Daniel Gross is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Cue, led artificial intelligence efforts at Apple, served as a partner at Y-Combinator,[1] and is a notable technology investor in companies like Uber, Instacart, Figma, GitHub, Airtable, Rippling, CoreWeave, Character.ai, Perplexity.ai, and others.[2][3][4]
Time 100 has listed Gross as one of the "Most Influential People in AI".[5]
Career
Gross was born in Jerusalem, Israel in 1991.[6] In 2010, Gross was accepted into the Y Combinator program. At the time, he was the youngest founder ever accepted. Gross launched Greplin (later renamed Cue).[7]
In 2011 Forbes named Gross one of "30 Under 30" in the "Pioneers in Technology" category.[8] In 2012, Business Insider named Gross one of the "25 under 25" in Silicon Valley,[9] and in 2014, the site named him one of "30 under 30 Influential Young People in Tech".[10]
Cue
In 2010, Gross launched Greplin, a search engine designed to allow users to search online accounts (such as social media, email, and cloud storage) from one location without checking each individually. In 2011, Greplin raised $4 million from venture capital firm Sequoia Capital. At 19, Gross was one of Sequoia's youngest founders.[citation needed]
In 2012 the company renamed itself to "Cue" and launched additional predictive search features.[11] In 2013, Apple acquired Cue for an undisclosed amount reported to be between $40 million and $60 million.[12]
Y Combinator
In 2017, Gross joined Y Combinator as a partner, where he focused on artificial intelligence, creating a dedicated "YC AI" program.[13]
Pioneer
In August 2018, Gross created Pioneer, an early-stage, remote startup accelerator and fund, focused on finding talented and ambitious people around the world.[14]
AI Grant & Andromeda
In 2021, Gross and Nat Friedman started making significant investments in the AI space,[15] as well as running a program that gives $250,000 in funding to AI-native companies called AI Grant.[16] In 2023, they deployed the Andromeda Cluster, a supercomputer cluster consisting of 2,512 H100s GPUs for use by startups in their portfolio.[17][18]
References
- ^ Seibel, Michael (January 10, 2017). "Welcome Daniel, Nicole, Stephanie, Steven and Tatyana!" (Press release). Y Combinator. Retrieved October 12, 2018.
- ^ Cowen, Tyler. "A Conversation on Talent".
- ^ "Billion-Dollar AI Venture Fund Offers Elusive Nvidia Chips to Win Deals". The Information. Retrieved 2023-11-23.
- ^ CoreWeave. "CoreWeave Announces Secondary Sale of $642 Million". www.prnewswire.com. Retrieved 2024-01-30.
- ^ "The 100 Most Influential People in AI 2023". Time. Retrieved 2023-11-22.
- ^ "Daniel Gross: Catalyzing Success". Farnam Street. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
- ^ Yasmine, Fatema (4 March 2011). "Greplin Founder Daniel Gross on his amazing story behind building the company [Interview]". The Next Web. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
- ^ Barret, Victoria. "30 Under 30: Technology". Forbes.
- ^ Shontell, Alyson. "25 And Under: 25 Hot Young Stars In Silicon Valley Tech". Business Insider.
- ^ Barret, Victoria. "30 Under 30: Technology". Business Insider.
- ^ Gannes, Liz. "Greplin Recasts Itself as Cue, an Intelligent Personal Assistant App". AllThingsD.
- ^ Tsotsis, Alexia (October 3, 2013). "Apple Buys Cue For Over $40M To Compete With Google Now". TechCrunch. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
- ^ "Y Combinator has a new AI track, and wants startups building 'robot factory' tech to apply".
- ^ "Wanted: 'Lost Einsteins.' Please Apply". Retrieved 2018-10-12.
- ^ "nfdg". nfdg.com. Retrieved 2023-11-22.
- ^ "Billion-Dollar AI Venture Fund Offers Elusive Nvidia Chips to Win Deals". June 20, 2023.
- ^ "Andromeda Cluster". June 20, 2023.
- ^ "Nvidia GPUs are so hard to get that rich venture capitalists are buying them for the startups they invest in". June 13, 2023.