Darian Shirazi
Gradient Ventures
About
Role
General Partner
Type
Multi-stage VC
Bio
Darian is a General Partner at Gradient Ventures. Prior to Gradient, Darian founded Radius, a leading B2B Customer Data Platform, serving as the company’s CEO for 7+ years. He grew the company to over one hundred employees, raised more than $100MM in venture capital from top tier firms, and served dozens of Fortune 500 customers. He is an early investor in many companies including Lyft, Udemy, Carbon Health, Palantir, and serves on the Board of Directors at MainStreet, Contractbook, and Chili Piper, among others. He studied briefly at UC Berkeley, after working at Facebook as a Software Engineer reporting to Mark Zuckerberg, but dropped out after two years to work full-time on startups. Darian lives in San Francisco with his wife and two cats and enjoys skiing, kitesurfing, and Civilization VI.
About Investments
Darian often invests in AI, fintech and SaaS.
Investments
Stages
Pre-seed, Seed, Series A
Check Range
$1M-$5M
Geography
Global
Leads Rounds
Prefers to
Investment Highlights
Carbon Health, Chili Piper, MainStreet, Mural, Udemy
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