Kamran Ansari
Venture Partner @ Greycroft
New York, United States
Kamran Ansari is a Venture Partner at Greycroft and was a Head of Corporate Development at Pinterest. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Stanford Law School, and Yale University.
- Total investments:
- 37
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 22%
Last updated:
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Industries Kamran Ansari invests in
Stages Kamran Ansari invests in
Countries Kamran Ansari invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $935k–$6.1M
- Series A
- $1.5M–$14M
- Series B
- $12M–$126M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 8 (22%)
- Software 7 (19%)
- Mobile 6 (16%)
- FinTech 6 (16%)
- Payments 5 (14%)
Stage
- Series A 13 (35%)
- Seed 8 (22%)
- Series B 8 (22%)
- Series C 2 (5%)
- Funding Round 1 (3%)
Country
- United States 18 (49%)
- Estonia 1 (3%)
- Ireland 1 (3%)
- United Kingdom 1 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Catio is a cloud infrastructure platform enabling companies to excel with cloud-native tech stacks, focused on tech stack evaluation, planning, and evolution. | $3M / Seed / Mar 05, 2025 | ||
| Credit Key is a patented pay-over-time financing solution for B2B e-commerce merchants. | $15M / Series B / Oct 19, 2022 | ||
| We believe the flow of money between businesses should mirror the seamless flow of money between individuals. As former small business owners ourselves, we're all too familiar with the intricacies of getting paid and making payments to service providers. Hopscotch's stored value accounts and consumer-like business profiles enable us tocreate an unmatched payments experience. But our vision extends beyond a payments platform. We're building a destination for small businesses to connect, transact, and grow together. A simple, easy-to-use interface. A community of businesses thriving. Together. As one. | $6.1M / Seed / Mar 08, 2022 | ||
| Invoicing, bill pay, and cash flow management for small businesses. | $6.1M / Seed / Mar 04, 2022 | ||
| Recurly gracefully handles all the complexities of subscription billing and revenue optimization.Recurly, Inc. provides enterprise-class recurring billing management for thousands of subscription-based SaaS, Web 2.0, Mobile, content and publishing businesses worldwide. Since it’s launch in January of 2010, Recurly has deployed subscriptionbilling for companies throughout North America and the European Union. As the leading recurring billing platform Recurly ensures setup is easy, integrations are quick and their service sales with the needs of any business. With Recurly merchants can be ready to accept payments and focus on growing sales in days not weeks.They improve subscriber economicsRecurly reduces subscriber churn resulting from unnecessary credit card declines. Card recycling delivers a 10-27% improvement in recovered invoices.They improve operational efficiencyTheir dashboard helps merchant staff easily handle customer-related billing issues. Upgrades, downgrades, voids and refunds are all handled with a few simple clicks. No training required.They reduce PCI compliance costsAs a level 1 PCI compliant service provider Recurly greatly reduces your costs and obligations associated with PCI compliance. | $19.5M / Series C / Sep 27, 2019 | ||
| Custora is the leader in advanced customer analytics for the retail industry. Our Customer Intelligence Platform empowers marketing leaders with the insightful guidance they need to deliver results today while maximizing profitable growth over the long term. The Custora platform assembles a clear view of each customer, uses predictive analytics toidentify the most important customer segments and journeys, and provides prescriptive recommendations to grow customer lifetime value – all in a way that recognizes the constraints that marketing leadership faces on a daily basis. | $13.8M / Series B / Sep 06, 2018 | ||
| Braavo provides revenue-based financing to mobile app and game developers worldwide. Whether you're a an early-stage health and fitness app or a multi-million dollar mobile gaming publisher, Braavo is your partner for flexible, affordable and on-demand financing.Founded in 2015, Braavo is headquartered in New York City. The company hasfunded nearly half a billion dollars to the top app companies in the world and is backed by investors including e.ventures, SWS Venture Capital, SV Angel, BoxGroup, Upper90, and a number of successful angels and entrepreneurs from the fintech and mobile community. | $6M / Series A / Aug 21, 2018 | ||
| Azimo is an online money transfer company that provides a fast, secure, and low-cost alternative to legacy high street remittance services.Azimo is created with the explicit mission of cutting the costs of sending money home. Its international money transfer platform allows to send money either to a bank account or to over 270,000 cash pick-uppoints around the world and is accessible via mobile devices. | $20M / Series C / May 29, 2018 | ||
| Billie is a wellness company that offers shaving supplies and body products. Billie is committed to designing products that are uniquely built to provide women everyday TLC from top to toe. Billie believes that women shouldn't be an afterthought in the shaving category and that they deserve to have a great shave without having to pay more forit.Billie was founded in 2017 and is based in New York. | $1.5M / Seed / Dec 08, 2017 | ||
| Braavo provides revenue-based financing to mobile app and game developers worldwide. Whether you're a an early-stage health and fitness app or a multi-million dollar mobile gaming publisher, Braavo is your partner for flexible, affordable and on-demand financing.Founded in 2015, Braavo is headquartered in New York City. The company hasfunded nearly half a billion dollars to the top app companies in the world and is backed by investors including e.ventures, SWS Venture Capital, SV Angel, BoxGroup, Upper90, and a number of successful angels and entrepreneurs from the fintech and mobile community. | $935K / Seed / Dec 01, 2017 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Greycroft
Greycroft is a venture capital firm that focuses on technology start-ups and investments in the Internet and mobile markets.With offices in two of the most important business hubs in the world, New York and Los Angeles Greycroft uniquely positioned to serve entrepreneurs who have chosen us as their partners. The firm leverages an extensivenetwork of media and technology industry connections to help entrepreneurs gain visibility, build strategic relationships, bring their products to market, and build successful businesses. Greycroft manages in excess of $1 billion and has made over 200 investments since its inception in leading companies including Acorns, App Annie, Bird, Botkeeper, Bright Health, Boxed, Braintree, Buddy Media, Everything But The House, Extreme Reach, Huffington Post, Icertis, JW Player, Maker Studios, Plated, Scopely, Shipt, TheRealReal, Thrive Market, Trunk Club, Venmo, WideOrbit, and Yeahka.Greycroft has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider.
Greycroft Contacts
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Alison Lange Engel
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Bo Peabody
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Kamran Ansari
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Marcie Vu
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Peter Saperstone
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FAQ
What does Kamran Ansari invest in?
Kamran Ansari invests primarily in Financial Services, Software and Mobile startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 37 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 Kamran Ansari's check size?
Kamran Ansari typically joins rounds of $935k–$6.1M at Seed, $1.5M–$14M at Series A and $12M–$126M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Kamran Ansari participates in.
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When did Kamran Ansari last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Kamran Ansari closed in Mar 2025. Shizune tracks 37 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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