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Darian Shirazi

Gradient

San Francisco Bay Area

Skills

Start-ups
Entrepreneurship
Strategic Partnerships
Product Management
Mobile Applications
Mobile Devices
Strategy
SaaS
User Experience
Lead Generation
Barista Training
Business Strategy
Business Development
Digital Strategy
Social Media Marketing
Enterprise Software
Product Development
Social Networking
Analytics
CRM

Work Experience

  • Managing Partner

    2019

    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)

Lite VC

2008

  • 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

2005 - 2007

  • Software Engineer

    2005 - 2007

    One of the first 10 hires; worked on various projects. Reported directly to Mark. Left to go to undergrad.

2002 - 2004

  • Engineer Intern

    2002 - 2004

    Worked on the code QA team for V3 of Sell Your Item. Reported to VP of Product Management.