Matt Carbonara
Private Equity Investor at Citi Ventures, Inc.
Profile
Matt 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.
Matt Carbonara active positions
| Companies | Position | Start |
|---|---|---|
Citi Ventures, Inc.
 Citi Ventures, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance Citi Ventures Inc. (Citi Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary founded in 2007 by Deborah C. Hopkins. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | Private Equity Investor | 2018-08-31 |
Former positions of Matt Carbonara
| Companies | Position | End |
|---|---|---|
Comcast Ventures LLC
 Comcast Ventures LLC Investment ManagersFinance Comcast Ventures LLC is a Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of Comcast Corp founded in the year 2011 by Sam H Schwartz and Julian A Brodsky. The firm headquartered in Philadelphia. | Private Equity Investor | 2016-07-31 |
Reservoir Venture Partners
 Reservoir Venture Partners Investment ManagersFinance Reservoir Venture Partners is a venture capital firm founded in the year 2001. The firm is headquartered in Ohio. | Private Equity Investor | 2011-04-30 |
TeleSoft Partners
 TeleSoft Partners Investment ManagersFinance TeleSoft Partners (Telesoft Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Arjun Gupta. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | Private Equity Investor | 2011-01-31 |
Cisco Investments Inc
 Cisco Investments Inc Investment ManagersFinance Cisco Investments Inc (Cisco Investments) is a venture capital subsidiary of Cisco Systems, Inc founded in 1993. The firm is headquartered in San Jose, California. | Private Equity Analyst | - |
Jungo Ltd.
 Jungo Ltd. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Jungo Ltd. develops residential gateway software and technology platforms. The company was founded by Ofer Vilenski and Derry Shribman in 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA. | Corporate Officer/Principal | - |
Training of Matt Carbonara
| The Ohio State University | Graduate Degree |
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| Listed companies | 1 |
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| CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. | Electronic Technology |
| Private companies | 9 |
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Comcast Ventures LLC
Comcast Ventures LLC Investment ManagersFinance Comcast Ventures LLC is a Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of Comcast Corp founded in the year 2011 by Sam H Schwartz and Julian A Brodsky. The firm headquartered in Philadelphia. | Finance |
Virident Systems, Inc.
 Virident Systems, Inc. Computer PeripheralsElectronic Technology Virident Systems, Inc. developed flash-based storage class memory solutions. It offered solid state disks for data-intensive workloads, such as databases, business analytics, simulation, visualization, and computing applications. The firms products included FlashMAX II and Virident vFAS. The company was founded by Kumar Ganapathy, Rajesh Parekh and Vijay Karamcheti in 2006 and was headquartered in Irvine, CA. | Electronic Technology |
Desktone, Inc.
 Desktone, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Desktone, Inc provided virtual desktop hosting platform. Its products included full VDI desktops, user session (RDS) desktops, and individual applications. It also provided enterprises with the option to require Desktone Platform end-users to authenticate with RSA SecurID two-factor authentication Desktone was founded in 2006 and headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. | Technology Services |
WhipTail Technologies, Inc.
 WhipTail Technologies, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services WhipTail Technologies, Inc. manufacturer of solid-state storage arrays. The firm's datacenter and virtual desktop systems dramatically reduce delays related to disk contention and access times - thereby allowing database or virtualization servers to process more data in dramatically less time, while lowering the overall TCO by up to 90 percent when compared to traditional storage. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Whippany, NJ. | Commercial Services |
Jungo Ltd.
Jungo Ltd. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Jungo Ltd. develops residential gateway software and technology platforms. The company was founded by Ofer Vilenski and Derry Shribman in 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA. | Technology Services |
TeleSoft Partners
TeleSoft Partners Investment ManagersFinance TeleSoft Partners (Telesoft Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Arjun Gupta. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | Finance |
Cisco Investments Inc
Cisco Investments Inc Investment ManagersFinance Cisco Investments Inc (Cisco Investments) is a venture capital subsidiary of Cisco Systems, Inc founded in 1993. The firm is headquartered in San Jose, California. | Finance |
Reservoir Venture Partners
Reservoir Venture Partners Investment ManagersFinance Reservoir Venture Partners is a venture capital firm founded in the year 2001. The firm is headquartered in Ohio. | Finance |
Citi Ventures, Inc.
Citi Ventures, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance Citi Ventures Inc. (Citi Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary founded in 2007 by Deborah C. Hopkins. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | Finance |
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