# Jawed Karim

> Jawed Karim is a seed investor at Y Ventures (Palo Alto) backing Software and Financial Services. See 30 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Y Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/youniversity-ventures)
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 30
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.jawed.com/

Jawed Karim is a Co-Founder of the popular video-sharing website YouTube. Prior to YouTube, he was a software architect at PayPal. Jawed holds degrees in computer science from UIUC and from Stanford University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $600k–$7M |
| Angel | $100k–$250k |
| Series A | $4M–$20M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 30% |
| Financial Services | 5 | 17% |
| FinTech | 4 | 13% |
| Internet | 4 | 13% |
| Marketplace | 4 | 13% |

83 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 18 | 60% |
| Series A | 4 | 13% |
| Angel | 3 | 10% |
| Series B | 2 | 7% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 3% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 22 | 73% |
| Finland | 1 | 3% |
| Germany | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Beglaubigt.de | Legaltech startup from Germany https://beglaubigt.de | $3.3M | Seed | Apr 16, 2026 |  |
| BlindPay | BlindPay is a stablecoin API that enables companies to send and receive money worldwide using fiat money, stablecoins and multiple blockchains. We handle all the complex compliance and regulatory requirements, so companies can focus on their core business. | $3.3M | Seed | Aug 07, 2025 |  |
| Conduit | Conduit, an AI-powered operating system that is transforming the management of residential properties, tackles these issues by automating visitor interactions, optimizing workflows, gaining strategic insights from market data analysis, and effectively scaling operations for property managers. Conduit is a platform for AI agents that facilitatesdialogue in the built environment. | $3.1M | Seed | Apr 10, 2025 |  |
| Conduit | Conduit is a better way for global businesses to simply and cheaply move money with faster speed, better visibility and fewer steps than traditional payment rails.Why choose Conduit? With the Conduit payments platform, your entire team has the tools they need to move money between USD and multiple local Latam currencies. Our dashboard issimple to use, with better transparency and faster, more exact quotes than alternatives. | $3.3M | Seed | Apr 10, 2025 |  |
| Swish Robotics | Embodied Intelligence for the Home | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | Mar 19, 2025 |  |
| Mentra | Mentra is a wearable technology company that develops smart glasses based on augmented reality and AI interface technologies. | $8M | Seed | Mar 12, 2025 |  |
| Whop | Whop is building a platform to service the internet economy. Millions of people are building new products that they are selling guerrilla style on social media and on forums throughout the internet. Whop gives these sellers a sleek storefront that can accept payments, seamlessly deliver digital products, and attract new customers visiting theirmarketplace. They currently handle almost $150M+ in yearly payments with thousands of active merchants. To view their open roles, please visit https://careers.whop.com | $55M | Series B | Dec 31, 2024 |  |
| Corgea | Corgea automatically secures your vulnerable source code. Corgea leverages AI to reduce development effort by 80%, enabling security teams to issue pull requests for source code fixes for engineering approval. | $2.6M | Seed | Nov 06, 2024 |  |
| Double | Double is a software platform that helps users to build, automate, and analyze investment portfolio for retail investors. | $3.3M | Seed | May 01, 2024 |  |
| Socket | Socket is a new security company that can protect your most critical apps from supply chain attacks. We are taking an entirely new approach to one of the hardest problems in security in a stagnant part of the industry that has historically been obsessed with just reporting on known vulnerabilities.Socket is built by a team of open sourcemaintainers with over 1 billion monthly downloads. Everyone on the Socket team is an open source maintainer. We are all driven to defend the open source ecosystem from supply chain attacks and make it safe for everyone.Socket is unique because, unlike other tools, it detects and blocks supply chain attacks before they strike, mitigating the worst consequences. | $20M | Series A | Aug 01, 2023 |  |

10 of 30 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Cota Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cota-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Lucas Venture Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lucas-venture-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Pi Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pi-labs-2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Transpose Platform Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ti-platform-management) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Y Ventures

VC Fund · Monrovia, United States

Formerly known as Youniversity Ventures, Y Ventures focuses on the internet consumer space and works primarily with students and first-time entrepreneurs. The three founders of the fund are Jawed Karim, Kevin Hartz, and Keith Rabois. Jawed was a co-founder at YouTube and was one of the earliest engineers at PayPal. Kevin co-founded Eventbrite, apopular event registration service. Kevin was also co-founder and CEO of Xoom Corporation, an international money transfer company providing service in over 30 countries. Keith leads business development and strategy for Slide. Prior to Slide, Keith ran business development and advertising sales for LinkedIn. According to published reports, the firm's focus is on former and current students at Stanford University and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

3 contacts available at Y Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jawed Karim | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jawed-karim |
| Keith Rabois | Partner & Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/keith-rabois |
| Kevin Hartz | Partner & Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kevin-hartz |

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## FAQ

### What does Jawed Karim invest in?

Jawed Karim invests primarily in Software, Financial Services and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 30 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Jawed Karim's check size?

Jawed Karim typically joins rounds of $600k–$7M at Seed, $100k–$250k at Angel and $4M–$20M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Jawed Karim participates in.

### When did Jawed Karim last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jawed Karim closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 30 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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