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Karan Sharma

Managing Director at Liberty City Ventures

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Overview

Karan Sharma is a Managing Director at Liberty City Ventures [1][2], where Sharma focuses on investments and incubations in AI, blockchain, and frontier technologies [2]. Prior to this role, Sharma spent approximately eight years at GIC, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, serving as a Technology Investor [6] and leading the New York office while building the Digital Assets and New Horizons franchises [2]. During that tenure, Sharma backed companies including Anchorage, Anduril, Coinbase, Chainalysis, DoorDash, Headway, Paradigm, and SpaceX [2]. Earlier in Sharma's career, Sharma worked as a Technology Investment Banker at J.P. Morgan from 2015 to 2017 [7]. Sharma holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics with a concentration in Finance from the Wharton School [8] and studied Computer Science at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering and Applied Science [9], both completed in 2015.

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Karan Sharma is an investor and builder at the intersection of AI, blockchain, and frontier technologies. He is currently a Managing Director at Liberty City Ventures (LCV) where he focuses on investments and incubations. He previously spent 8 years at GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, where he helped build and scale the Digital Assets and New Horizons franchises, leading the New York office. At GIC, Karan backed and built relationships with some of the most transformative companies in technology — including Anchorage, Anduril, Coinbase, Chainalysis, DoorDash, Headway, Paradigm, SpaceX…

Career history

  1. Managing DirectorMay 2026 to presentLiberty City Ventures
  2. Advisor / InvestorFeb 2025 to May 2026Technology funds
  3. PartnerFeb 2025 to Sep 2025Interlagos
  4. Technology InvestorOct 2017 to Feb 2025GIC
  5. Technology Investment BankerJul 2015 to Aug 2017J.P. Morgan

Education

  1. Bachelor of Science in Economics, Concentration in FinanceAug 2011 - May 2015The Wharton School
  2. School of Engineering and Applied Science, Computer ScienceAug 2011 - May 2015University of Pennsylvania

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