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Saba Karim
Founder of Favs
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Saba Karim
Founder of Favs
Los Angeles, California
Overview
Saba Karim is the Founder of Favs, a platform focused on keeping close friends connected. With a background in growth strategies and venture capital, Saba has held leadership roles at Techstars as a Venture Partner and at Evolve App as CMO, showcasing expertise in early-stage startups and marketing strategy.
Work Experience
CEO & Co-founder
2023 - Current
Real friends only
Raised $1,500,000.00 from David Cohen, Ryan Holmes, Kleiner Perkins and Sunset Ventures.
Venture Partner (Rising Stars Fund)
2021
Head of Startup Pipeline
2018 - 2023
Techstars is an accelerator that provides pre-seed investment and mentoring for various early stage startups.
Raised $108,919,999.00 from SVB Financial Group and Foundry Group.
Advisor
2023
Advisor
2020
REZA is a footwear and apparel brand that develops advanced footwear technology.
Raised $120,000.00 from Chris Sang, Emlyn Scott, Everywhere Ventures, Chasella and Techstars.
Mentor
2018
SparkCharge is an automotive company that offers mobile and convenient charging stations for electric vehicles.
Raised $67,640,706.00 from Elemental Impact.
Founding Team
2016 - 2022
Orai is an AI speech coach that helps people sound more confident in meetings and presentations.
Raised $2,420,000.00 from Comcast Ventures, Menlo Ventures, nvp capital, Prototype Capital, BDMI, Ben Franklin Technology Partners and Techstars.
Advisor
2020 - 2022
HAGS is a platform for high school students built on top of Snapchat.
Raised $1,000,000.00 from Basement Fund, Google Ventures and BoxGroup.
CMO / Founding Team
2016 - 2017
Advice in Love, powered by Machine Learning
Raised $1,100,000.00 from Right Side Capital Management, Techstars, Jopeko LLC, Techstars, Bantam Group and Spark Capital.
VP of Growth
2014 - 2016
Director of Platform
2013 - 2014
Education
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