Pitch Practice w/ fnInvestor Matt Carbonara (Citi Ventures) 1/28/2020

Watch, Pitch, Learn: Join fnInvestor Matt Carbonara, Managing Director at Citi Ventures, for a virtual pitch practice.

Participants will pitch for 3 minutes and receive 2 minutes of feedback from our guest investor. You also have the option to simply listen in and learn from other founder's pitches.

Five founders will be selected to pitch based on the investor's criteria a week before the Pitch Practice. Citi Ventures invests in five key areas specific to the Financial Services ecosystem: FinTech, Data Analytics & ML, Commerce & Payments, Security & Enterprise IT, Customer Experience & Marketing.

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Pitchers consent to their pitch being recorded and shared internally within FN.

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Agenda:

• 09:30 - 09:40 || General FN Announcements
• 09:40 - 09:45 || Introduction of Investor
• 09:45 - 10:15 || Pitch Feedback Session
• 10:15 - 10:30 || Q&A

Investment Criteria

• Invests in: Series A and beyond
• Sectors: CyberSecurity, Cloud, DevOps, Data / ML / AI, Intelligent Enterprise / Automation, Customer Experience / Marketing
• Investment Location: US, Israel
• Investment Size: $500k - $10M

About the fnInvestor

Matt Carbonara is a Managing Director at Citi Ventures and works out of the Palo Alto office. He is looking to meet entrepreneurs innovating in Enterprise IT, Cybersecurity, Customer Experience, and Marketing. Matt strives to create win-win scenarios that provide customer engagement and product feedback for high-potential startups while motivating innovation and business transformation for both Citi and its clients.

Prior to Citi Ventures, Matt was at Cisco where he led investments and acquisitions in the areas of enterprise networking, collaboration, and IoT as well as in the country of Israel. He also has investment experience from Comcast Ventures and TeleSoft Partners. Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, Matt was employee 10 at Terayon Communication Systems, a Sequoia and Lightspeed-backed startup that went public, where he initially architected and designed application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) before moving into product marketing and product management.

Matt received his B.S. summa cum laude and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from The Ohio State University. Outside of investing he enjoys basketball, golf (one hole-in-one), wakesurfing, and coaching his two daughters in sports.

Expertise

Venture Capital, M&A, Cloud, Enterprise Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Customer Experience, Big Data, AI / ML, DevOps