William Barnes
Founding Partner at Karman Ventures
Austin, Texas
Overview
Work Experience
Founding Partner
2023 - Current
Karman is an early stage focused venture fund investing in San Francisco and New York. Karman provides founders with access to the network of tools, talent and capital that have built some of the most iconic technology companies of our generation.
Karman Ventures is a venture capital firm backed by early employees of Uber and other decacorn startups.
Founding Partner
2018 - 2023
Led group of former Uber executives investments into 200+ companies including SpaceX, Anduril, Varda, Figure AI, Veho, Lime, Pietra, Fonoa, Superhuman, Snackpass, and others. Founded broader Uber alumni group with 3000+ members.
Regional General Manager U.S. West Coast
2014 - 2017
first 50 employee, launched LA, built and scaled west coast operations into a multi-billion dollar business - overseeing various initiatives like the inception of the customer support org, uberEATs, various product launches and a global driver empathy program.
Regional General Manager, U.S. Southwest
2013 - 2014
General Manager, Los Angeles
2012 - 2013
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.
Founder
2008 - 2012
0 to 4million+ monthly readers & 40million+ video views per month
CEO
2009 - 2011
Acquired, scaled, sold.