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Daniel Gross is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Cue (search engine). In 2013, Cue was sold to Apple where Gross led machine learning efforts until joining Y Combinator as a partner in January 2017. Gross is also a technology angel investor and contributor to the technology news site TechCrunch.
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Background
Gross was born in Jerusalem, Israel. In 2010, Gross was accepted in to the Y Combinator program. At the time, he was the youngest founder ever accepted.
After iterating through multiple products, Gross launched Greplin (later renamed Cue) with co-founder Robby Walker.
In 2011, Forbes named Gross one of 30 under 30 Pioneers in Technology. In the same year, Business Insider named Gross one of the top 25 stars in Silicon Valley. In 2012, Forbes again named Gross one of 30 under 30 Pioneers in Technology. In 2014, Business Insider named Gross one of 30 under 30 “Influential Young People in Tech”.
Cue
In 2010, Gross launched Greplin, a search engine for personal content. Greplin operated by linking together various online accounts into one search experience. For example, a customer could search their Facebook, Gmail and Dropbox accounts from one unified service without checking each individually.
In 2011, Greplin raised $4 million in funding from venture capital firm Sequoia Capital. Gross was one of Sequoia's youngest founders at the time. They introduced a premium offering at $5 a month, which allowed customers to link enterprise-facing services like Salesforce.
In 2012 the company renamed itself to “Cue” and launched an additional predictive search features. In addition to search, Cue offered customers an automatic and intelligent agenda of their day. This included files, emails, addresses, phone numbers and more that were deemed algorithmically relevant. Cue was a similar product to Google Now.
In 2013, Apple acquired Cue for an undisclosed amount.
Y-Combinator
In 2017, Gross joined Y Combinator, where he focuses on Artificial Intelligence.