Citi Ventures is the venture capital firm specializing in incubation and seed investments in the Fintech sector. It seeks to invest in startups. The firm seeks to invest in financial services industry and transformational technologies, including those that leverage the power of social media and information analytics with a focus on commerce and payments; security, cybersecurity, and enterprise IT; big data and analytics; machine learning, and financial technology. Within big data and analytics platform, the firm seeks to invest in companies that address the following needs: distributed Big Data infrastructure management; text analytics on massive unstructured data sets; Natural Language Processing interfaces; graph technologies; exploratory analysis and the discovery of hidden insights in complex data structures; security and governance for Big Data and next-generation business intelligence (BI); visualization tools; and marketing technologies. It invests globally. It also prefers to invest in Israel. The firm prefers to invest in companies which are relevant to Citi’s business. It partners with leading companies either directly or through joint ventures to invest in portfolio companies. It makes minority investments and do not require exclusivity, nor do they intend to acquire the portfolio companies. The firm also funds proof-of-concept tests for startups.