Rank #2198
Karim Atiyeh
Net worth $1.9B
Fintech · United States
- Born
- Sep 15, 1989
- Age
- 36
- Source
- Fintech
- Residence
- Miami, Florida
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Children
- 0
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- Karim Atiyeh is the cofounder and chief technology officer of fintech startup Ramp, which private investors valued at $32 billion in November 2025.
- Atiyeh launched the company in 2019 with Eric Glyman and Gene Lee. Each cofounder owns an estimated 6% of Ramp.
- Atiyeh and Glyman met as undergrads at Harvard and cofounded their first company, price tracking app Paribus, in 2014.
- The pair enrolled Paribus in the elite startup incubator Y Combinator that year and then sold the company to Capital One for an undisclosed sum in 2016.
- Atiyeh and Glyman continued to run Paribus as part of Capital One for two and a half years before leaving to launch Ramp.
- Before cofounding Paribus, Atiyeh worked for two years at consulting firm Oliver Wyman, doing what he describes as "PowerPoint and Excel".