Travis Skelly, senior vice-president of Citi Ventures, brought plenty of experience to his role at the US-listed bank’s corporate venturing unit when he joined two years ago.
Skelly had previously helped launch an early-stage fintech focused venture capital fund, FinTech Collective, and over two and half years he made 20 investments, created a weekly newsletter read by thousands and developed a network.
Luis Valdich, managing director at Citi Ventures in New York and London, said: “As the Citi Ventures venture investing lead in New York and Europe, Travis has helped us bring and develop talent to grow the team, source and invest in top startups, get our seed program off the ground, strengthen our business and VC engagement, and support our portfolio companies across the world.
“Since joining the team two years ago, Travis has shown incredible determination in leveraging Citi’s global market position to bring much more than just capital to any investment opportunity.
“He has been critical to the success of many of our investments and several commercialisations, including Clarity Money, which is developing a personal financial mobile app and for which Travis helped secure an affiliate marketing agreement with Citi Cards; HighRadius and Scalefactor; PPRO and Contguard, which are facilitating a more seamless global economy through new alternative payment methods and logistics data; and Betterment, SmartAsset, and Octane Lending, which are developing innovative new wealth management and point of sale lending products and services for consumers, financial advisers, and lenders.”
