Darian Shirazi

Managing Partner at Gradient Ventures

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview

Darian Shirazi is currently serving as the Managing Partner at Gradient Ventures, where he leads investments in various sectors including local services, travel, games, space, and AI. With a background that includes roles at Facebook and eBay, Shirazi has successfully invested in companies like Gynger, Mine, and FlutterFlow, showcasing his expertise in strategic partnerships and entrepreneurship.

Work Experience

Gradient Ventures

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)

Gradient is a seed fund that invests in founders developing AI technologies.

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Lite VC

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

Radius Intelligence

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

Radius Intelligence seeks to power data intelligence across all B2B applications, channels, and users.

Raised $107,550,000.00 from Founders Fund, AME Cloud Ventures, Formation 8, Salesforce Ventures, Glynn Capital Management, Yuan Capital and BlueRun Ventures.

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