Jerusalem to Y Combinator at Age 18
Born in Jerusalem, Daniel Gross was accepted into Y Combinator in 2010 at age 18, becoming one of the youngest founders in YC history. He founded search startup Greplin (later renamed Cue), raising funding from Sequoia Capital before Apple acquired Cue in 2013 for over $40 million.
Leading Machine Learning at Apple
At Apple, Gross led search and machine learning teams across iOS and macOS before joining Y Combinator in 2017 as a Partner, founding YC AI to back early deep learning startups.
AI Grant Partnership with Nat Friedman
Gross teamed with Nat Friedman to deploy hundreds of millions of dollars into frontier AI ventures, co-financing foundational compute clusters and backing market-defining AI labs.
