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Matt Carbonara

Managing Director, Citi Ventures at Citi

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Matt Carbonara is the Managing Director at Citi Ventures, focusing on venture capital investments in various sectors including AutoTech, MarketingTech, and Cybersecurity. He has successfully invested in companies like Lexion (Series B) and Harness (Series D), showcasing his expertise in identifying and nurturing successful startups in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a background in product management and entrepreneurship, Matt has leveraged his skills to build strategic partnerships and drive business development initiatives, leading to notable investments in innovative companies like Nylas (Series C) and Kustomer (Series C).

Work Experience 

  • Managing Director, Citi Ventures

    2018 - Current

    Head of Citi Ventures Enterprise IT investing practice: cloud, devops, cybersecurity, customer experience, marketing technology, data analytics, machine learning and automation. Investments: Endor Labs - Software Supply Chain Security Platform Lakera - GenAI Security Platform Tracable - API Security Platform DataVolo - Unstructured GenAI Data Management Platform Concentric AI - Data Security Platform Docker - Container Development and Security Platform Cribl - Enterprise Security and IT Ops Data Mgmt Platform Snyk - Application Security Platform Eightfold - Talent Intelligence Platform Deepgram - API enabled Voice AI Platform Forage - HR Recruiting Platform (Acquired by EAB) Harness - Software Delivery Platform Skan - Process Intelligence Nylas - Communications APIs Kenna - Cybersecurity Vulnerability Mgmt (Acquired by Cisco) Trulioo - KYC / Identity Verification

Citigroup is a financial services holding company that provides various financial products and services.

Raised $12,950,000,000.00 from ValueAct Capital and Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.

  • Investor & Board Observer

    2024

Lakera is a real-time GenAI security company that utilizes AI to protect enterprises from LLM vulnerabilities.

Raised $30,000,000.00 from redalpine, Atomico, Dropbox Ventures, Citi Ventures and Youcef Es-skouri.

  • Investor

    2024

Endor Labs is a software supply chain security company that improves application security and manages open-source software dependencies.

Raised $95,000,000.00 from Citi Ventures.

  • Investor

    2024

Traceable is an API security company that helps to mitigate risks and optimize the value derived from their APIs for customers.

Raised $110,000,000.00 from Unusual Ventures, IVP, Sorenson Capital, Citi Ventures and Geodesic Capital.

  • Advisor UNC Chapel Hill School of Data Science and Society (SDSS)

    2023

  • Investor

    2022

Docker’s platform helps millions of developers efficiently and collaboratively build, share, and run applications.

Raised $435,855,439.00 from Citi Ventures, Atlassian Ventures, Benchmark, Vertex Ventures US, Four Rivers Group, Insight Partners, TeleSoft Partners, Vertex Ventures, FJ Labs and Bain Capital Ventures.

  • Investor

    2021

Cribl is a software company that designs a unified data management platform for exploring, collecting, processing, and accessing data.

Raised $721,208,560.00 from IVP, Google Ventures, CapitalG, GIC and CRV.

  • Investor

    2021

Snyk is a cloud native application security provider that enables millions of developers to build software securely.

Raised $1,195,500,000.00 from ServiceNow.

  • Investor

    2021

Eightfold AI provides a complete AI platform for talent management to help companies find, recruit, and retain workers.

Raised $396,750,000.00 from Foundation Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, IVP, SoftBank Vision Fund, General Catalyst and Capital One Ventures.

  • Investor

    2021

Harness is a Continuous Delivery-as-a-Service platform for engineering and DevOps teams to release applications into production.

Raised $575,000,000.00 from Hercules Capital and Silicon Valley Bank.

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