Kamran Ansari

VC | fmr Head of Corporate Development at Pinterest

📍 New York, New York, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 77 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2025𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States50+ investmentsInvested this year
77
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36
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15
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Venture Investor
Oct 2025
Work changes. People progress.
Private Investor
Apr 2025
We equip business owners with an industry-tailored credit card, bank account, and bill pay platform — built to solve the cash flow issues holding you back.
Private Investor
Oct 2024
Mic Drop is a magnificent karaoke venue featuring a rocking main stage, as well as thirteen private studios of varying sizes. Through state of the art lighting, sound, design, and software we are taking karaoke to the next level.
Private Investor
Apr 2024
Vantage Discovery is a generative AI-powered SaaS platform that enables intelligent search, discovery, and personalized recommendations so apps can deliver breathtaking customer experiences.
Private Investor
Dec 2023
Let’s enjoy a healthier relationship with our health. In a world where the health food culture is increasingly complex, temporary, and stress-inducing, we’re creating the opposite. JOVA’s on a mission to help people live healthier lives more easily. > We make good, quality nutrition more accessible and convenient. > We believe you don’t have to sacrifice taste in order to eat well. > We normalize reality, alleviate toxic standards and celebrate a healthy relationship with food. > We champion good science, eradicate bad practices and reject garbage ingredients. > We strive to be a net positive for the planet. Join us! Follow and sign-up for launch updates at www.livejova.com.
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Private Investor
Nov 2023
Mesa is on a mission to make homeownership more affordable and rewarding. Led by a world-class team of repeat founders and fintech operators from Uber, Amex, Robinhood, Capital One, BILT, Cash App, Square, Zillow, LendingTree, and Spotify, they are creating the homeowner membership category. Their platform gives real value back to consumers for the $6T in annual homeownership spend. Homeowner membership offers exclusive benefits and rewards across mortgage originations, mortgage payments, warranty, insurance, HELOC, and more. Mesa is bringing credit card style membership to every financial product for your home.
Private Investor
Oct 2023
Copilot for Tech Architecture - equipping companies with a data-driven and AI-powered platform to excel with evaluating, planning and evolving their tech stacks.
Private Investor
May 2023
Castellum.AI’s mission is to help businesses and governments identify and prevent financial crime. We offer the most accurate, reliable and fastest compliance screening solution to identify global financial crime risk across sanctions, PEPs, adverse media, high-risk ownership and more. Castellum.AI eliminate 88% of the false positives that slow down compliance teams at banks, fintechs and global companies. Our platform is designed to meet the evolving needs of compliance teams, enabling seamless integration into KYC/KYB onboarding, real-time monitoring, transaction screening and supply chain compliance processes.
Private Investor
Apr 2023
Using AI to scale small business banking worldwide. https://www.grupago.mx/english
Private Investor
Feb 2023
Pagos is merchant centered, data powered, and tech enabled. We’re here to reduce payments complexity, drive better performance and revenue growth, and foster a community of learning across the payments industry. Our core team has 50+ years of collective experience in financial technology, and our mission is driven by what we have learned. The tools we build are focused on: * Awareness: merchants need clear data insights and visualizations across their payment processors and partners so they can make the right decisions for their businesses * Advice: merchants need a platform that understands their business environment and offers tailored insights * Action: our knowledge and tools should help merchants make decisions which enable their business to thrive We want companies to be able to deliver best in class payment experiences and understand when and where things are changing over time. By connecting with your current payment stack and partners, we’ll help you increase revenue, reduce cost, and delight customers.
Private Investor
Jan 2023
StellarFi is the first and only credit-builder that reports all bill payments as credit transactions directly to the three major credit bureaus. StellarFi sets out to disrupt and enhance conventional credit reporting standards by allowing its members to pay everyday bills such as rent, utilities, and subscriptions while automatically building their credit. Founded in Austin, Texas, as a public benefit corporation, StellarFi is led by a seasoned team of fintech veterans that have led several companies through acquisitions and IPOs. Since its public launch in July 2022, StellarFi has achieved major accomplishments: Named a Top 100 Startups to Watch in Austin, Future 5 of Austin Tech, and featured in Built In, Yahoo Finance, and USA Today: https://stellarfi.com/press Reached its $2M ARR milestone in 205 days Continually doubling active membership month-over-month Millions of dollars in linked recurring bill volume Named a top “Product of the Day” on Product Hunt Trusted Employer Jobsage.com (4.6 of 5) If you are interested in partnering with StellarFi, head to https://stellarfi.com/affiliate to speak to a member of our team.
Private Investor
Dec 2022
Mesh is the best-in-class platform and API for companies to verify the identity and credentials of SMBs & professionals, and onboard them frictionlessly. We are on a mission to build the worlds most trusted digital identity network for professionals and businesses on the Internet. We make it simple, quick, and delightful for modern companies to know who they are doing business with in B2B e-commerce, financial services, and other sectors. Our team brings 20+ years of senior-level experience developing and launching global products for Amazon.com, expertise in the background screening industry,
 cybersecurity experience serving military & Fortune 500 companies,
 and technical know-how with AI/ML and data privacy
. Learn more at https://www.mesh.id/
Private Investor
Dec 2022
A transfer agent for the modern company
Private Investor
Sep 2022
Clair is a New York-based mission driven digital banking platform that provides American workers with fee-free access to their earnings anytime via our Clair Debit Mastercard and FDIC-insured Spending and Savings accounts. Clair’s On-Demand Pay product is embedded within the digital or physical punch clocks of our HR technology partners, where American workers clock in and out every day. By giving workers control and access to their earnings anytime, Clair is bringing financial confidence to America's workforce. Clair is trusted by leading HR tech companies such as When I Work and 7Shifts and provides a valuable free employee benefit utilized by thousands of businesses across the United States. Bank Services provided by MetaBank®, N.A., Member FDIC.
Private Investor
Jun 2022
Floor is on a mission to make NFTs understandable and accessible. 📱Floor is your app for everything NFTs 🤝 With 50,000+ monthly active wallets 🌎 Built together, VC-scaled 🥰 Positive vibes only Our team is experienced, passionate, and driven by a shared desire to create a more equitable future for web3. We lead with humility, transparency, and operational rigor, all of which allow us to do our best work. We’re designers, engineers, and operators. Problem solvers and storytellers. Individuals made better by the power of teamwork. Join us, and let’s build the future of web3. Floor is currently invite-only. Download the app to request an invite! To learn more about Floor, visit www.floornfts.io and to join our team, visit www.floornfts.io/company
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Venture Investor
Oct 2025
Work changes. People progress.
Venture Partner
Jul 2025
Founded in 2021, Infinity Ventures is an early-stage venture firm investing in global fintech infrastructure and commerce enablement. Our approach is grounded in deep sector focus, multi-stage investment experience from seed to exit, and relationships across the fintech and commerce ecosystems. Learn more about us at www.infinityvc.capital.
Private Investor
Apr 2025
We equip business owners with an industry-tailored credit card, bank account, and bill pay platform — built to solve the cash flow issues holding you back.
2024
Private Investor
Oct 2024
Mic Drop is a magnificent karaoke venue featuring a rocking main stage, as well as thirteen private studios of varying sizes. Through state of the art lighting, sound, design, and software we are taking karaoke to the next level.
Private Investor
Apr 2024
Vantage Discovery is a generative AI-powered SaaS platform that enables intelligent search, discovery, and personalized recommendations so apps can deliver breathtaking customer experiences.
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