Education
University of California, Berkeley.
University of California, Berkeley.
Yazdani founded Saba in 1997 and took the company public in 2000. Yazdani grew Saba into a United States$100+ million business, making one of the fastest growing software companies in the world. Yazdani began investing in 1989 and officially founded his investment firm, Signatures Capital, in 2006.
In 2014, Yazdani was ranked #1 out of 2000 angel investors in a report by Central Bank Insights as having the most successful track record for investing in companies that received follow-on funding.
Yazdani started Saba in 1997. Saba Learning was the first product.
Since then, the product line has integrated and expanded into a unified suite of People Cloud Applications delivered as software-as-a-service. Under his leadership, Saba acquired THINQ Learning Solutions in May 2005, Centra Software in 2006 and Pedagogue Solutions and Comartis in June 2011.
Through his personal and Signatures Capital investments, Yazdani"s portfolio includes Dropbox, Google, Uber, Bonobos, Bina, Salesforce.com, Klout, KISSmetrics, Qwiki, Webs.com, Masimo, Boticca, Clearspring, Atheer Labs, Nextbio, SoundHound, Adrise, and Blocks.
In 2014, Yazdani agreed to an Securities and Exchange Commission-negotiated "clawback" of United States dollar $2.5 million in earnings and bonuses to be reimbursed to Saba.
