| David Daneshgar | |
| Birth Name: | David Charles Daneshgar |
| Birth Date: | 18 June 1981 |
| Birth Place: | Westlake Village, California, U.S. |
| Alma Mater: | University of California, Berkeley University of Chicago Booth School of Business |
| Occupation: | Former professional poker player, co-founder of BloomNation |
David Charles Daneshgar (born June 18, 1981, in Westlake Village, California) is an American former professional poker player and the co-founder of BloomNation.com.
Daneshgar became interested in poker while attending the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught a pass/not pass course on the Statistics and Probability of Gaming. In 2006, he was ranked the #5 player in the world by Card Player magazine.[1] That year, he won major titles at Borgata Winter Poker Open,[2] Bicycle Casino Winnin' o' the Green,[3] and Bellagio Five Diamond World Poker Classic.[4] In 2008, he captured his first World Series of Poker bracelet and the $625,443 cash prize.[5], his total live tournament winnings exceed $2,400,000.[6]
In 2010, while attending the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Daneshgar co-founded the online floral marketplace BloomNation with Farbod Shoraka and Gregg Weisstein. He won a two-day poker tournament in Los Angeles that gave the company enough seed funding to create a beta version of the marketplace and establish proof of concept.[7] BloomNation has since raised $1.65 million in seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Spark Capital, Chicago Ventures and CrunchFund.[8]