Citi

Citigroup Inc. is a global diversified financial services holding company headquartered in New York, offering a wide range of financial products and services to consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions across multiple regions, including North America, Latin America, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The company operates through two main segments: Global Consumer Banking (GCB) and Institutional Clients Group (ICG). The GCB segment provides traditional banking services such as retail banking, commercial banking, and credit card services to individual customers. In contrast, the ICG segment focuses on wholesale banking products and services, catering to corporate, institutional, public sector, and high-net-worth clients with offerings that include investment banking, corporate lending, cash management, and securities services. Founded in 1812, Citigroup has established a significant global presence, operating numerous branches primarily in the United States, Mexico, and Asia.

Francisco Abularach

Managing Director, Global Co-Head Infrastructure

Sheetal Anand

Senior Vice President, Investment Officer, US Pension Investments

Pantelis Apessos

Head of United States Pension Investments and Chief Investment Officer

Peter Arnold

Managing Director, Global Head of IFD, London

Catherine Cai

Managing Director, Chairman And Head Of China Investment banking

Paulo Caldeira

Managing Director

Thomas Callagee

Investment Analyst, Assistant Vice President, U.S. Pension Investments

Lisa Chiu

Vice President

Michael Corbat

Chief Executive Officer

Howie Friedman

Senior Vice President, U.S. Pension Investments

John Gerspach

Chief Financial Officer

Ken Gilooley

Senior Vice President of Citigroup Pension Operations

Todd Guenther

Managing Director

Rachel Howick

EMEA Transfer Agency Product Manager

Pramit Jhaveri

Chief Executive Officer

Bob Khanna

Managing Director and Regional Head

Mark Mason

Chief Financial Officer

Matt Miorelli

Senior Vice President, U.S. Pension Investments

Emma Phillips

Vice President

Jorge Ramos

Managing Director- EMEA Head of Infrastructure

Leonardo Rodriguez

Director and Senior Investment Officer

Jean Roma

Director of Retirement Plans

Emaad Sami

Vice President

Birgit Schweigert

Director, Co-Head of Citi Private Funds Group

Orcun Unlu

Director, Co-Head of Citi Private Funds Group

Past deals in FinTech

Built Technologies

Venture Round in 2023
Built Technologies, Inc. is a provider of cloud-based construction loan administration and draw management software designed to enhance risk management, productivity, and customer experience in the construction lending sector. The platform offers features such as file management, custom draw workflows, and integration capabilities, allowing lenders, borrowers, builders, developers, consultants, and inspectors to collaborate effectively. By digitizing the draw management process, Built reduces construction loan risks, increases loan profitability, and simplifies compliance for a diverse range of clients, including small, regional, and national lenders across the United States. Established in 2014 and headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, the company was previously known as DataFi, LLC before rebranding in 2015.

Illuminate Financial

Venture Round in 2022
Illuminate Financial Management LLP is a venture capital firm established in 2014 and headquartered in London, United Kingdom, with an additional office in New York. The firm specializes in investments within the financial technology sector, focusing on companies that address challenges in financial services, particularly in compliance, regulation, and connectivity. Illuminate Financial targets early-stage investments, including Series A and seed financing, typically committing between $0.25 million and $3 million for a stake of 5% to 20% in its portfolio companies. While the firm invests globally, it places a significant emphasis on opportunities within the United Kingdom, Europe, and the United States. With deep domain expertise and a robust industry network, Illuminate Financial serves as a trusted partner, guiding its portfolio companies through the complexities of their early development phases.

LiquidX

Corporate Round in 2022
LiquidX Inc. operates an electronic marketplace focused on trade finance assets, facilitating transactions among a diverse range of participants, including corporations, banks, asset managers, hedge funds, and insurers. Established in 2015 and headquartered in New York with additional offices in London and Singapore, LiquidX provides a transparent platform that enables users to trade risk and invest in financial instruments such as receivables, payables, and letters of credit. The company's technology platform enhances the origination, financing, and distribution of trade finance assets, allowing clients to access capital markets effectively. With a broad seller base that includes credits from major global companies and a buyer base comprising large banks and asset managers, LiquidX aims to deliver optimal price execution and streamline working capital solutions.

Konfio

Debt Financing in 2022
Konfio is a financial technology company based in Mexico City that focuses on providing online financial solutions for micro entrepreneurs and small to mid-sized enterprises. Founded in 2013, it offers a range of services including fixed-rate loans, short-term business credits, working capital loans, and online payment solutions. Additionally, Konfio provides a corporate credit card, a loyalty program, and business productivity software tools to enhance growth and operational efficiency. The company aims to support the financial needs of its clients through innovative digital banking solutions and has established itself as a key player in the Mexican fintech landscape.

