Udemy's mission is to create new possibilities for people and organizations everywhere by connecting them to the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in a changing world. The Udemy marketplace platform, with thousands of up-to-date courses in dozens of languages, provides the tools learners, instructors, and enterprises need to achieve their goals and reach their full potential. Millions of people learn on Udemy from real-world experts in topics ranging from programming and data science to leadership and team building. For companies, Udemy Business offers an employee training and development platform with subscription access to thousands of courses, learning analytics, and the ability to host and distribute their own content.

Udemy

Wedding Party By WedPics is a one-stop-shop for every bride who cares about having the most useful and unique tools to make her big day the most personal & fun celebration of her marriage. Our content includes real planning advice from brides, cool wedding hacks & ideas to make the big day more personal, and the latest inspiration & wedding trends.

We like to think of ourselves as the bride’s digital Maid of Honor, scouting the internet for the best ways the bride can simplify planning and truly set her wedding apart from the crowd. Approachable, unique, and helpful, every piece of content on the Wedding Party by WedPics is written with the bride in mind.

Wedding Party

Messageme.com is to provide an emotionally engaging communication experience that's fun, lightweight and ubiquitous. 

Messaging revolves around a simple loop: users send messages and respond to messages. Social gaming showed that there are ways to tweak the experience around this loop to increase its performance drastically by influencing the emotions surrounding reciprocal interactions. They believe there is a large opportunity to provide a new level of engagement and excitement in messaging apps by applying these techniques and philosophies.

MessageMe had also been courted by Snapchat as well as an app maker out of Europe, Truecaller. And, after earnouts, the price that Yahoo paid to acqui-hire MessageMe is between $30 million and $40 million.

MessageMe

Casetext has used A.I. legal research technology, that has been adopted across the legal market. Its award-winning technology offers both conventional search functionality and its CARA A.I. powered contextual search, which focuses on the context of research to help find on-point authorities faster. Founded by a team of former litigators from top law firms, as well as Ph.D. data scientists and leading A.I. engineers, Casetext helps legal researchers find the cases, including many that they would otherwise miss.

Casetext

Lyft designs, markets, and operates a mobile application that matches drivers with passengers who request rides, and also allows payment through the app. It also allows riders to schedule rides up to seven days in advance.

Its services are primarily focused on college, university, and corporate communities. Lyft is a fast-growing ridesharing company in the U.S. and is available to 95 percent of the US population.

Lyft was founded in June 2012 by Logan Green and John Zimmer in San Francisco, California.

Lyft

Sense is next-generation cloud platform for data science and big data analytics.  Designed for data scientists and data-driven enterprises, Sense provides a collaborative, scalable, and highly extensible platform for data analysis, statistical modeling, visualization, and reporting.

Sense allows data scientists to use the powerful data analysis tools they know, including R, Python, JavaScript, Hive, Impala,  and more; scale their analysis easily, without managing infrastructure; share and collaborate on data, code, and results; and move data science solutions from exploration to production within a unified platform.  Sense provides enterprises and business users an advanced analytics platform that can realize the true power of their data.

Sense Platform

OpenGov is a provider of modern cloud software that enables government operations for local governments and state agencies. The company's software is designed specifically for the public sector's particular budgeting, procurement, and community development requirements.

OpenGov

Weave is the all-in-one customer communication and engagement platform for small business. From the first phone call to the final invoice and every touchpoint in between, Weave connects the entire customer journey. Weave’s software solutions transform how local businesses attract, communicate with and engage customers to grow their business. The first Utah company to join Y Combinator, Weave has set the bar for Utah startup achievement & work culture. In the past year, Weave has been included in the Forbes Cloud 100, Inc. 5000 fastest-growing companies in America, and Glassdoor Best Places to Work. To learn more, visit www.getweave.com/newsroom/

With over 15,000 customers, Weave was the first Utah company to join Y Combinator and has received several renowned awards, including the Fortune 100 Best Companies 2019, Forbes 2019 Cloud 100 and Forbes 2020 Next Billion-Dollar Startups, the 2019 and 2020 Inc. 5000 fastest-growing companies in America, Glassdoor’s 2019 and 2020 Best Places to Work and 2019 Top CEOs.

Weave

Grab operates a mobile technology platform that integrates city transportation for driver-partners and customers in South East Asia. It offers services like GrabTaxi, GrabCar, GrabHitch, GrabShare, GrabCoach, GrabShuttle, GrabShuttle Plus, GrabFamily, JustGrab, GrabNow, and GrabRental. 

Grab offers services in Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Myanmar. Anthony Tan and Tan Hooi Lng founded it in 2012 and is headquartered in Singapore. It has additional offices in Seattle, Beijing, Bangalore, Jakarta, and Vietnam.

Grab

Parklet, we believe that a company's most valuable and scarce resource is its people. Organizations that drive decision making by optimizing the value of their people will be successful. We are empowering people centric decision making by writing software that understands your organization and helps you focus on what matters most.

Parklet

NexTravel empowers businesses to have true ownership over their end-to-end booking experience. By providing simple and transparent solutions for our clients to set travel policies, track spend, and build in-depth reports, our clients can enjoy business travel without the complexities, hidden costs and time-consuming manual requirements. 

NexTravel ensures the safety of business travelers with their in-house support team, available 24/7/365 by web, mobile, email or SMS.

NexTravel

Darian Shirazi

San Francisco, California, United States, North America

Annouced Date	Organization Name	Funding Round	Money Raised
Jul 18, 2023	Resend	Seed Round - Resend	3.0M
Sep 11, 2023	Co:Helm	Seed Round - Anterior	3.2M
May 16, 2024	Leya	Seed Round - Leya	10.5M
Jul 24, 2024	rift	Seed Round - rift	5.0M

Annouced Date	Organization Name	Funding Round	Investor Name	Money Raised
May 14, 2024	Sona	Series A - Sona	-	27.5M
Jun 20, 2024	Gynger	Series A - Gynger	-	20.0M
Jul 08, 2024	Niva Technologies	Pre Seed Round - Niva	-	3.3M
Jul 24, 2024	-	Seed Round - vijil	-	6.0M

Darian Shirazi

General Partner

Darian Shirazi has made 47 investments. Their Latest investment was Seed Round - rift on Jul 24, 2024

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