Darian Shirazi
Managing Partner at Gradient Ventures
Darian Shirazi
Managing Partner at Gradient Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Partner
2019 - Current
Leading Seed, Series A, & Series B investments at Gradient Ventures, a venture fund focused on artificial intelligence and data-rich companies. We invest in amazing founders from a set of true venture funds with Google as our majority LP. See more here: http://www.gradient.com Select Investments: - Mural (Series A) - Gigs (Series A) - Writer (Series A) - SecureFrame (Seed) - Chili Piper (Series A) - Streamlit (Series A, Series B) (Acquired by Snowflake) - Collective (Seed) - Stairwell (Seed) - Klara (Series B) (acquired by ModMed) - Astro (Pre-seed) - FlutterFlow (Pre-seed) - Mine (Seed) - Oura (Series A) - Sona (Seed)
Investor
2008
Udemy ($UDMY) Palantir ($PLTR) Grab ($GRAB) Loft Carbon Health SmithRx OpenGov Osaro Sense Platform (acquired by Cloudera) Casetext (acquired by Reuters) US BTC Corp ($HUT) Infisical Resend Felt SpaceX Dynamic.xyz and many more http://darianshirazi.com
CEO & Co-Founder
2012 - 2018
Founded, built, and scaled the leading B2B Customer Data Platform company. Highlights: * Served as CEO from founding to September 2018 * Grew business from 0 to $15MM in ARR in <4 years with blue chip customers including Comcast, American Express, T-Mobile, First Data, MetLife, AllState * Hired a world-class team
Software Engineer
2005 - 2007
One of the first 10 hires; worked on various projects. Reported directly to Mark. Left to go to undergrad.
Engineer Intern
2002 - 2004
Worked on the code QA team for V3 of Sell Your Item. Reported to VP of Product Management.