Invests in
Sectors:
Locations:
Min Investment:
$1,000,000.00Max Investment:
$20,000,000.00Target Investment:
$5,000,000.00
Skills
Education
- HB
Lists including Luis
Investments
Tuum
Total Funding: $22M
PPRO
Total Funding: $190M
PayJoy
Total Funding: $190M
IVIX
Total Funding: $26M
Unlimited
Total Funding: $8M
Onward
Total Funding: $51M
Wildfire Systems
Total Funding: $15M
xalts
Total Funding: $6M
Belvo
Total Funding: $55M
Warren Investimentos
Total Funding: $77M
Work Experience
2025
Founder/Managing Partner
2025
VIM Investors is an emerging venture capital investment firm that leverages the 20+ years of relationships and expertise across fintech, broadly defined, and financial-services relevant enterprise/SaaS and applied AI/Gen AI that our founder, Luis Valdich, built as a senior investor with Citi Ventures, JPMorgan Strategic Investments, and Softbank - as well as a consultant at McKinsey and Harvard Business School grad. We invest in three areas: - Providing secondary liquidity via $10M-$100M SPVs to founders/employees, CVCs whose strategy has changed, and investors that need to generate DPI. Targeting $100M+ revenue startups in sectors above that are fully funded and still growing fast. (This is our primary focus.) - Early-stage startups. - Emerging venture capital managers. Our founder's venture capital investing background can be summarized as follows: -Former managing director at Citi Ventures (head of fintech) and JPMorgan (founder/head of firmwide strategic investments group); principal at Softbank -Nearly 100 direct investments in startups, across stages -Over 25 LP investments in established and emerging venture capital funds
2025
Co-founder & BD partner
2025
Luis is leveraging his 20+ years network as a venture capital investor to connect leading cyber security organizations to CYOPS Partners, an emerging professional services outsourcing firm focused on cyber that serves Palo Alto Networks and Tenable. CYOPS Partners recruits, trains, and manages the expert talent that its cyber partner firms require to deliver superior professional services to their end customers, enabling such firms to focus on their core business, increase customer satisfaction and retention, and scale faster.
2015 - 2025
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.
2008 - 2015
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
2004 - 2008
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
2000 - 2004
Principal
2000 - 2004
Sourcing and executing venture capital investments and monitoring portfolio companies