MQube

Series A in 2022
MQube is a fintech company operating in the mortgage industry. Driven by data, artificial intelligence and deep machine learning, MQube have developed a platform that delivers mortgages with certainty and control. MQube can produce a legally binding mortgage offer in hours (subject to valuation), weeks quicker than market norms, reducing inefficiencies and offering customers better outcomes.

Crowdz

Convertible Note in 2022
Crowdz provides invoice-financing opportunities to companies in global supply chains—a $9 trillion market that SMEs traditionally have been excluded from. The need for such financing is greater than ever before. Some 93% of all supply-chain participants are SMEs, and half of these suffer cashflow shortages as they wait for 90 to 120 days or more to be paid. Crowdz’s global invoice auction solves this problem by directing competitive, low-cost financing to SMEs while offering high returns to funders seeking better investments.

FundGuard

Series B in 2022
FundGuard Inc. develops and operates artificial intelligence powered and cloud based investment funds operating system platform. It operates FundGuard, a platform that helps asset and fund managers to administer investments across mutual funds, ETFs, hedge funds, insurance, and pension. The company’s FundGuard is a SAAS platform to automatically resolve exceptions, detect unstructured financial anomalies, identify potential frauds, and recommend ways to improve operational KPIs. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Palo Alto, California with an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Nubank

Post in 2022
Nubank issues, administrate, processes, and transfers payments related to post-paid credit cards and equity investment in other entities. It serves clients in Brazil. The company launched its proprietary loyalty rewards program ("Nubank Rewards"), as well as a digital account ("NuConta") that is already used by more than 17 million people. In Cristina Junqueira, David Velez, and Edward Wible founded EO2 Solucoes de Pagamento on May 6, 2013 that became Nubank in on June 25, 2013. It has its headquarters in São Paulo in Brazil.

TransFICC

Venture Round in 2022
TransFICC Limited is an e-trading technology company based in London, specializing in low-latency connectivity solutions for the fixed income and derivatives markets. Founded in 2016, the firm addresses the issue of fragmentation within these markets by offering a unified application programming interface (API) that consolidates multiple execution venue APIs into a single connection. This allows clients, including banks and asset managers, to connect seamlessly while TransFICC manages the connectivity with electronic trading venues. The company's technology ensures that price updates are processed rapidly, helping clients to compete effectively against high-frequency trading firms. TransFICC also provides precise microsecond timestamps for price and order messages, which create an audit trail that supports best execution practices. By simplifying the integration process when execution venues update their APIs, TransFICC facilitates easier upgrades compared to traditional enterprise systems, thereby enhancing market access for its clients.

Capitolis

Series D in 2022
Capitolis is a technology provider addressing capital market constraints in equities and foreign exchange. It connects capital with collaborative solutions to clients all over the world. The company connects market participants and transforms the efficiency frontiers of their businesses. It partners with clients to address their challenges and creatively build new opportunities around under-utilized capital. Capitolis was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in New York.

SIMON

Corporate Round in 2022
SIMON Markets LLC develops an online distribution platform for financial professionals that focuses on structured investments. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.

Sharegain

Series B in 2022
Sharegain Ltd. is a fintech company based in London that operates a securities lending platform tailored for pension funds, insurance companies, and other asset managers. Founded in 2015, Sharegain aims to transform the securities lending market by enabling financial institutions to unlock additional income from assets they or their clients already possess. The platform provides an automated solution that allows private banks, asset managers, fund managers, and online brokers to lend their stocks, bonds, and ETFs, thereby democratizing access to the $2.5 trillion securities lending industry. Through its innovative approach, Sharegain helps investors discover the hidden value within their portfolios and generate extra revenue.

T-REX

Series C in 2022
Enterprise Fintech Platform: T-REX’s mission is to make complex capital markets more liquid through enhanced transparency and efficiency. In order to facilitate growth in complex asset classes, T-REX aims to continuously build effective market-relevant financial infrastructure that allows complex markets to be more robust through unprecedented transparency. T-REX is the financial and risk analytics platform for complex asset classes: increasing standardization, efficiency, and transparency. Through its enterprise SaaS platform, T-REX unlocks hundreds of billions of dollars currently seeking investment through modules that combine analysis across assets, loans, bonds, and other capital structures. Before T-REX, the value of the assets was opaque, non-standard, and manually evaluated one asset at a time. With T-REX, industry participants can now efficiently invest in, securitize, and manage portfolios of assets with complete transparency.

