Amr Alshihabi
General Partner at Karman Ventures
Amr Alshihabi
General Partner at Karman Ventures
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2021 - Current
about.karman.vc ex Uber angel club: link.movingcapital.com/signup ex Uber slack: ex-uber.com/signup
Karman Ventures is a venture capital firm backed by early employees of Uber and other decacorn startups.
Advisor, Investor, Tinkerer
2020 - 2021
Startup incubation (ODF8) + consulting / advisory (Veho, First Round, 500 Startups, Techstars etc) + angel investing. Veho Technologies - Growth & Talent Consultant (Oct 2020 - Aug 2021) - Led a hiring effort that yielded 1 VP and 10 Sr Manager / Director hires within 4 months - Migrated the company to a new applicant tracking system and hiring process - Made intros to help the company set up scalable hiring, HR, and finance/accounting practices On Deck - Founder Fellow, Cohort 8 (Feb 2021 - May 2021) First Round Capital - Mentor (Sep 2020 - Sep 2022) 500 Startups - EIR / Mentor (Aug 2020 - Oct 2021) Lookout Health Corp - Operations & Product Advisor (Nov 2020 - Nov 2022) Meet the Jewelers - Corporate Development Advisor (Sep 2020 - Oct 2021) Techstars - LaunchPad Mentor (Nov 2020 - Dec 2020) Leadership coach (2021 - present)
Staff BD Manager | Technology Business Development
2020 - 2020
Covered business development activities for Uber's: 1) new business incubator group, 2) technology / API partnerships, and 3) safety & compliance initiatives.
Head of Growth, Safety & Compliance Product Operations
2016 - 2020
Promoted 3 times while leading a global team of product operations managers and senior managers focused on driver growth, safety, compliance and insurance. Product ops work at a global scale with product and engineering teams by bringing regional insights into the product development lifecycle, aligning business and product requirements / strategies, and scaling technology products across Uber’s global footprint.
Senior Business Operations Manager | Driver Growth & Vehicles
2014 - 2016
Promoted twice while leading all driver acquisition, vehicle solutions & greenlight operations (in person driver support) efforts across the U.S. Southwest region. Managed a team of 15+ managers and hundreds of sales and support team members. Also led Uber’s first central operations team focused on all driver acquisition efforts across the U.S. West region.
Uber develops, markets, and operates a ride-sharing mobile application that allows consumers to submit a trip request.
Raised $30,212,450,000.00 from PayPal.
Head of Logistics & Distribution
2012 - 2014
BeachMint is a direct-to-consumer e-Commerce company which raised over $80m from Accel, NEA, Goldman Sachs, Anthem and other institutions. Led order fulfillment functions serving consumers across the US & Canada. Owned multi-million dollar third-party logistics, transportation, and consumer packaging budgets. Prior to being promoted, held a growth program management role - handling responsibilities in lifecycle marketing, merchandising, product operations, and customer acquisition capacities.
Investor
2011 - 2012
Evaluated investment opportunities for hundreds of early stage technology startups across Southern California and conducted financial audits on all managed funds and portfolio companies. $250M AUM
Associate Engineer II
2010 - 2011
Improved manufacturing processes, quality assurance and project/inventory management for consumer electronic products. Promoted from Associate Engineer I within 6 months.