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Ansaf Kareem

Term Member at Council on Foreign Relations

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Ansaf Kareem is an Early Stage Investor based in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a background in business development, entrepreneurship, and leadership. Notable achievements include serving as a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners and investing in companies like Synctera (Series A) and Kikoff (Series B). Kareem's career highlights include being a Board Member at multiple organizations, such as Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and Rain, and investing in diverse sectors like Consumer Internet, FinTech, and Enterprise, showcasing a strong track record in identifying and supporting successful startups.

Work Experience 

  • Term Member

    2020 - Current

Council on Foreign Relations operates as a non-partisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher.

Raised $2,312,565.00 from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

  • Board Member

    2023

Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research is a nonpartisan economic research institution.

  • Board Member

    2022 - 2023

Rain is a finance company that provides credit card services with technical support for secure transactions to web3 and crypto companies.

  • Board Member

    2021 - 2023

Summer provides full-service property management service for finding vacation homes.

Raised $81,500,000.00 from Gaingels, Not Boring, Alumni Ventures, 1Sharpe Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Firstminute Capital, Connecticut Innovations, Merrimac and Elizabeth Street Ventures.

  • Board Member

    2020 - 2023

Synctera is a banking technology platform that enables community banks and fintech companies to collaborate and provide financial services.

Raised $79,000,000.00 from Lightspeed Venture Partners, NAventures, Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, Evolution Ventures, Mana Ventures, Diagram Ventures, Fin Capital, The Banc Funds, NAventures and Midland States Bank.

  • Board Member

    2019 - 2023

Kikoff is a personal finance platform that offers credit-building solutions.

Raised $42,500,000.00 from Portage Ventures, Core Innovation Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

  • Board Member

    2019 - 2023

Glean develops an AI-based search engine software that connects enterprise data and generates answers through a tool in any company.

Raised $618,200,000.00 from Coatue, Kleiner Perkins, General Catalyst, ICONIQ Growth, Cacti, Latitude Capital, Craft Ventures, Altimeter, Lightspeed Venture Partners and SoftBank Vision Fund.

  • Partner

    2016 - 2023

    Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm focused on investing in both enterprise and consumer sectors. Lightspeed manages over $18 billion of capital under management with offices in the Bay Area, China, India, Israel, Europe, and Southeast Asia.

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets.

  • Investor

    2018 - 2021

    NASDAQ: GRAB

  • Board Member

    2017 - 2021

    Acquired by Kahoot! (OSE: KHOTF) in September 2021 for $500M.

Clever is a digital learning platform designed for K12 schools and used by 22 million students and teachers.

Raised $43,320,000.00 from Lightspeed Venture Partners, GSV Ventures, Founders Fund and Sequoia Capital.

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