Investing Profile

Karim Faris

VCInvestor

General Partner at Google Ventures

gv.com/team/karim-faris/San Francisco, California

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Networks Karim is a member of

Google Network

1047 CONNECTIONS

Harvard Business School Network

809 CONNECTIONS

Morgan Stanley Network

694 CONNECTIONS

University of Michigan Network

274 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

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Karim Faris's Investments On Record (47)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Censys	Series DMar 2026$40M Series COct 2023$50M Series BJan 2022$35M Series AAug 2020$16M SeedNov 2018$3M	$140M
Co-investors: Robin Vasan (Mayfield), Sunil Kurkure (Intel Capital), Jon Sakoda (Decibel Partners), Asheem Chandna (Greylock Partners)
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: Enrique Salem (Bain Capital Ventures), Puneet Agarwal (True Ventures), Aaron Jacobson (New Enterprise Associates (NEA)), Joe Montana (Liquid 2 Ventures), Lars Dalgaard (Andreessen Horowitz), Jake Seid (Ballistic Ventures), Kevin Mandia (Ballistic Ventures), Matt Weigand (Accel-KKR), Rama Sekhar (Norwest Venture Partners), David Zilberman (Norwest Venture Partners), Eric Wolford (Accel-KKR), Dheeraj Pandey (Param Hansa Values LLC)
Push Security	Series BApr 2025$30M Series AMar 2023$15M	$49M
Co-investors: Vidu Shanmugarajah (GV (Google Ventures)), Jordan Segall (Redpoint Ventures), Jon Sakoda (Decibel Partners), Erica Brescia (XFactor Ventures)
Mimic Networks	Series AFeb 2025$50M	$77M
Co-investors: Kevin Mandia (Ballistic Ventures), Theodore Schlein (Ballistic Ventures), Matt Murphy (Kleiner Perkins)
UJET	Series DSep 2024$76M Series CJun 2020$55M Series BFeb 2018$25M	$180M
Co-investors: Jai Das (Sapphire Ventures), Jason Krikorian (DCM Ventures), Ramneek Gupta (PruVen Capital)
Altana	Series CJul 2024$200M Series BOct 2022$100M Series ASep 2021$15M	$320M
Co-investors: Nick Kingsbury (Amadeus Capital Partners), Anne Glover (Amadeus Capital Partners), Julian Counihan (Schematic Ventures), Raj Atluru (Activate Capital), Hyun Koo (March Capital), Thomas Tull (US Innovative Technology), Peter Tague (US Innovative Technology)
Alethea	Series BApr 2024$20M	$30M
Co-investors: Kevin Mandia (Ballistic Ventures), Theodore Schlein (Ballistic Ventures)

Karim Faris's Experience

General Partner Google Ventures2009 - Present

Product Manager, Pentium Processor IntelPresent

Software Engineer, Vehicle Navigation Systems SiemensPresent

Associate GEPresent

General Partner GV (Google Ventures)Present

General Partner GVPresent

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

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