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2011
2022
Citi Ventures is Citi's Strategic Investing and Innovation group. Reporting to Citi's CFO, Arvind leads all day-to-day investing and incubation activities across several areas of Fintech, Digital Assets and Blockchain, PropTech, Cybersecurity, Enterprise infrastructure and apps.
2011 - 2022
I lead Citi's Corporate Venture Capital group. As a founding member and leader, I have been responsible for the overall strategy and execution of our venture program, and growing to a team of ~15 investors in multiple geographies. At Citi Ventures, we have invested in over 100 companies, invest in multiple geographies, and have partnered with great entrepreneurs to help them scale their business. Some of the companies we partnered with include: Square, DocuSign, Honey, Plaid, Betterment, Jet.com, DataRobot, Netskope, Tanium, Pindrop, Digit, BlueVine, and many others. Additionally, in 2020, I helped launch and co-lead the Citi Impact Fund to back entrepreneurs in Sustainability, Workforce Development, Financial Inclusion and Social Infrastructure. This program also has a mandate to back women and minority entrepreneurs, folks who traditionally have had a hard time accessing venture capital.
2001 - 2010
2001 - 2010
Menlo Ventures is a top-tier venture capital firm on Sand Hill Road founded in 1976. At Menlo, I was one of nine General Partners (until 2010), and served as an investor, board member and advisor to a range of technology startups, including: - Cavium Networks (CAVM) - Kazeon (acq by EMC) - Solidcore (acq by McAfee) - Vhayu Technologies (acq by Thomson Reuters) - Intelligent Results (acq by First Data) - Yume (YUME)
1995 - 1999
1997 - 1999
Mobile Pentium II program lead in the Mobile Products Group. In this role, I coordinated across a variety of functions across Intel, including Product Marketing, Engineering, and Manufacturing to enable successful definition, design and launch of new microprocessors for the laptop market.
1995 - 1997
I was a circuit designer on the Mobile Pentium design team. This team worked on defining and designing low power microprocessors for laptops.