Investing Profile

Karim Faris

VCInvestor
General Partner at Google Ventures
gv.com/team/karim-faris/San Francisco, California
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Harvard Business School Network
507 CONNECTIONS
Google Network
475 CONNECTIONS
Morgan Stanley Network
234 CONNECTIONS
University of Michigan Network
133 CONNECTIONS
University of Michigan Network
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Current Investing Position
Google Ventures General Partner
Investment Range
$250K - $50.0M
Sweet Spot
$25.0M
Investments On Record
106

Karim Faris is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Karim Faris's Investments On Record (46)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Censys
Series DMar 2026$40M
Series COct 2023$50M
Series BJan 2022$35M
Series AAug 2020$16M
SeedNov 2018$3M
$140M
Co-investors: Asheem Chandna (Greylock), Sunil Kurkure (Intel Capital), Jon Sakoda (Decibel Partners), Robin Vasan (Mango Capital)
WitnessAI
Series UnknownJan 2026$58M
Series AMay 2024$28M
$86M
Co-investors: Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Logan Allin (Fin Capital)
Veza
Series DApr 2025$110M
Series CApr 2022$110M
$220M
Co-investors: Joe Montana (Liquid 2 Ventures), Lars Dalgaard (Andreessen Horowitz), Puneet Agarwal (True Ventures), Eric Wolford (Accel), Aaron Jacobson (New Enterprise Associates (NEA)), Enrique Salem (Bain Capital Ventures), David Zilberman (Norwest Venture Partners), Rama Sekhar (Norwest Venture Partners)
Push Security
Series BApr 2025$30M
Series AMar 2023$15M
$49M
Co-investors: Jordan Segall (Redpoint Ventures), Erica Brescia (Redpoint Ventures), Jon Sakoda (Decibel Partners)
Mimic Networks
Series AFeb 2025$50M
$77M
Co-investors: Matt Murphy (Menlo Ventures), Theodore Schlein (Ballistic Ventures)
UJET
Series DSep 2024$76M
Series CJun 2020$55M
Series BFeb 2018$25M
$180M
Co-investors: Jason Krikorian (DCM), Jai Das (Sapphire Ventures), Ramneek Gupta (PruVen Capital)
Altana
Series CJul 2024$200M
Series BOct 2022$100M
Series ASep 2021$15M
$320M
Co-investors: Julian Counihan (Schematic Ventures), Raj Atluru (Element Partners)
Alethea
Series BApr 2024$20M
$30M
Co-investors: Theodore Schlein (Ballistic Ventures)

Karim Faris's Experience

General Partner Google Ventures2009 - Present
General Partner GVPresent
General Partner GV (Google Ventures)Present
Associate GEPresent
Software Engineer, Vehicle Navigation Systems SiemensPresent
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.
Brown University Sc.B. Computer Engineering & Business Economics
Brown University Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering
University of Michigan M.S. Computer Engineering
University of Michigan master of science, masters computer engineering