Profile

Darian Shirazi

Location: USA

Darian Shirazi is a general partner at Gradient Ventures. Prior to Gradient, he founded Radius, a leading B2B customer data platform, and was CEO for over 7 years. He is also a board member of MainStreet. He is an observer on MURAL's board of directors.

NUMBER

#247

Xs

147

Investments

30

Exits

17
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Overview
About Darian Shirazi
Number of Portfolio Companies 4
Location USA

Darian Shirazi is a general partner at Gradient Ventures. Prior to Gradient, he founded Radius, a leading B2B customer data platform, and was CEO for over 7 years. He is also a board member of MainStreet. He is an observer on MURAL’s board of directors. He has grown the company to over a hundred employees, raised over $100 million in venture capital from top firms, and served dozens of Fortune 500 clients. He is an early investor in many companies including Lyft, Udemy, Carbon Health, Palantir and serves on the boards of MainStreet, Contractbook and Chili Piper, among others. He studied briefly at UC Berkeley, then worked at Facebook as a software engineer under Mark Zuckerberg, but dropped out after two years to work full time on startups. He was a member of the board of directors at Klara.

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ENTRY ROUND
VALUATION at entry ($M)
Xs
VALUATION 
Lyft
$5,39M
3818,18
$20 580M
Udemy
Series A1
$5M
798
$3 990M
Loft
Series A
$66,6M
43,54
$2 900M
Weave
Series B
$46,5M
32,47
$1 510M

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2024