Luis Valdich
Investor at Citi Ventures
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Director, Citi Ventures
2015 - 2025
Luis was responsible for CV investing activities in fintech broadly defined, making the following investments: Arch, alt. invest ops Array, embed. credit ratings Belvo, open finance LA Blackcart, e-commerce tools Bridge-Foro, bus. lending mktplc Cart.com, unified commerce/logistics Cashforce, cashflow forecasting SW (M&A/TIS) Clara, spend mgmt/cards LA Clarity Money, personal finance app (M&A/Goldman) Contguard, shipping monitoring/BI (M&A/Ewave) Doconomy, data-carbon footprint DriveWealth, embed. retail investing/trading Even Financial, lead gen (M&A/MoneyLion) Feedzai, fin crime risk ops SW Fidel API, card-linking API (M&A/Enigmatic) Finix, full stack pymt process. Flex, rent finance/credit bldg Forter, e-commerce fraud SW Forto, digital freight forwarder Freebird, flight disruption insur. (M&A/CapitalOne) GoHenry, kiddie card (M&A/Acorns) HighRadius, acct. rec. SW HoneyBook, freelancers vertical SaaS/payments iCapital, alt. invest. access IVIX, tax evasion detection software Jump, GenAI advisor notetaking Justt, chargebacks software Kasa, tech-enabled apart-hotel manager Kyte, car rental delivery Loft, real estate platform BR Norm.ai, Gen AI mktg compliance Octane, powersports lender/mktpl OneText, e-commerce tools PayJoy, EM smartphone lender Point.me, travel awards PPRO, local payments Proxymity, shareholder coms. Pylon, embedded mortgage Ramp, spend mgmt/cards/bill pymt Reonomy, Proptech data/analytics: CRE (M&A/Altus) Scalefactor, bookkeping automation software Second Measure, card spend data (M&A/Bloomberg) Setpoint, debt facility operating syst. Settle, CPG lender/operating system SmartAsset, wealth lead gen/CRM Socure, KYC/identity verificat. Soldo, EU/UK spend mgmt/cards Splash, lending lead gen/platform TRM Labs, crypto fin crime fight Tuum, core bkg tech Unlimited, HF returns replicat. Vega, alts ops autom. Volante, pymts moderniz. Wealth.com, estate planning Wildfire, embedded loyalty/offers Writer, full stack GenAI Xalts, digital assets solut.
Managing Director, Founder/Global Head of Strategic Investments
2008 - 2015
Responsible for investing in companies with strategic relevance to JPMorgan Chase's businesses and functions firmwide. Co-invested both with strategic investors, venture capital firms, and growth equity firms. ~30 investments including: ->7 that went public: -Palantir -Tradeweb -Block/Square -Markit (now part of S&P) -BATS (now part of CBOE) -AirLease Corp -Solid ->14 that were acquired including following notable exits: -LCH.Clearnet (by LSEG over series of transactions, with latest (9/24) at €5.3bn valuation) -LME (£1.4bn, by Hong Kong Exchange) -Acadiasoft ($0.7bn, by LSEG) -Source ETF (£0.4bn, by Invesco) -Various others including clearXchange to Early Warning Services (to form Zelle); Chi-X Global (to Nasdaq and JC Flowers); Yieldbroker (to Tradeweb); Luminex (to LevelATS); and Clarient (to Thompson Reuters) ->4 unicorns including -Avant -Pico Quantitative Trading -Symphony Communications
J.P. Morgan Ventures Energy Corporation provides commodity risk management solutions in both the physical .
Consultant, Corporate Finance & Strategy / Banking & TMT Practice
2004 - 2008
Advising clients in financial services and technology on strategic initiatives typically involving one or more inorganic moves, whether acquiring or divesting businesses or making partnerships or alliances
McKinsey Growth Tech serves leading growth stage tech players, venture capital, and growth private equity
Principal
2000 - 2004
Sourcing and executing venture capital investments and monitoring portfolio companies
Education
MBA
1998 - 2000