Investing Profile

Karim Faris

VCInvestor
General Partner at GV
gv.com/team/karim-faris/San Francisco, California
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Networks Karim is a member of
Harvard Business School Network
427 CONNECTIONS
Google Network
309 CONNECTIONS
Morgan Stanley Network
135 CONNECTIONS
University of Michigan Network
87 CONNECTIONS
Brown University Network
71 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position
GV (Google Ventures) General Partner
Investment Range
$250K - $50.0M
Sweet Spot
$25.0M
Investments On Record
55
Current Fund Size
$8B

Karim Faris is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Karim Faris's Investments On Record (26)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Mimic Networks
Series AFeb 2025$50M
$77M
Co-investors: Theodore Schlein (Ballistic Ventures), Kevin Mandia (Ballistic Ventures)
UJET
Series DSep 2024$76M
Series CJun 2020$55M
Series BFeb 2018$25M
$180M
Co-investors: Jason Krikorian (DCM), Cathy Gao (Sapphire Ventures), Jai Das (Sapphire Ventures), Ramneek Gupta (PruVen Capital)
Altana
Series CJul 2024$200M
Series BOct 2022$100M
Series ASep 2021$15M
$320M
Co-investors: Peter Tague (In-Q-Tel), Nick Kingsbury (Amadeus Capital Partners), Anne Glover (Amadeus Capital Partners), Raj Atluru (Element Partners), Thomas Tull, Julian Counihan
WitnessAI
Series AMay 2024$28M
$28M
Alethea
Series BApr 2024$20M
$30M
Co-investors: Theodore Schlein (Ballistic Ventures), Kevin Mandia (Ballistic Ventures)
Censys
Series COct 2023$50M
Series BJan 2022$35M
Series AAug 2020$16M
SeedNov 2018$3M
$100M
Co-investors: Sunil Kurkure (Intel Capital), Jon Sakoda (Decibel Partners), Robin Vasan (Mango Capital)
Push Security
Series AMar 2023$15M
$19M
Co-investors: Jon Sakoda (Decibel Partners)
Pangea
Series BNov 2022$26M
$53M
Co-investors: Austin Arensberg (Okta Ventures), Rob Biederman (Asymmetric Capital Partners), Colin Evans (Sandwith Ventures), David Martirano (Point Judith Capital), David Hehman (Underdog Labs), Wally Wang (Scale Asia Ventures), George Kurtz, Howard Love

Karim Faris's Experience

General Partner Google Ventures2009 - Present
Investments & Acquisitions Google2008 - 2010
Principal Atlas Venture2002 - 2007
Director, New Ventures Level 3 Communications1999 - 2002
Associate Morgan Stanley1998 - 1998
Associate Generation Partners1997 - 1997
Product Manager, Pentium Processor Intel Corporation1994 - 1997
Software Engineer, Vehicle Navigation Systems Siemens / BMW1994 - 1994

Karim Faris's Education

Harvard Business School MBA
University of Michigan M.S.
Brown University Sc.B.