Karim Faris
General Partner at GV
Mountain View, California
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2009 - Current
I work on finding innovation and growth and bring all the resources at our disposal to help accelerate the growth of our portfolio companies
Google Ventures is an investment arm of Alphabet that provides seed, venture, and growth-stage funding to technology companies.
Investments & Acquisitions
2008 - 2010
Member of the Corporate Development team at Google. Identified and executed acquisitions and strategic investments.
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Principal
2002 - 2007
Led all aspects of tech and tech enabled services investing for $2B venture capital firm, including sourcing, due diligence, deal structuring and board representation. Contributed to portfolio company strategies, organizational and product development, corporate partnerships, financings and exit events. Focused on media, tech, telecom.
Atlas Venture creates and invests in biotech startup companies with seed and early stage venture investments.
Director, New Ventures
1999 - 2002
Responsible for identifying and investing in new business opportunities. Areas of focus included Internet services, digital media, and wireless technologies. Led product development for the company's voice services.
Level 3 Communications is an international communications company developing IP transit networks in North America and Europe.
Raised $13,700,000.00 from National Telecommunications and Information Administration.
Associate
1998 - 1998
Worked on technology M&A transactions and leveraged investment opportunities for the Private Equity fund.
Morgan Stanley Venture Partners is a private equity firm that invests in high-growth companies in the technology and healthcare industries.
Associate
1997 - 1997
Evaluated technology investment opportunities for stage agnostic private equity fund
GE Intelligent Platforms is a global provider of software, hardware, services, and embedded computing platforms.
Product Manager, Pentium Processor
1994 - 1997
Held various product, marketing, and business planning roles, initially on the i486, and later as product manager for the Pentium processor
An ecosystem of software & hardware vendors, integrators and solution providers focused on adoption of NFV and SDN-based solutions.
Software Engineer, Vehicle Navigation Systems
1994 - 1994
Developed navigation & testing software modules for world’s 1st in-vehicle system using GPS and on board sensors
Information and communications technology.