Karim Elsahy

Karim Elsahy is a winning angel investor & serial entrepreneur with a current emphasis on ai, bots, and conversational commerce. Karim started and lead several successful companies; the first of which, founded in his early twenties, reached more than 250 people with offices globally. More recently Karim founded Genius Ventures (Genius.VC), a VC firm which was itself also acquired (Sawari Ventures). Karim is currently a Kauffman Fellow (Class 18) being mentored by Dave McClure, Founding Partner 500 Startups. Karim frequently consults with Fortune 500 companies, well known business and political leaders, and many VC backed tech companies. Karim has served on advisory boards to the Egyptian Ministry of Communication focusing on how to expand and brand Egypt as an outsourcing destination and has traveled with several Egyptian Ministers on trade mission to other counties. With a Masters in Architecture Karim initially started his career as an architect and designer for a firm in Boston that specialized in Iraqi Reconstruction. That was combined with political writings in several top publications with interviews ranging from Noam Chomsky to the Egyptian Ministerial Cabinet in addition to being a frequent guest political analyst for BBC radio; Karim has serious political passion. Karim is married to Abeer, whom he still considers his college sweetheart, and has two crazy Bohemianesque boys. They divide their time between SF and Cairo.