Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Investment Partner

Ansaf approaches venture capital from the perspective that “technology and entrepreneurship are great sources of positive change.” After all, he grew up at the intersection of technology and humanitarianism: His father was an electrical engineer and technologist, and his mother was a doctor who started a social-service organization to aid refugees in his hometown of Portland, Oregon.
But his path to venture capital was a circuitous one. His studies took him from Stanford, where he graduated with honors and served as class president, to Harvard, where he earned an MBA and an MPP. Ansaf was one of the first ten World Economic Forum (WEF) Young Global Shapers, a member of the Aspen Institute’s Impact Careers Initiative, and a Policy Fellow for Senator Cory Booker. Ansaf was always attracted to organizations and initiatives that sought to solve problems of great proportion.
“I’ve always believed that government can be a big lever of change,” he says. “But I also realized that technology was an accelerant that was changing the world at an alarming pace. Coupled with the right entrepreneur and team, big ideas could