Ansaf Kareem
Term Member at Council on Foreign Relations
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
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.