TailorMed

Venture Round in 2021
TailorMed Medical Ltd. is a health technology company that specializes in financial navigation systems designed to assist patients and healthcare providers in managing medical expenses. Founded in 2017 and based in Tel Aviv, Israel, TailorMed offers a comprehensive platform that automates financial processes, identifies patients at financial risk, and connects them with tailored funding opportunities. Its key products include TailorMed Financial Navigation, which streamlines financial operations for healthcare centers; TailorMed Financial Insights, a reporting dashboard that tracks key performance indicators; and TailorMed Pharmacy, which simplifies the ordering and billing of medications based on individual treatment plans. By leveraging advanced algorithms and a robust data set, TailorMed aims to reduce patient financial toxicity and improve efficiencies throughout the treatment lifecycle.

Contour

Series A in 2021
Contour is building the world’s open trade finance network. By focusing on collaboration and leveraging new technologies we are dissolving the barriers to seamless trade. Our networks of banks, corporates, services and partnerships enable the instant flow of trusted data across the world’s trade routes and current fragmented ecosystems.

BondbloX

Series A in 2021
BondEvalue is a Singapore based Fintech company that focuses on Asian bond markets. Unlike equities which have already been digitally disrupted, bonds have remained unchanged for decades, with private bank clients unable to access live prices. We envision using our deep domain expertize to level the playing field for them via the simplicity and convenience of an App.

Capitolis

Series C in 2021
Capitolis is a technology provider addressing capital market constraints in equities and foreign exchange. It connects capital with collaborative solutions to clients all over the world. The company connects market participants and transforms the efficiency frontiers of their businesses. It partners with clients to address their challenges and creatively build new opportunities around under-utilized capital. Capitolis was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in New York.

Genesis Global

Series B in 2021
GENESIS Global was originally started by a team of industry leaders in the Global Financial Markets space with extensive experience in front to back trading technologies across multiple asset classes and business lines. The members of their management and advisory team have held senior global management roles at investment banks around the world and at trading technology software vendors. Extensive experience with global financial technology vendors. They have a simple strategy, to be a global FinTech company providing best in class solutions and services which are in line with their client’s needs, goals and expectations. They have a disruptive framework technology and business model to achieve this strategy.

HQLAX

Series B in 2021
HQLAᵡ is a financial technology innovation firm that leverages R3’s distributed ledger technology, Corda, to provide liquidity management and collateral management solutions for institutional clients in the global securities financing markets. HQLAᵡ and Deutsche Börse Group formed a strategic partnership for the creation of a joint operating model that provides market participants with improved collateral mobility across a fragmented securities settlement eco-system.

Altro (fka Perch)

Seed Round in 2020
Perch Credit (also known as Perch), is a fin-tech mobile app that allows users to take common recurring expenses, such as their subscriptions & rent, and turn these into creditworthy data points. Perch is currrently live on iOS and plans to be on Android in the coming months. Perch recently graduated YC (S20) and closed 2.5M in their most recent round.

4G Capital

Debt Financing in 2020
4G Capital, founded in 2013 and based in Nairobi, Kenya, specializes in providing instant access to credit for small businesses in Africa, particularly targeting the informal market. The company offers unsecured debt funding and financial literacy training tailored for micro-enterprises, including micro-business owners, rural traders, and female entrepreneurs. With a focus on enhancing sustainable growth, 4G Capital employs proprietary machine learning technology to gain insights into traditionally underserved sectors, allowing them to design scalable credit products that align with their clients’ financial circumstances. Clients can access loans via mobile money in under two minutes, facilitating quick and efficient funding. The company addresses the significant finance gap faced by micro and small enterprises in Africa, which often struggle to secure credit due to stringent collateral requirements. 4G Capital has achieved impressive metrics, including a collection rate exceeding 94% and a notable increase in client revenues. With operations in Kenya and Uganda, 4G Capital is expanding its reach across the continent, aiming to positively impact over 1 million people while fostering financial literacy and business success.

AccessFintech

Series B in 2020
Access Fintech is an innovative risk management service for banks and buyside firms. The service helps firms track the trade lifecycle and get a true sense of prioritized risk, across an increasing number of systems. Access FinTech brings together fintech providers and in-house technology, orchestrating the interaction of the distributed providers and creating a single visual display of the risk of financial transactions in a global sharable view.

Genesis Global

Corporate Round in 2020
GENESIS Global was originally started by a team of industry leaders in the Global Financial Markets space with extensive experience in front to back trading technologies across multiple asset classes and business lines. The members of their management and advisory team have held senior global management roles at investment banks around the world and at trading technology software vendors. Extensive experience with global financial technology vendors. They have a simple strategy, to be a global FinTech company providing best in class solutions and services which are in line with their client’s needs, goals and expectations. They have a disruptive framework technology and business model to achieve this strategy.

