Darian Shirazi

Investment Partner , Angel

Overview

Gender
male
Investor Type
Investment Partner,Angel
Investor Stage
Early stage Venture,Seed

Darian is General Partner at Gradient Ventures.

At the age of 15, he interned at eBay as a code tester working on the third version of Sell Your Item. In early 2005, he joined Facebook as a Software Engineer reporting to Mark Zuckerberg as one of the company’s first outside hires. At Facebook, he contributed to several components of the social network’s products and the early versions of its mobile products. After Facebook, Darian studied Philosophy and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley for nearly two years before dropping out to work full-time on startups.

After leaving Berkeley, Darian began advising and investing in many startups including becoming the first investor in Udemy, the online education marketplace. He then founded Radius, the leading B2B Customer Data Platform, and served as the company’s CEO for more than seven years, growing the company to more than one hundred employees, raising more than $100MM of venture capital from top tier firms, and serving dozens of Fortune 500 customers.

In addition to these accomplishments, Darian is an early investor in the following companies: Lyft, Lending Club, Carbon Health, Palantir, Osaro, Casetext, Alloy.ai, Loft, and many others.

In 2012, he was recognized as one of Forbes’ top 30 entrepreneurs under 30 at the age of 24 and has been a guest of CNBC’s Squawk Box, Forbes’ Braintech at the Aspen Institute, Web Summit, and several other well-known conferences and events.

Darian lives in San Francisco with his wife and two cats and enjoys skiing, kitesurfing, and Civilization VI.

Personal Investments

Number of Investments
12
Darian Shirazi has made 12 investments. Their most recent investment was on Sep 15, 2021, when Rewind raised $65M.
Date Company Name Round Money Raised Industry
Sep 22, 2022 Block Green Seed $3.70M Blockchain Detail
Dec 6, 2021 Platzi Series B $62M EdTech Detail
Sep 15, 2021 Rewind Series B $65M Information Technology Detail
Aug 5, 2021 TrueFi Initial Coin Offering $12.50M Blockchain Detail
Jan 19, 2021 Rewind Series A $15M Information Technology Detail
May 1, 2016 Carbon Health Seed $2.30M Electronic Health Record (EHR) Detail
Oct 21, 2014 Grab Series C $65M Apps Detail
Jun 11, 2014 Weave Series A $5M Medical Detail
Apr 2, 2014 Lyft Series D $250M Apps Detail
Oct 1, 2013 Casetext Seed $1.80M Artificial Intelligence Detail
Jul 10, 2013 Philo Series A $6.30M Digital Media Detail
Jun 11, 2012 OpenGov Series A $3M Data Visualization Detail