Daniel Gross
Daniel Gross is an Israeli-American entrepreneur and investor who currently works on AI products within Meta's superintelligence group, having joined in July 2025. He co-founded the AI startup Safe Superintelligence Inc. with Ilya Sutskever and Daniel Levy in June 2024, and previously co-founded the search engine Cue, which Apple acquired in 2013. He is best known for his early-stage venture investing alongside Nat Friedman through their firm NFDG and the AI Grant program, backing companies such as Uber, Figma, Perplexity AI, and CoreWeave, and for building the Andromeda GPU compute cluster for AI startups. He also served as a partner at Y Combinator, where he founded its AI program.
“I think he played a really big role in kind of getting the two companies to work nicely together, Wang said.”
Source→“I think Zuck's had a lonely stretch... it's even harder to find someone you can truly trust.”
Source→“His acqui-hire of... on one side Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman and on the other side Alexander Wang.”
Source→“It was Daniel Gross, who, if you know of Daniel now at Meta, he started the AI batch at YC back when we went through in 2017. And it was me and like five other companies and we got, you know, $100,000 in GPU credits.”
Source→“I was really fortunate at Lightspeed to collaborate closely with Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross before they went over to Meta.”
Source→“Daniel Gross, Nat Friedman and like smart money was immediately behind him.”
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