The enterprise tech market is on fire: These 23 venture capitalists are picking the winners and shaping the future of work

Karim Faris is general partner at GV where he focuses on enterprise software, data analytics, and security.

Faris has an MBA from Harvard in addition to an MS in electrical and engineering from University of Michigan and a BS in computer engineering from Brown.

He joined Google’s corporate development team in 2008 after spending time in venture capital firms, and started investing full time for GV, then known as Google Ventures, in 2010.

One of his portfolio companies, DocuSign, went public in April 2018. Another, Cloudera, went public in April 2017.

He’s also seen several companies get acquired, including MindMeld, which got acquired by Cisco in 2017, and Upthere, a cloud company that got acquired by Western Digital in 2017.