Blaze O'byrne
Senior Vice President, Venture Investing at Citi
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Partner at Citi Ventures
2025 - Current
Senior Vice President, Citi Ventures
2022 - 2025
Vice President, Citi Ventures
2020 - 2021
Lead Series-A to Series-D investments in Gen AI applications relevant to financial services, cybersecurity, developer tools, and cloud infrastructure. Investments: Deepgram, Eightfold, Notarize, InvestCloud, Forage, Docker, Harness, TRM Labs, Traceable, Island, Lakera, Poolside. Sourced: Notarize, Deepgram, BlackCart, Forage, Lakera, Poolside.
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
2024
Island is a cybersecurity company that develops an enterprise browser to enhance security and productivity within corporate environments.
Raised $560,000,000.00 from Coatue, Citi Ventures and Sequoia Capital.
Investor
2024
Poolside is an artificial intelligence platform that offers foundation concepts and infrastructure to write software codes.
Raised $626,000,000.00 from eBay Ventures, PremjiInvest, Motier Ventures, Schroders Capital, BAM Elevate, Inovia Capital, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, HSBC Ventures and Adams Street Partners.
Investor
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
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.
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
2022
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.
Investor
2021
TRM Labs is a software company that offers blockchain, transaction monitoring, and analytics to help financial institutions and governments.
Raised $149,900,000.00 from DRW Venture Capital, Alumni Ventures, Thoma Bravo, Citi Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Brevan Howard Asset Management, American Express Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Pario Ventures and Marshall Wace.
Board Observer
2021
Proof is an identity-assured transaction management platform that verifies identities and secures digital transactions.
Raised $213,337,968.00 from Moderne Ventures.
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.