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Daniel Gross

Angel · San Francisco, United States

#172 Investor Ranking 2026 Top 1% of investors worldwide

CEO at Cue

49 Portfolio companies+227% in 5 years
16 Unicorns
6 Decacorns
60 Investments
Jun 2026 Last investment
01 · Biggest holdings

Daniel Gross’ biggest current holdings.

Daniel Gross is a named shareholder in 3 companies. Dealroom estimates those stakes are worth about $1.1B in total — the disclosed percentage × each company’s latest valuation. The 3 biggest are below, each sized by that estimate.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 PerplexityEnterprise Software · Decacorn 4.5% $20.0B $900M
  2. 2 The Bot CompanyRobotics · Unicorn 4.5% $2.0B $90M
  3. 3 RetoolEnterprise Software · Unicorn 2% $3.2B $64M

Estimated value = Daniel Gross’ disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Daniel Gross also appears inside investor groups in ElevenLabs, Safe Superintelligence, Suno, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying shareholder registers on Dealroom →

02 · Exits

Daniel Gross’ biggest exits.

Portfolio companies that IPO’d or were acquired at $1B+, with the valuation recorded at exit and — for those still public — their value today. Exit events come from each company’s funding-round history; entry stage from Daniel Gross’ transaction record.

$23B IPO · 2025
Entered Series B+Now $82BHosting
$20B acquisition · 2025
Entered SeedSemiconductors
$5.2B IPO · 2021
Entered SeedNow $71MTransportation
$1.7B acquisition · 2025
Entered Series B+Enterprise Software
$1.0B acquisition · 2016
Entered SeedRobotics
03 · Portfolio analysis

Where Daniel Gross’ portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 49 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount
  1. USA44
  2. UK2
  3. India1
  4. Poland1
  5. Ukraine1
By sectorCount
  1. Enterprise Software24
  2. Media6
  3. Health4
  4. Jobs Recruitment4
  5. Marketing4
  6. Robotics4
  7. Energy2
  8. Fintech2
  9. Home Living2
  10. Hosting2
  11. Semiconductors2
  12. Transportation2
By stage enteredCount
  1. Seed22
  2. Series A19
  3. Series B+8
By growth stageCount
  1. Late Growth25
  2. Breakout Stage16
  3. Early Growth8
04 · Portfolio market map

Inside Daniel Gross’ portfolio.

The 48 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 49 tracked.

Cruise
Robotics
$850M
Groq
Semiconductors · Decacorn
$20B
Perplexity
Enterprise Software · Decacorn
$20B
CoreWeave
Hosting · Decacorn
$82B
Deel
Fintech · Decacorn
$17B
ElevenLabs
Media · Decacorn
$11B
Suno
Music · Unicorn
$5.4B
Gusto
Fintech
$9K
NewLimit
Health · Unicorn
$3.1B
MatX
Semiconductors · Unicorn
$2.0B
Magic
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$1.5B
Notion
Enterprise Software · Decacorn
$10B
Lattice
Jobs Recruitment · Unicorn
$3.0B
Embark Trucks
Transportation
$71M
The Bot Company
Robotics · Unicorn
$2.0B
Weights & Biases
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$1.7B
Loom
Media · Unicorn
$1.5B
Retool
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$3.2B
EvolutionaryScale
Health
$568M
Pika
Media
$470M
Medallion
Health
$172M
Socket
Security · Unicorn
$1.0B
AssemblyAI
Enterprise Software
$200M
Descript
Media
$550M
Klarity
Legal
$280M
Viktor
Enterprise Software
$300M
Streamlit
Enterprise Software
$800M
TripleByte
Telecom
$140M
Rivan Industries
Energy
$133M
Consensus
Enterprise Software
$119M
POLYWORK
Media
$112M
Prefect
Enterprise Software
$128M
Didero
Enterprise Software
$120M
Tolan
Media
$80M
Freed AI
Health
$120M
Matic
Home Living
$96M
Rain Industries
Robotics
$39M
Deepnote
Marketing
$80M
Keen IT Technologies
Education
$80M
Creatify AI
Marketing
$62M
Grid Status
Energy
$32M
Pulse AI
Enterprise Software
$16M
The Ticket Fairy
Marketing
$10M
Jace AI
Marketing
$12M
Induced AI
Enterprise Software
$9.2M
Bluedot
Enterprise Software
$5.0M
Espresso AI
Hosting
Buildship
Enterprise Software
05 · Portfolio founders

Where Daniel Gross’ portfolio founders come from.

88 founders across the 49 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.

LocationCount
  1. United States74
  2. United Kingdom4
  3. Germany2
  4. India2
  5. Sweden2
  6. Argentina1
  7. Australia1
  8. Spain1
UniversityCount
  1. Stanford University9
  2. Harvard University6
  3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology6
  4. University of California, Berkeley4
  5. University of Cambridge4
  6. Columbia University3
  7. Technion Israel Institute of Technology3
  8. University of Oxford3
  9. Archbishop Mitty High School2
  10. Indiana University Bloomington2
Previous companyCount
  1. Alphabet | Google12
  2. Meta6
  3. Microsoft4
  4. Quora4
  5. Intel Corporation3
  6. Intel NAND Memory Unit3
  7. Kensho Technologies3
  8. Harvard University2
  9. Hudson Ridge Asset Management2
  10. IBM2