Capitolis

Venture Round in 2020
Capitolis is a technology provider addressing capital market constraints in equities and foreign exchange. It connects capital with collaborative solutions to clients all over the world. The company connects market participants and transforms the efficiency frontiers of their businesses. It partners with clients to address their challenges and creatively build new opportunities around under-utilized capital. Capitolis was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in New York.

Spark Systems

Series B in 2020
Spark Systems is an exciting new Fin-Tech startup funded by industry veterans, we are the first high tech solution provider for institutional forex trading that is originated in Asia. We aim to build world class FX trading platform to serve a growing Asia financial hub. As early member of the firm you will be involved from the very beginning of building something truly special, and will be duly rewarded with a fast-track career.

TransFICC

Series A in 2020
TransFICC Limited is an e-trading technology company based in London, specializing in low-latency connectivity solutions for the fixed income and derivatives markets. Founded in 2016, the firm addresses the issue of fragmentation within these markets by offering a unified application programming interface (API) that consolidates multiple execution venue APIs into a single connection. This allows clients, including banks and asset managers, to connect seamlessly while TransFICC manages the connectivity with electronic trading venues. The company's technology ensures that price updates are processed rapidly, helping clients to compete effectively against high-frequency trading firms. TransFICC also provides precise microsecond timestamps for price and order messages, which create an audit trail that supports best execution practices. By simplifying the integration process when execution venues update their APIs, TransFICC facilitates easier upgrades compared to traditional enterprise systems, thereby enhancing market access for its clients.

Komgo

Venture Round in 2020
komgo SA operates a distributed ledger technology platform for commodity transactions. The platform digitalizes the trade and commodities finance sector. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Geneva, Switzerland.

Digital Asset

Series C in 2019
Digital Asset develops distributed ledger technology intended to build distributed, encrypted straight through processing tools. Its technology offer tools for digital ledgers to track and settle digital and mainstream financial assets in a cryptographically secure environment, enabling the financial services industry to improve their efficiency, security, compliance and settlement speed.

DirectBooks

Seed Round in 2019
Addressing inefficiencies in the marketplace across multiple communication channels, DirectBooks will simplify the primary issuance process through the use of structured data and streamlined communications. The new service will increase the efficiency and accuracy of deal workflow information among market participants by disseminating it through a robust communication platform that can be integrated into underwriter and investor systems to better connect underwriters and their clients.

T-REX

Corporate Round in 2019
Enterprise Fintech Platform: T-REX’s mission is to make complex capital markets more liquid through enhanced transparency and efficiency. In order to facilitate growth in complex asset classes, T-REX aims to continuously build effective market-relevant financial infrastructure that allows complex markets to be more robust through unprecedented transparency. T-REX is the financial and risk analytics platform for complex asset classes: increasing standardization, efficiency, and transparency. Through its enterprise SaaS platform, T-REX unlocks hundreds of billions of dollars currently seeking investment through modules that combine analysis across assets, loans, bonds, and other capital structures. Before T-REX, the value of the assets was opaque, non-standard, and manually evaluated one asset at a time. With T-REX, industry participants can now efficiently invest in, securitize, and manage portfolios of assets with complete transparency.

T-REX

Series C in 2019
Enterprise Fintech Platform: T-REX’s mission is to make complex capital markets more liquid through enhanced transparency and efficiency. In order to facilitate growth in complex asset classes, T-REX aims to continuously build effective market-relevant financial infrastructure that allows complex markets to be more robust through unprecedented transparency. T-REX is the financial and risk analytics platform for complex asset classes: increasing standardization, efficiency, and transparency. Through its enterprise SaaS platform, T-REX unlocks hundreds of billions of dollars currently seeking investment through modules that combine analysis across assets, loans, bonds, and other capital structures. Before T-REX, the value of the assets was opaque, non-standard, and manually evaluated one asset at a time. With T-REX, industry participants can now efficiently invest in, securitize, and manage portfolios of assets with complete transparency.

Better.com

Series C in 2019
Better Holdco, Inc. is a digital mortgage lending company based in New York that offers a streamlined online platform for residential clients in multiple states across the U.S. Founded in 2016, Better.com focuses on providing a transparent and efficient home-financing experience by eliminating commissions, fees, and traditional branch appointments. The company offers a variety of mortgage options, including fixed and adjustable rates for conventional and jumbo loans, as well as refinancing services. In addition to mortgage lending, Better.com features a digital marketplace that provides competitive quotes from various insurance providers and connects clients with leading real estate agents. Since its inception, Better.com has facilitated $7.9 billion in home loans and $1 billion in insurance, aiming to democratize access to home financing.

