Super excited to announce that Ansaf Kareem will be joining us a Fireside Chat on April 20th. Our host is Yousuf Khan, Partner Ridge Ventures. 📅 DATE: Sunday, 20th April 2025 🕙 TIME: 10am US Pacific / 10pm Pakistan 🔗 ZOOM: https://bit.ly/3DiJLuq Ansaf Kareem is Founder Latitude Capital, a Bay Area based VC fund focused on being the first call and partner to founders scaling from 0 to 1 and beyond. He was previously General Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, one of the largest early-stage venture capital firms globally with $25B+ AUM and raised $7B+ for various funds in 2022. They have backed close to 300 companies globally, including Snapchat, Nest, Honest Company, Nutanix, Nimble Storage, MuleSoft, and many others. Prior to Lightspeed, Ansaf worked at RelateIQ, an enterprise SaaS company based in Palo Alto acquired by Salesforce. Ansaf also worked on strategy for Grab in Vietnam, a smartphone booking and dispatch platform for the taxi industry in South East Asia with over $500M in funding from Tiger Global Management, SoftBank Capital, Coatue Management, and others. Previously, Ansaf worked as a management consultant for McKinsey in New York. His work includes education reform initiative in Pakistan with Sir Michael Barber - an effort that helped enroll over 1.5M students into school and increased existing student and teacher attendance by over 10 percent. Ansaf was selected as one of the first World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Shapers. He has also been recognized by Secretary Hillary Clinton as one of seventy Muslim-American leaders under the age of 30, and also appointed to the State Department’s Generation Change initiative. Ansaf has formerly served on the Board of Directors for the Stanford Alumni Association and as a member of the Aspen Institute’s Impact Careers Initiative. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Interfaith Youth Core and on the Social Investment Council for Echoing Green. Ansaf Kareem graduated with honors from Stanford University and served as the President of his class. Ansaf also received a Master in Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where he was a George Leadership Fellow, and a Master in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he was a David M. Rubenstein Fellow.
Super excited to announce that Ansaf Kareem will be joining us a fireside chat on April 20th to discuss current trends in due diligence and VC decision making. Don't Miss this One !! Ansaf Kareem is the founder of Latitude Capital, a Bay Area based VC fund focused on being the first call and partner to founders scaling from 0 to 1 and beyond. He was previously General Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, one of the largest early-stage venture capital firms globally with $25B+ AUM and raised $7B+ for various funds in 2022. They have backed close to 300 companies globally, including Snapchat, Nest, Honest Company, Nutanix, Nimble Storage, MuleSoft, and many others. Prior to Lightspeed, Ansaf worked at RelateIQ, an enterprise SaaS company based in Palo Alto acquired by Salesforce. Ansaf also worked on strategy for Grab in Vietnam, a smartphone booking and dispatch platform for the taxi industry in South East Asia with over $500M in funding from Tiger Global Management, SoftBank Capital, Coatue Management, and others. Previously, Ansaf worked as a management consultant for McKinsey in New York. His work includes education reform initiative in Pakistan with Sir Michael Barber - an effort that helped enroll over 1.5M students into school and increased existing student and teacher attendance by over 10 percent. Ansaf was selected as one of the first World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Shapers. He has also been recognized by Secretary Hillary Clinton as one of seventy Muslim-American leaders under the age of 30, and also appointed to the State Department’s Generation Change initiative. Ansaf has formerly served on the Board of Directors for the Stanford Alumni Association and as a member of the Aspen Institute’s Impact Careers Initiative. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Interfaith Youth Core and on the Social Investment Council for Echoing Green. Ansaf Kareem graduated with honors from Stanford University and served as the President of his class. Ansaf also received a Master in Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where he was a George Leadership Fellow, and a Master in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he was a David M. Rubenstein Fellow.
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