Darian is a General Partner at Gradient Ventures, Google’s new AI-focused venture fund. At 15, Darian interned at eBay as a code tester working on the third version of Sell Your Item. In 2005 he joined Facebook as a Software Engineer reporting to Mark Zuckerberg as one of the company’s first outside hires. After Facebook, Darian studied at the University of California, Berkeley for nearly two years before dropping out to work full-time on startups.
He 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. Darian is an early investor in the following companies: Lyft, Lending Club, Carbon Health, Palantir, Osaro, Casetext, Alloy.ai, Loft, and many others.