Better.com

Series C in 2019
Better Holdco, Inc. is a digital mortgage lending company based in New York that offers a streamlined online platform for residential clients in multiple states across the U.S. Founded in 2016, Better.com focuses on providing a transparent and efficient home-financing experience by eliminating commissions, fees, and traditional branch appointments. The company offers a variety of mortgage options, including fixed and adjustable rates for conventional and jumbo loans, as well as refinancing services. In addition to mortgage lending, Better.com features a digital marketplace that provides competitive quotes from various insurance providers and connects clients with leading real estate agents. Since its inception, Better.com has facilitated $7.9 billion in home loans and $1 billion in insurance, aiming to democratize access to home financing.

AccessFintech

Series A in 2018
Access Fintech is an innovative risk management service for banks and buyside firms. The service helps firms track the trade lifecycle and get a true sense of prioritized risk, across an increasing number of systems. Access FinTech brings together fintech providers and in-house technology, orchestrating the interaction of the distributed providers and creating a single visual display of the risk of financial transactions in a global sharable view.

TransFICC

Corporate Round in 2018
TransFICC Limited is an e-trading technology company based in London, specializing in low-latency connectivity solutions for the fixed income and derivatives markets. Founded in 2016, the firm addresses the issue of fragmentation within these markets by offering a unified application programming interface (API) that consolidates multiple execution venue APIs into a single connection. This allows clients, including banks and asset managers, to connect seamlessly while TransFICC manages the connectivity with electronic trading venues. The company's technology ensures that price updates are processed rapidly, helping clients to compete effectively against high-frequency trading firms. TransFICC also provides precise microsecond timestamps for price and order messages, which create an audit trail that supports best execution practices. By simplifying the integration process when execution venues update their APIs, TransFICC facilitates easier upgrades compared to traditional enterprise systems, thereby enhancing market access for its clients.

Pagaya

Debt Financing in 2018
Pagaya Investments (Pagaya) is a financial technology company reshaping the asset management space using machine learning and big data analytics to manage institutional money. With a focus on fixed income and alternative credit, Pagaya offers a variety of discretionary funds to institutional investors including pension funds, insurance companies, and banks. Pagaya’s unique technology platform — Pagaya Pulse — runs on a suite of artificial intelligence technologies and state-of-the-art algorithms to deliver a consistently high and scalable performance edge. The company was founded in 2016 by seasoned finance and technology professionals with offices in New York and Tel Aviv.

Kensho

Series B in 2017
Kensho Technologies, Inc. provides analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data visualization systems to global banks and investment institutions. It develops Kensho Financial Analytics Software that deploys scalable analytics systems across the commercial institutions. It also offers artificial intelligence (AI) software called Kensho Applied Mind. The company also operates a national security division called Koto. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It has additional offices in New York, New York; McLean, Virginia; and Pacific Palisades, California. As of April 8, 2018, Kensho Technologies, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of S&P Global Inc.

Cobalt

Seed Round in 2016
Cobalt delivers a private peer-to-peer network that significantly reduces post-trade cost and risk for financial market participants. It aims to use the technology behind bitcoin to simplify foreign exchange trading. The company also aims to create a single, shared view of each transaction by using blockchain technology, which uses complex cryptography to allow people to safely view and edit shared ledgers. The technology was first developed to underpin cryptocurrency bitcoin, doing away with the need for a central bank. Cobalt was founded in 2015 by Andy Coyne and Adrian Patten. It is headquartered in London, England.

Selerity

Series C in 2016
Selerity is a financial technology company that provides real-time event data solutions for the financial services industry. They deliver high-quality, personalized content that is engaging and actionable optimized for business professionals in specific verticals such as finance. Using Selerity, enterprise messaging platforms, publishers, research & banking portals, and e-brokers can rapidly incorporate high-quality 3rd party and proprietary content personalized to their users’ workflow and interests. The result is higher engagement, traffic, and customer satisfaction. Selerity's clients range from sophisticated asset management firms and banks on Wall Street to innovative media and technology companies serving retail investors. The company's flagship product, Selerity Context, offers contextual search solutions for the capital markets and digital wealth industries, while the Company's Private Context Engine (PCE) analyzes digital communications to power workflow automation for finance professionals.

Internet Financial Network

Venture Round in 2000
Internet Financial Network develops personalized information products and tools for Internet users and creates.