Brian Karas has been involved in various venture-backed startups going back to the dot-com days. He joined the security industry in 2008 with VideoIQ, where he became vice president of global sales before the company was acquired by Avigilon. Within Avigilon he held several leadership roles, and he has also worked for other security industry companies, including FLIR and Vintra.

Karas started Pelican Zero in 2021 as a business growth consultant to security industry companies where he works with private equity firms, banks and private investors to help industry companies find funding or just take their business to the next level of growth.

Prior to the security industry, Karas was an early employee at HubSpot and other companies in the networking and cybersecurity sectors.