Ansaf is a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, an early stage venture capital firm focused on both enterprise and consumer sectors. Lightspeed manages over $4 billion of committed capital and has backed more than 250 companies globally, including Snapchat, Nest, Honest Company, Nutanix, Nimble Storage, MuleSoft, and many other leading companies.

Prior to Lightspeed, Ansaf worked on the product team at RelateIQ, an enterprise SaaS company based in Palo Alto acquired by Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) in August 2014 for ~$400M. Ansaf also worked on product 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 & Company in New York. He led teams and advised clients globally in the financial services, technology, and public sectors in a host of functions from strategy to operations. His work included the well-documented education reform initiative in Pakistan with Sir Michael Barber - an effort that helped enroll over 1.5 million students into school and increased existing student and teacher attendance by over 10 percent. He also served clients in the financial sector following the economic crisis, working on assessing the impact of new capital requirements and improving processes to aid Americans hit by bankruptcy and foreclosure.

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 also served as Policy Fellow for former Newark Mayor, Cory Booker, during his successful campaign for United States Senate in 2013.

His work has been cited in the Washington Post, Huffington Post, U.S. Department of State, Sojourners, Journal of College & Character, and others. 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.