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Vibhor Rastogi

Global Head of AI investments, Citi Ventures. $6B+ in Portfolio exits - IIT Kanpur and Chicago Booth alum

Santa Clara, California

Overview 

Vibhor Rastogi is the Global Head of AI investments at Citi Ventures, overseeing a portfolio with $6B+ in exits. He is an alumnus of IIT Kanpur and Chicago Booth, with a career highlighted by successful investments in companies like Datavolo and InfluxData. Rastogi's role at Citi Ventures involves leading high-performing teams and making strategic investments in AI and tech startups, contributing to significant portfolio exits and demonstrating expertise in corporate development and venture capital.

Work Experience 

  • Global Head, AI/ML/Data Investing at Citi Ventures

    2021 - Current

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

    2021

    Matillion makes the world's data useful with an easy-to-use, cloud-native data integration and transformation platform. Optimized for modern enterprise data teams, only Matillion is built on native integrations to cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, Delta Lake on Databricks, Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, and Microsoft Azure Synapse to enable new levels of efficiency and productivity across any organization.

  • Investor

    2021

    DataRobot is the AI Cloud leader, delivering a unified platform for all users, all data types, and all environments to accelerate delivery of AI to production. Trusted by global customers across industries and verticals, including a third of the Fortune 50, delivering over a trillion predictions for leading companies globally.

DataRobot provides AI technology and ROI enablement services to global enterprises.

Raised $1,050,598,000.00 from Salesforce Ventures, Ballistic Ventures, Page One Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures, Altimeter Capital, ServiceNow Ventures, Counterpoint Global, Franklin Templeton, Tiger Global Management and J17 Capital.

  • Board Observer

    2021

    Immuta is the market leader in cloud data access control, providing data engineering and operations teams one universal platform to control access to analytical data sets in the cloud. Only Immuta can automate access control for any data, on any cloud service, across all compute infrastructure. Data-driven organizations around the world rely on Immuta to speed time to data, safely share more data with more users, and mitigate the risk of data leaks and breaches. Founded in 2015, Immuta is headquartered in Boston, MA. Learn more at www.immuta.com

The Immuta Data Security Platform provides sensitive data discovery, security and access control, and data activity monitoring.

Raised $258,200,000.00 from Databricks Ventures, ServiceNow, Wipro Ventures, Ten Eleven Ventures, March Capital, Snowflake Ventures, International Airlines Group (IAG), StepStone Group, Dell Technologies Capital and DFJ Growth.

  • Board Observer

    2021

    Kinetica is a real-time analytics database for the next generation of IoT. Kinetica helps many of the world’s largest companies drive outcomes from IoT data, including including Citibank, Liberty Mutual, Ford, Softbank, NORAD, Kaiser Permanente, and T-Mobile, among others. Kinetica has a rich partner ecosystem, including Dell, HP, IBM, NVIDIA, and Oracle, and is privately held, backed by leading global venture capital firms Canvas Ventures, Citi Ventures, GreatPoint Ventures, and Meritech Capital Partners

Kinetica is a software development.

Raised $77,394,736.00 from Meritech Capital Partners, Citi Ventures, Canvas Ventures and GreatPoint Ventures.

  • Board Observer

    2022

    Concentric’s data security solution delivers autonomous protection across heterogonous hybrid data environments.

  • Investor

    2021

    Styra enables enterprises to define, enforce and monitor policy across their cloud-native environments. With a combination of open source (Open Policy Agent) and commercial solutions (Declarative Authorization Service), Styra provides security, operations and compliance guardrails to protect applications, as well as the infrastructure they run on. Styra policy-as-code solutions lets developers, DevOps and security teams mitigate risks, reduce human error and accelerate application development. Learn more at styra.com

Styra offers a platform that allows companies to enforce and monitor authorization policies across cloud-native applications.

Raised $54,000,000.00 from Accel, A.Capital Ventures, Cisco Investments, Battery Ventures, Capital One Ventures, Unusual Ventures and Citi Ventures.

  • General Partner

    2017 - 2021

    SymphonyAI group acquires and drives growth strategy for leading business-to-business AI companies. Our mission is to transform the enterprise with a new generation of AI solutions. SymphonyAI Group companies provide advanced AI solutions to enable the next phase of business transformation. SymphonyAI Group companies are delivering substantial economic value to the retail, CPG, healthcare, life sciences, industrial, media, entertainment, banking, and financial services sectors.

SymphonyAI is an enterprise AI company focused on delivering AI solutions for vertical sectors

  • Board Member

    2020 - 2021

    TeraRecon is the leader in medical advanced visualization and artificial intelligence solutions. Their flagship product, Intuition, is the 2020 KLAS category leader for advanced visualization. Recently acquired by SymphonyAI Group, TeraRecon is one of seven portfolio companies and is strategically focused on AI-driven innovation in healthcare. The company continues to innovate ahead of customer demand and has most recently developed sophisticated healthcare-focused artificial intelligence platform solutions unlike any in the world today. As a company with a 20-year history of innovation. TeraRecon operates as an independent portfolio company in the SymphonyAI Group with world headquarters in Durham, NC, and major offices in Frankfurt, Germany; Tokyo, Japan; Acton, MA, and Freemont, CA.

  • Investor

    2019 - 2021

    AyasdiAI is a SymphonyAI portfolio company. AyasdiAI is the leader in the design, development, and deployment of enterprise-grade intelligent applications. These applications combine state-of-the-art unsupervised learning, superior prediction, industry-leading explainability (called justification) and intuitive, context-specific user-experiences. Flagship applications include Intelligent Segmentation and its sister application Change in Behavior analytics for financial crimes, Clinical Variation Management for healthcare and Program Performance for the government sector. These applications are responsible for many of the operational deployments of artificial intelligence including HSBC, Reliance Jio, Standard Chartered, Intermountain, Flagler and others. Developed by Stanford computational mathematicians, Ayasdi’s approach combines machine learning algorithms, abundant compute power and topological summaries to revolutionize the process for converting data into actionable business value.

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