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
418 CONNECTIONS
Google Network
304 CONNECTIONS
Morgan Stanley Network
131 CONNECTIONS
University of Michigan Network
84 CONNECTIONS
Brown University Network
68 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
50
Current Fund Size
$8B

Karim Faris is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Karim Faris's Investments On Record (23)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
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
$51M
Co-investors: Austin Arensberg (Okta Ventures), Wally Wang (Scale Asia Ventures), George Kurtz
Altana AI
Series BOct 2022$100M
Series ASep 2021$15M
$120M
Co-investors: Nick Kingsbury (Amadeus Capital Partners), Anne Glover (Amadeus Capital Partners), Raj Atluru (Element Partners), Julian Counihan
Veza
Series UnknownApr 2022$110M
$110M
Co-investors: Enrique Salem (Bain Capital Ventures), Joe Montana (Liquid 2 Ventures), Puneet Agarwal (True Ventures), Eric Wolford (Accel), Lars Dalgaard (Luv Ventures), Kevin Mandia (Ballistic Ventures), Jake Seid (Ballistic Ventures), Rama Sekhar (Norwest Venture Partners), Dheeraj Pandey
Mabl
Series CNov 2021$40M
Series BSep 2018$20M
$70M
Co-investors: Murat Bicer (CRV), Sunil Dhaliwal (Amplify Partners)
FullStory
Series DAug 2021$100M
Series CApr 2019$32M
Series BMay 2017$15M
Series AJun 2015$11M
SeedJul 2014$2M
$160M
Co-investors: Theodore Schlein (Ballistic Ventures), Creighton Hicks (LiveOak Venture Partners), Harshit Sohu
oneNav
Series BMay 2021$21M
$21M
Co-investors: Matthew Howard (Norwest Venture Partners)

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.