Karim Faris is a General Partner at GV who has specialized in enterprise software, big data, and security since joining the firm at its inception in 2009, after working in Google's investments and acquisitions group and previously as a principal at Atlas Venture. He uses pattern recognition in modern data infrastructure as his investment approach, looking for recurring data and security patterns across enterprises and backing companies that fit those patterns rather than broad themes, while frequently joining boards of deeply technical security and infrastructure startups.