundering and know-your-customer regulations by assessing the risks associated with digital identities. Trulioo combines traditional methods of identity confirmation with social networking technologies to provide a robust solution for verifying identities in the online environment. Through its digital identity network, Trulioo helps businesses mitigate risks while ensuring secure transactions and accurate identity verification.

Car IQ

Series A in 2019
Car IQ Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in a cloud-based vehicle management platform and payment gateway tailored for auto dealer groups, car sharing services, and autonomous drivers. Founded in 2016, the company has developed an automotive-grade payment solution that allows vehicles to initiate payments directly to merchants without the need for credit cards. By leveraging telematics and vehicle data, Car IQ's platform provides detailed insights into fleet operations, enabling clients to monitor transactions and prevent fraud effectively. The platform integrates seamlessly with existing technologies, consolidates all transactions into a single ledger, and facilitates management of spending, customer service, and inventory.

Pindrop

Series D in 2018
Pindrop is a developer of advanced phone fraud detection and call center authentication technology, focused on enhancing security, identity, and trust in voice interactions. The company offers solutions that authenticate phone devices through call audio analysis, enabling the detection of fraudulent calls and the verification of legitimate callers. By leveraging a comprehensive risk database, Pindrop's technology helps enterprise call centers and businesses streamline communication, reduce call handling time, and improve customer experience while minimizing fraud losses. With a commitment to unlocking the value of voice interactions, Pindrop is positioned to support both enterprises and consumers in navigating a voice-driven future.

Ondot Systems

Corporate Round in 2018
Ondot Systems, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in mobile card service platforms designed for financial institutions, including banks and credit unions. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Jose, California, with additional operations in Atlanta, Georgia, Ondot provides a range of solutions to enhance cardholder engagement. Its offerings include CardControl, which allows consumers to manage card settings and usage preferences, and CardAlerts, enabling users to receive transaction alerts. The Self Service feature lets consumers access detailed information about their cards and accounts on-the-go. Additionally, Ondot offers mConsole for product managers to track product adoption and troubleshoot issues, Fraud Watch for monitoring potential fraud, and a Card App that provides spending insights. The company's services aim to improve customer engagement and transparency for both physical and virtual cards, ultimately increasing the value of cardholder relationships.

Feedzai

Venture Round in 2016
Feedzai is a global technology company specializing in AI-driven fraud prevention and financial crime management. Established in 2008, the company offers an end-to-end platform that ingests and analyzes diverse data streams, creating hypergranular risk profiles to detect and prevent fraud in real-time. Feedzai serves a wide range of clients, including banks, payment providers, merchants, and retailers, across multiple continents. Its solutions are designed to enhance customer experience while safeguarding trillions of dollars in transactions. The company is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with additional offices worldwide.

Pindrop

Series C in 2016
Pindrop is a developer of advanced phone fraud detection and call center authentication technology, focused on enhancing security, identity, and trust in voice interactions. The company offers solutions that authenticate phone devices through call audio analysis, enabling the detection of fraudulent calls and the verification of legitimate callers. By leveraging a comprehensive risk database, Pindrop's technology helps enterprise call centers and businesses streamline communication, reduce call handling time, and improve customer experience while minimizing fraud losses. With a commitment to unlocking the value of voice interactions, Pindrop is positioned to support both enterprises and consumers in navigating a voice-driven future.

SymphonyAI Sensa

Series C in 2015
SymphonyAI Sensa specializes in advanced crime detection services tailored for financial institutions globally. Utilizing a unique blend of artificial intelligence and machine learning, Sensa identifies criminal activities that traditional detection systems often overlook. Customers have reported significant improvements, including an 81-fold enhancement in risk-to-alert ratios, a 263% increase in Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs), and a 77% reduction in false positives. The platform not only provides predictive insights but also streamlines operations by accurately pinpointing genuine anomalies within existing data. Sensa is designed to be user-friendly and offers fully explainable results, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.

Pindrop

Series B in 2015
Pindrop is a developer of advanced phone fraud detection and call center authentication technology, focused on enhancing security, identity, and trust in voice interactions. The company offers solutions that authenticate phone devices through call audio analysis, enabling the detection of fraudulent calls and the verification of legitimate callers. By leveraging a comprehensive risk database, Pindrop's technology helps enterprise call centers and businesses streamline communication, reduce call handling time, and improve customer experience while minimizing fraud losses. With a commitment to unlocking the value of voice interactions, Pindrop is positioned to support both enterprises and consumers in navigating a voice-driven future.

SymphonyAI Sensa

Series B in 2013
SymphonyAI Sensa specializes in advanced crime detection services tailored for financial institutions globally. Utilizing a unique blend of artificial intelligence and machine learning, Sensa identifies criminal activities that traditional detection systems often overlook. Customers have reported significant improvements, including an 81-fold enhancement in risk-to-alert ratios, a 263% increase in Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs), and a 77% reduction in false positives. The platform not only provides predictive insights but also streamlines operations by accurately pinpointing genuine anomalies within existing data. Sensa is designed to be user-friendly and offers fully explainable results, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.

Pindrop

Series A in 2013
Pindrop is a developer of advanced phone fraud detection and call center authentication technology, focused on enhancing security, identity, and trust in voice interactions. The company offers solutions that authenticate phone devices through call audio analysis, enabling the detection of fraudulent calls and the verification of legitimate callers. By leveraging a comprehensive risk database, Pindrop's technology helps enterprise call centers and businesses streamline communication, reduce call handling time, and improve customer experience while minimizing fraud losses. With a commitment to unlocking the value of voice interactions, Pindrop is positioned to support both enterprises and consumers in navigating a voice-driven future.

Jumio

Series B in 2012
Jumio is a technology company based in Palo Alto, California, founded by Daniel Mattes and Robert Prigge in 2016. It specializes in remote identity verification using advanced AI, biometrics, machine learning, and automation to combat fraud and financial crime. The Jumio KYX Platform offers services for establishing, maintaining, and reasserting trust throughout the customer lifecycle, from onboarding to transaction monitoring. It has verified over 300 million identities from around the world in real-time web and mobile transactions, serving various sectors such as financial services, digital currency, retail, travel, and online gaming. Jumio's solutions help businesses fight fraud, onboard good customers faster, and meet regulatory compliance requirements including KYC, AML, and GDPR.

Silver Tail Systems

Venture Round in 2011
Silver Tail Systems specializes in predictive analytics designed to detect and prevent fraud and abuse on websites. As business logic abuse becomes increasingly prevalent and difficult to identify, companies face significant financial losses due to various online threats, including hijack attacks and gaming schemes. Silver Tail Systems offers advanced Forensics and Mitigation products that leverage web session intelligence and real-time behavioral analytics to identify suspicious activities. Their innovative approach enables efficient investigation and immediate response to fraudulent events, ensuring that legitimate users remain unaffected while effectively diverting malicious actors.
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