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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 

  • Founder & Managing Partner

    2024 - Current

  • Board Member

    2023

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

  • Investor

    2019

  • 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.

  • Investor

    2024

Decagon is a software development company that develops customer support software enabling businesses to improve their customer services.

Raised $100,000,000.00 from A* Capital, Bond, Bain Capital Ventures, ACME Capital, Accel and Elad Gil.

  • Investor

    2025

  • Investor

    2024

  • Board Member

    2022

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

  • Investor

    2024

  • Investor

    2024

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